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July 3, 2003

Macho American Fashion?

If this is supposed to be "American tough guy/macho," then I want to know what American pretty boy is.

Furthermore:

And in what was surely the first fashion show to treat combat as performance art, Bernhard Willhelm, a designer from Belgium, had beefy models in commando gear scramble over tabletops and explode balloons.

"I enjoyed the reaction of people," said Mr. Willhelm, who had opposed the Iraq war. "They said, `These guys really look like they could take Saddam's palaces.' "

...and...

Though Mr. Watanabe called his show "Lovely Army" and played the theme song from "The Bridge on the River Kwai," a movie depicting the harsh treatment of British soldiers in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, he insisted in a telephone interview from his office in Tokyo that he was not making an antiwar statement. Rather, he was fascinated by the construction of military uniforms. (via NYTimes).

Not much more needs to be said, does it? I'm trying to find a copy of the NYTimes photograph that was in the paper this morning-- it illustrates it all beautifully...

Posted by callalillie at July 3, 2003 9:00 AM | WTF?