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- Digging through our closets: Marijuana's new high life in popular culture
Before heading out to the holiday sales, gift receipt in hand, get some fashion inspiration from some of our readers' favorite features from 2009:
Barneys New York in Beverly Hills had its $78 "Hashish" candles in Jonathan Adler pots, Los Angeles had its THC Expo hemp and art show, Showtime had its fifth season of "Weeds." This was a big year for pot.
"The stoner is the new drunk," said Robert Thompson, a professor of television and pop culture at the University of Syracuse S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, in an August article.
In the article, Times staff writer Adam Tschorn talked about our culture's newly developing acceptance (and, dare we say, obsession) with weed, as fashion, films, TV and politicians all began to embrace it, despite its illegality under federal law. Read the full article here.
Do you agree with marijuana "marching into the mainstream"? Or are there bigger implications to a Cheech and Chong comeback? Tell us below.
-- Kelsey Ramos
Photo credit: Jon Krause / For The Times
Переслать - Digging through our closets: Photoshopped to perfection
Before heading out to the holiday sales, gift receipt in hand, get some fashion inspiration from some of our readers' favorite features from 2009.In April, Complex magazine accidentally posted a photo of Kim Kardashian on its website -- accidental because it showed Kardashian before her thighs, arms and waist had been digitally sculpted with Photoshop.
It spurred a story by Times staff writer Jeannine Stein about the immense power of digital alterations to help people look their best and to set impossibly high standards for beauty -- and how prevalent Photoshopping images really is. Read the details at the end of this story about all the changes photographer and retoucher Michael Kubeisy made on the photo above of Debbie Johnson.
What do you think about the rampant use of Photoshop to alter images in the public arena? Tell us in the comments section below.
-- Kelsey Ramos
Photo: Photographer and retoucher Michael Kubeisy Photoshopped this image of Debbie Johnson to show how portraits can be altered. Photo credit: Digital-Ops
Переслать - Digging through our closets: Designers' shoes going to the extreme
Before heading out to the holiday sales, gift receipt in hand, get some fashion inspiration from some of our readers' favorite features from 2009.We love shoes so much we dedicated a whole issue to it in November. But designers, with their creativity and edginess, can take it to a whole new level and this year on the runways, they did: with kicks boasting extreme platforms, animal-inspired shapes (like Alexander McQueen's armadillo-like snakeskin boots, above), and pin-thin-heeled boots.
Read the full story by fashion critic Booth Moore, and click through more photos of the daring designs here.
-- Kelsey Ramos
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Shoe designers talk about their obsession with footwearPhoto: A model presents an outfit by British designer Alexander McQueen during ready-to-wear spring-summer 2010 fashion show in October 2009 in Paris. Credit: Francois Guillot / AFP / Getty Images
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