From collages to assemblages, the Dadaist art movement that thrived in Zurich and Berlin in the early 20th century, eventually reaching New York City, was anarchic in nature, shirking reason, tradition, logic and cultural standards of aesthetics, instead prioritizing intuition, rebellion, and chaos and eventually leading the way for surrealism and social realism.
We’ve all seen our fair share of trompe l’oeil tees — the one with a screen-printed skeleton, the tuxedo one, the one with a multi-strand pearl necklace, and so forth.
If you’ve ever smoothed a bright lipstick onto chapped or cracked lips, then you know how tragic the results can be.
Talk about one man’s trash being another man’s treasure.
Last year, when its neon pink, orange, green, and yellow handbags became a must-have among urban trendsetters, the Cambridge Satchel Company experienced an unexpected tipping point moment.
Walking the line between pretty and piquant, demure and dangerous, soft and subversive, Agent Provocateur’s lingerie tends to combine ladylike and exquisitely sophisticated materials like scalloped French lace with piquant elements like straps arranged in a bondage-inspired fashion and strips of mesh positioned to offer glimpses of skin in unexpected places.
Shortly after the Chrysler Building was erected in New York City, with its linear skyscraper silhouette and ornamental spire, replete with vaulted arches adorned with triangular shapes, Miami Beach area saw its own landscape change to accommodate its own Art Deco-inspired buildings and homes.
They’ve taken us to Germany, Russia, Mexico, Holland, Spain, Switzerland, India, Hong Kong, and France and, now, the globe-trotting, wanderlust-stricken folks at OPI have embarked on a journey back to Europe — this time to Central Europe, with a particular focus on Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Austria.
Forget Earth Day — it’s been Earth Week over at the Sicka Than Average headquarters!
Dry hair is my beauty Achilles’ heel — though, admittedly, it’s a problem that I largely brought upon myself via a decade of dyeing and highlighting my hair, blowdrying and flat ironing obsessively, and washing my hair entirely too often, thereby stripping my scalp and strands of the natural oils needed for optimal hair health.
