I said: "No, it's a Chanel ad. I'm just putting up with it so I can watch the new Bill Cunningham video...."
Here's the Bill Cunningham. He's observing the color white this week — white, as a pre-Christmas phenomenon, in store windows, ladies' coats, and the spats of Tom Wolfe.
Here's Hillary returning late to the stage, which we found very funny — the disruption, even as she tries to be inconspicuous; the applause, like it's an achievement (or relief that she's okay); and the utterly minimal "sorry" (which we replayed 10 times and laughed every time).
ADDED: The ad is excellent, connecting perfume to the memory of a woman who is not there. A woman — in white — tosses the perfume bottle to the man and walks toward him, and then a woman in black crosses her path and the woman in white dissipates and disappears. Pretty impressive ad placement, considering that the Cunningham video is about the color white.
AND: Speaking of Hillary and fashion, can anyone explain the extremely frumpy knee-length coat she wore last night?
I'm especially curious about the big patch pockets at belly level. I understand that's something a woman might choose as an alternative to carrying a purse, but Hillary has people to hold her things for her, and the pockets are so crude — huge and stuck on and bulgy. If I had to guess, I'd say she wears clothes as a deflection of attention from her body. Don't even look at it. I'm only a head.It made me think of The Little King:
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DNC White Privilege.
At the Hillary clip I got an ad against Russ Feingold.
Real irony would have been an ad for Depends.
...the great old Zombies ad...
I suspect the Zombies thought* of it more as a song...
*to the extent that zombies can think anything other than brainssss...
Hillary's absence? All those painkillers make you constipated.
CGI now allows every ad to look like it takes place in some futuristic parking garage that forgot to include places to park. I get it for car and hardware ads, but for cologne?
The Chanel Woman in White looks like she is inside a giant Cuisinart, for God's sake.
Mechanical edges and angles can be given some soul -- see Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2. or The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even..
Not everything needs to take place in a close-up of a Norelco electric shaver.
I am Laslo.
Hillary probably needed to change her pants suit and required her body woman's help pull off the old one and pull the new one up over all the surplus white flesh.
Stars Wars redux. She has the persona of Jabba the Hut with a captive Princess Huma.
"If I had to guess, I'd say she wears clothes as a deflection of attention from her body. Don't even look at it. I'm only a head."
Doubt it. That head has a face.
One pocket holds her colostomy bag.
I have not watched a lot of Hillary clips, but that side-to-side penguin wobble thing that she did when taking the microphone looks too familiar. The bulky suit adds to the effect.
I am embarrassed to be of the "baby boomer" generation - Sanders & Clinton both seem to be caricatures of our generation.
Hillary's garb is starting to look a lot like Mao's.
"If I had to guess, I'd say she wears clothes as a deflection of attention from her body. Don't even look at it. I'm only a head."
Althouse Post on Hillary's Floating Head..
I remember things.
I am Laslo.
Regarding her lateness, Bernie probably left the toilet seat up. Don't make too much of her lateness, or there will be more rhetoric about the war on women.
"...the great old Zombies ad... I suspect the Zombies thought* of it more as a song..."
LOL. I just noticed that mistake.
"Althouse Post on Hillary's Floating Head."
Thanks for remembering that.
"I'm especially curious about the big patch pockets at belly level."
She's finally figured out how to carry two devices.
alan marcus noticed what I noticed- Hillary has an odd gait coming back to the podium
"can anyone explain the extremely frumpy knee-length coat she wore last night?"
The Secret Service insisted Hillary adopt a wearable airbag. These devices are designed to deploy in the event of a fall and protect senior citizen's fragile hip bones, thus preventing a life-changing injury.
The "SORRY" reminded me of Tina Fey's SNL character Gilly.
http://youtu.be/SoR4LlOCmI0
Benghazi? SORRY!
Classified information on a private email server? SORRY!
Sliming Genifer Flowers, Monica Lwinsky, Kathleen Willey? SORRY!
Libya chaos? SORRY!
Do women really do that - wear clothes to defect attention to her head?
You've overlooked the obvious -- it's a bath robe and she's in her dotage, imagining she going to run the country.
