Comments on: Wicked City http://hautemacabre.com/2009/06/wicked-city/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:05:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Clint Catalyst http://hautemacabre.com/2009/06/wicked-city/comment-page-1/#comment-1975 Clint Catalyst Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:26:37 +0000 http://hautemacabre.com/?p=5709#comment-1975 Stern's a major periodical in the land o' Krauts. As in: Maaaay-jah. I lived there a year, and--since I'm a dinosaur and all--was fortunate insofar as timing goes: visited the Wall when Commie Sutra was still the prevailing 'tude; then around two months later, when my 'host mom' informed me one (of many) truant afternoons "Die Wand geht!" I jumped a train and headed to Berlin, hand-held pick-axe in tow. (Yo!) Unfortunately, the pieces I gathered as "souvenirs" were barely larger than thumbnails...but the experience of seeing throngs of East-Berliners drunk on Pilsner and boundless freedom as they danced, sprouted tears, and sang while passing through the former barricade? So Geil, daß... Not unlike der Stern, a slicker, sophisticated version of Time or Life: where artist profiles are prominently displayed among its pages, fashion editorials are interspersed with stodgy news pieces, and shots of Nadja (or any of the other svelte mega-models from their terrain) with breastsicles exposed are par for the course, not the exception. Imagine: if only *one* such publication existed in the States -- distributed widely, decorating waiting rooms of doctor's offices... Nina Ricci and Mario Testino would be household names, not Whomever-The-Effs from some reality TV show (a phrase that should always appear in quotation marks, as far as I'm concerned) with their 8 offspring. The notion seems about as revolutionary as having models on "our" fashion magazine covers again! IMAGINE. THAT... Stern’s a major periodical in the land o’ Krauts. As in: Maaaay-jah. I lived there a year, and–since I’m a dinosaur and all–was fortunate insofar as timing goes: visited the Wall when Commie Sutra was still the prevailing ‘tude; then around two months later, when my ‘host mom’ informed me one (of many) truant afternoons “Die Wand geht!” I jumped a train and headed to Berlin, hand-held pick-axe in tow. (Yo!)

Unfortunately, the pieces I gathered as “souvenirs” were barely larger than thumbnails…but the experience of seeing throngs of East-Berliners drunk on Pilsner and boundless freedom as they danced, sprouted tears, and sang while passing through the former barricade?

So Geil, daß…

Not unlike der Stern, a slicker, sophisticated version of Time or Life: where artist profiles are prominently displayed among its pages, fashion editorials are interspersed with stodgy news pieces, and shots of Nadja (or any of the other svelte mega-models from their terrain) with breastsicles exposed are par for the course, not the exception.

Imagine: if only *one* such publication existed in the States — distributed widely, decorating waiting rooms of doctor’s offices…

Nina Ricci and Mario Testino would be household names, not Whomever-The-Effs from some reality TV show (a phrase that should always appear in quotation marks, as far as I’m concerned) with their 8 offspring.

The notion seems about as revolutionary as having models on “our” fashion magazine covers again!

IMAGINE.
THAT…

]]> By: Stella http://hautemacabre.com/2009/06/wicked-city/comment-page-1/#comment-1954 Stella Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:15:45 +0000 http://hautemacabre.com/?p=5709#comment-1954 Haha, Stern means star in German, that's all :) Haha, Stern means star in German, that’s all :)

]]> By: Vasquaz http://hautemacabre.com/2009/06/wicked-city/comment-page-1/#comment-1951 Vasquaz Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:21 +0000 http://hautemacabre.com/?p=5709#comment-1951 Gah! I've wanted something like the first photo in years! And, of course, those Nina Ricci boots. *sigh* Gah! I’ve wanted something like the first photo in years!

And, of course, those Nina Ricci boots. *sigh*

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