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The great Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani died yesterday at the age of 93. He opened his self-named house in 1960 and pretty quickly found a client base of women looking for glamorous outfits that were striking but not wacky or of-the-moment. This overview of a 2010 Valentino retrospective done in Brisbane gives a brief glimpse of three of his most iconic designs: The dress Jackie O wore when she married Onassis. The dress Julia Roberts wore when she won the Oscar

I saw What To Wear at BAM on Jan 16, 2026. It's a chamber opera written about twenty years ago with a libretto by Richard Foreman and music by Michael Gordon. It's a rock opera but unlike Tommy, which leans more towards rock, this one leans more towards opera. It was a lot of fun, it knew exactly what it was and what it was doing, and it was only 75 minutes long. To give you a little perspective, Tristan and Isolde are still hollering at each other at the 75-minute mark, th