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We Brits spend our entire childhood fighting to free ourselves of uniforms, but for next season, menswear designers are hell-bent on shoving us back into them.
It dates to 1932, when Will Curtis, a landscape designer with a bent for natural plantings, saw an undeveloped country parcel on Hemenway Road.
But he claimed to be the first modern designer to use bent wood, and his chairs may cause some reconfiguring of the origins of modernist design.
Just as New York erred on the side of good taste, London designers seem hell-bent on playing with notions of bad taste.
His hero was Buckminster Fuller, a futurist architect and designer, who he says "bent my twig" with what Brand calls a "psychedelic version of engineering".
Sugar Boutique (3703 Butler Street; 412-681-5100; www.comarboutique.com) spotlights wares from independent and emerging fashion designers, with a strong bent toward the local.
And Dodie Rosekrans, the durable San Francisco socialite and heiress, was saying, as a younger gentleman piloted her around the Viktor & Rolf retrospective at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile, that what first attracted her to Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, the Dutch designers with a sculptural bent and bloated ambitions, was that "they just seemed to have the right lines".
Some of L.A.'s most relevant fashion designers have a goth bent, Rick Owens and L'wren Scott among them.
Over the Japanese designer's head arched bent wooden slats, an installation by the Belgian artist Arne Quinze.