"If I had to guess, I'd say she wears clothes as a deflection of attention from her body. Don't even look at it" That can't be true, since we just read about a cool artists who was so attracted to her that she made cool pictures of her. From a slightly different angle, a cynical cynic might say that that everything she does is defection: every word, every hear style, every utterance -- a deflection from the truth, in the interest of a consuming lust for power.
It (the coat) smoothes out the gravity-afflicted caboose.
In the future Hillary's head will be on a shelf with Nixon's.
Consensus at our house-- The grey, ragged look shows she's a true worker, a man of the people, the candidate of the proletariat who will toil side by side with them on the collective farm.
Meanwhile look at Bernie in his suit and tie! Clearly a tool of "Big Wall Street."
Hill knows her audience.
You all know what happened to the floating head who wished he was something else.
We,You do, don't you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEMB6y2IdkU
John Henry
Bill Cunningham observes and reports. He's likely the last reporter and/or decent human being left at NYT.
I can understand choosing longer jackets/sweaters to cover a pear shape, but the fringes are an odd choice. Do you suppose she makes her own clothing choices, or does she have fashion consultants? The problem with fashion is that those style choices on the fringe only work if you are young and cute. They do not work on the old or on plain people. The old and the plain have to stick with simple, classic lines and colors.
I guess it's okay to criticize what a woman is wearing?
She looks like she poked her head out the smoke hole of a yurt.
Deflection of attention to hillary's clothes is necessary, when what she is saying is such utter crap. Still, Hillary will win the election, and God help the world when she does.
Deep pockets.
She is wearing a wool Shalwar kameez with a single pocket for a single "smart" phone.
The pocket contains her insulin injectors.
Standing Ovation for catching "The Little King" look.
As Dennis Miller once quipped: "Stop me before I reference again."
Gilly was my first thought, as well.
My second thought was of Al Gore and that weird stunt where he walked over to stare at W during one of the debates. What a weird and upstaging thing to do to just walk out throwing your arms out (not seen in this particular clip, but in stills I found elsewhere) in the middle of another candidate's question. Wouldn't it have been less rude and upstaging for her to wait until either the question or Bernie's answer was finished?
If she was going for the grandma look, it worked.
She dressed like my liberal Mom did in 1974. It's an homage to her mentors.
Never have and never will watch a democrat debate, but are all of the questions asked like this one to Bernie Sanders was? Yeesh, talk about a wheel-house/hit it right outa the park softball question.
And Grandma in her bathrobe and I in my cap, had just settled down for a long winter's nap....
Her bizarre tardiness is infinitely more interesting than her house coat. Where the heck was she, and why was she late? Did she fall down? Doze off? Forget where she was?
The ad writes itself.
Juxtapose her long, awkward vacancy at the podium with her old 3AM phone-call ad (when she was EIGHT years younger), followed by footage of the bloodshed in _______ (insert Benghazi, Fort Hood, Chattanooga, San Bernardino, or ISIS's most recent terror attack) and cap it off with a few repeats of her cookie-jar "sorry." BAM. That would be the only commercial the GOP candidate would need to defeat her. Or at least, it seems so to me. This means, of course, that the GOP will never run such an ad, assuming the nominee is the establishment's pick.
Following after a messianic President who has left 70 % of the country saying we are headed in the wrong direction comes the hardworking, charm-free (like Richard Nixon) Hillary. With the same unpopular message. Two charming con-men slip out the door leaving Grandmother of the Year to pay the bill.
Enlarge the photo and look right above her right butt cheek. It's a Depends panty line. It takes longer to change Depends than just a normal pee. That's why she was late back to her lectern after the break and her Mao Tse Tung inspired tunic was designed to hide her Depends panty lines. Old people pee their pants quite often and she is definitely old. In my mind I keep contrasting Vladimir Putin, virile, shirtless on horseback, with a vision of Hillary changing her Depends in the Oval Office. Definitely not a happy vision..........
Least sincere "Sorry" since Bluto smashed the guitar in Animal House.
If I had a sofa that looked like Hillary, I would have donated it to Good Will a long time ago....
Hillary Clinton, who denies having horns, is a congenital liar.
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