These are the final two looks from the collection of this year's Project Runway winner, Christian. As I was clicking through the images on my computer, I actually gasped out loud when I got to the first one. You really need to see the whole collection
(which I will refrain from including here) in order to appreciate the incredible drama of this conclusion. The feathers. Wow.
What a great book. I'm not quite done yet, but this sentence especially moved me:Act, Zachary Martin Glass, when and where you want to, since you feel you must, but do it with all your might.
It feels very timely.
Meryl Streep's performance in The Devil Wears Prada. I rewatched this movie the other day, and her portrayal of Miranda Priestly is just so chilling. There's this moment near the end of the movie where (spoiler alert) she has this sort of breakdown. She removes her glasses for a few moments, and it's like this huge wall has come down, and we see her for what she is: a tired, ambitious, lonely woman, who in spite of her selfishness genuinely wants to be a good mother. The glasses are a physical manifestation of power, her tower from which she looks down on the rest of the world. What's even more interesting about this choice, is that I read an interview with Meryl Streep once where she said that she recently decided she wasn't going to act with contact lenses ever again. She felt that the lens over her eye removed her further from the camera, and muted (to the slightest degree) her performance. So now, you'll notice, all of the characters she plays wear glasses.
