Asked Friday to show the threatening e-mail messages that she or Weir had received regarding the fur costume, Modlin said she had deleted them.
PAGE A14 OBITUARIES BRUCE CONNER, 74 An artist internationally admired for his haunting, surrealistic sculptures and groundbreaking avant-garde films, his assemblages from women's nylon stockings, parts of furniture, broken dolls, fur, costume jewelry, and photographs were a vehement rejection of the consumerist spirit of mainstream American society.
The Super Furry Animals closed its set by pausing a Welsh-accented pop song (with an unprintable title) for a 10-minute techno breakdown and then returning to the stage dressed in shaggy fur costumes.
Even before Gerda asks Einar to put on a ballet dress so that she can finish a Degas-like portrait of a young dancer, we see Einar backstage at the theatre, lovingly caressing the fur costumes and gazing in rapture at Ulla as she rehearses.
When manufacturing fur costumes based on students' designs, domestic and Kopenhagen Fur technicians communicate with each other continually and discuss various materials, dyeing and sewing technics for creative designs.
The business had been diversified into a labyrinth of corporations that handled contracts for couture, ready-to-wear, faux furs, costume design, maternity fashions, the children's wear, prom dresses, accessories, and other projects, many unrealized, including a foundation.
About 48,000 people are expected to haul everything they need to survive — tents, water, fake-fur costumes — for this experiment in commerce-free, creatively wild community.
The actor's involvement is something you need to take on faith, since he spends most of the film covered in fur, a costume that suggests the bewitched prince in Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast" and makes Mr. Downey look like an immaculately groomed Shih Tzu.
Even plushies, those fetishists who enjoy donning fur animal costumes, provide comedic fodder.
The original fur-embellished costumes had a ritual feel that has been lost with Santo Loquasto's more generic dance design.
