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#1 2007-09-08 19:02:33
- Marc Grayson
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Secret World of Haute Couture
Check out the BBC documentary, "The Secret World of Haute Couture," broadcast in America on public broadcasting. It's a real hoot...
http://www.bbcprograms.com/pbs/catalog/Secret%20World%20of%20Haute%20Couture/hautecouturemain.html
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#2 2007-09-08 21:07:51
- Incroyable
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Re: Secret World of Haute Couture
Yes, I saw this program. My favorite was when Daphne Guiness remarked that she couldn't possibly wear or buy anything that had been advertised which is probably rather in tune with the forum mindset.
Though the ladies claim they are buying couture as a form of "investment", I don't doubt it's for status within their own social circle--not unlike how Internet Gentlemen boast how they got Lobbs for $4. It's like an inverse version of the Couture Game; the cheaper the better.
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#3 2007-09-08 22:04:13
- Marc Grayson
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Re: Secret World of Haute Couture
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#8 2009-04-11 19:17:37
- The_Shooman
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Re: Secret World of Haute Couture
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#9 2009-04-11 20:05:22
- Chris Kavanaugh
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Re: Secret World of Haute Couture
A museum up in Santa Barbara California displayed a chinese robe made of thousands of feathers, one of two known still in existence.
When I studied for my anthropology degree they talked of Trobriand islanders growing immense yams of no nutritional worth just to show off.
My BA thesis was itself the 'Anthropology of Anthropology' looking at THAT sub culture.
It was accepted, but not well received in some circles.
" Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashion. "
G.K. Chesterton
#11 2009-04-12 16:47:38
- Chris Kavanaugh
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Re: Secret World of Haute Couture
I understand incompletely- i think.
" Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashion. "
G.K. Chesterton