Is there no end to this woman’s talents? Well, in the case of Zaha Hadid, a grinding halt seems to have been reached with the eminent architect’s flirtations with fashion. Hadid has long pushed the boundaries of her considerable talents, with credible adventures into furniture design and oil painting, but her latest swimwear range for Viviona shows that sometimes even the deepest wells can run dry. — telegraph.co.uk
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When your architecture resembles your underwear and vica-versa your parameters are probably missing the data that distinguishes your ass from your context.
+++ jla-x
I wonder what Patrik Schumacher has to say ...
Architecture as garment! Makes me like her all the more. It does make you wonder what kind of word salad Mr. Schumacher could whip up to cover his ass with the intelligensia.
The notion of Schumacher's word salad recipe being applied to swimwear makes me giggle quite a bit. Nice one, Thayer.
In the image above the suit looks attractive. I wasn't able to find any other images on the Viviona website directly attributed to Zaha. Maybe it's just the one? Wish we could see it from the front.
Th Telegraph article once again raises the trope that Richard Meier requires his employees to all wear white shirt/black pants (aka dressing like waitstaff). Can someone finally either confirm this rumor as fact or put it to rest?!? It's kind of a big deal to me to know. My fantasies of implementing a rigorous office dress code would never go *that* far, but I would definitely disallow visible toes in my theoretical office. And swimsuits, even by Zaha.
Oh, oops, here they are. Just had to use Google.
+++ Donna "word salad"
Let's see Zaha in one of those.
But Miles, Thayer used word salad first on this thread. I generally only use it to describe Libeskind. I don't think Libeskind has ever designed a swimsuit. but, hey, he *might* have designed these flips flops!
Oh wait, those are from Eddie Van Halen. My mistake.
"Daniel Libeskind is the Eddie van Halen of architecture."
Thayer also has his word salad :o) except I don't even like the ingredients let alone the combination and the dressing.
Patrick Schumacher is an intelligent person, he makes sense and he is not obscure actually. ....but I disagree with him. Also he has also done himself a great disfavor by politicizing his perception of apolitical architecture and projecting around her-his architecture a stifling sense of fatalism. This is not to say that his thoughts are a 'word salad'.
As for the above, well, whether its Zaha or Zara...what difference does it make to you/us? For some, I suspect they're tapping into either a traditional "artist vs commercialism" rhetoric - or merely an anti-commercialism rhetoric- that they're not really bringing out to light. they use it as a subterranean source of their criticism but they don't or maybe even won't own up to it. why not?
@Fred, nothing wrong with an occasional bit of Eddie van Halen...
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