Alex sent me some information on Roe Ethridge. His work is pretty excellent, and it is encouraging that he is doing some of the stuff I am attempting, and that he is doing a pretty great job with that.
Lannie and Patsy Napping looks great. He seems to have some of this great sense of humor from William Wegman¹s early work. Roe Ethridge was born 1969.

SawExtreme Beauty at the Met today, and it was a tiny but good show. Packed, as expected on a Sunday. Good thing that the items were locked away behind glass, it felt like a bird exhibit at the AMNH. One thing that became very obvious again when looking at the work was that there are several not necessary even parallel worlds of style. It is a bit like Sushi not really being the food Japanese people eat. When watching Tampopo, it almost seems as if sushi did not exist in Japan. For some people in the west, Sushi is the embodiment of Japanese food. Extreme Beauty was like a presentation of sushi. Some of the pieces were from 1999 or 2000, but nobody would really wear them, unless they wanted to stage something very specific. (Ok, the name of the show is extreme beauty, and not H&M, the successful years) It just makes one wonder how much of the older clothing presented really participated in daily life. hmm...

PBS had some more of Sister Wendy and the American Collection. While the show is really great and very approachable and such a sweet feature, I really wondered what her husband would say to all this.
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