Chiiz Volume 7 :Fashion Photography
When people stand in front of the mirror to have a good long look at themselves, they always hope to see a better reflection of themselves than what they have seen previously and with all this, they have grown conscious of how they appear and how comfortable they are with what they wear.Not only their clothes, but also their comfort level, express the sense of style and their conformity to the outer world.In this issue, what we have focussed on might not be the mainstream fashion and people might not get the hype that revolves around the fashion world but what we have here is something that is responsible for all that we have achieved so far in this industry. Be it natural beauty by Lynn Theisen, backstage brilliance by Ishaan Nair, or the street fashion by Rohit Arora which is now gaining popularity among the more prominent photographers.The interview with John Rawson is an eye opener. He is has been through it all andhis experiences form a great lesson for all of us. The series of Roshini Kumar with Suhail Nayyar is also a masterpiece in itself which is a true symbol of comfortable fashion statements. Rod Klein and Jorge Gonzalez’s underwater fashion photographs present an altogether different approach to see things.
When people stand in front of the mirror to have a good long look at themselves, they always hope to see a better reflection of themselves than what they have seen previously and with all this, they have grown conscious of how they appear and how comfortable they are with what they wear.Not only their clothes, but also their comfort level, express the sense of style and their conformity to the outer world.In this issue, what we have focussed on might not be the mainstream fashion and people might not get the hype that revolves around the fashion world but what we have here is something that is responsible for all that we have achieved so far in this industry. Be it natural beauty by Lynn Theisen, backstage brilliance by Ishaan Nair, or the street fashion by Rohit Arora which is now gaining popularity among the more prominent photographers.The interview with John Rawson is an eye opener. He is has been through it all andhis experiences form a great lesson for all of us. The series of Roshini Kumar with Suhail Nayyar is also a masterpiece in itself which is a true symbol of comfortable fashion statements. Rod Klein and Jorge Gonzalez’s underwater fashion photographs present an altogether different approach to see things.
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High Art (1998)<br />
Movie Review<br />
Duration: 1hr 41mins<br />
IMDB Rating: 6.7/10<br />
Released: 1998<br />
Written and Directed: Lisa Cholodenko<br />
Making her debut through HIGH ART, Lisa Cholodenko,<br />
more or less, gives the audience what the trailer promises.<br />
The trailer commits Ambition, Seduction, Sacrifice and<br />
other career moves which the movie fulfils to a great extent. Lisa’s<br />
career hasn’t been much productive as she directed just four films<br />
in all, though, her debut movie won 7 awards and made it to 18<br />
nominations. Let’s have a look at its storyline and review the cast,<br />
crew and the message of the movie.<br />
Story: High Art is about an assistant editor Syd who is an ambitious<br />
woman. The movie is about Syd’s discovery of her sexuality: from<br />
living with her boyfriend to her falling in love with a lesbian<br />
photographer Lucy Berliner. Lucy Berliner stopped working 10<br />
years ago and lives with her German girlfriend Greta. Syd revives<br />
Lucy from her hibernating period and persuades her to work for<br />
FRAME, the company Syd works for. Lucy agrees to it. It is while<br />
working on the cover for FRAME do these two women discover<br />
their love for each other. High Art is not just about love, seduction<br />
and ambition, but also about drugs, addiction and lot more.<br />
Review: Featuring Radha Mitchell as Syd and Ally Sheddy as<br />
Lucy Berliner, High Art is a romantic drama portraying a lesbian’s<br />
sexuality, relationships, ambition, addiction and what not. Syd is a<br />
career driven enthusiastic woman who is trying to find appreciation<br />
in her job. She meets Lucy Berliner who is a retired photographer<br />
living upstairs. Syd seems to be bored of her life and her relationships<br />
and Lucy is already lost.<br />
Lucy’s life is a mess as well. She lives with her lover Greta who is<br />
a washed out German actress. Both of them are heroin addicts,<br />
especially Greta who rarely is in her senses. At one hand, Greta’s<br />
words reveal her love for Lucy, but, on the other hand, they reveal<br />
her lost state of mind as well: “I’m Greta. I live for Lucy. I mean I live<br />
here with Lucy.” Greta become jealous of Lucy’s friendly relationship<br />
with Syd and loses control. She even puts her life at risk. Likewise,<br />
Syd’s boyfriend James is critical of Lucy and is afraid of Syd getting<br />
laid with her.<br />
Lucy, on the other hand, starts getting attracted to Syd. On their<br />
weekend trip, they get intimate with each other and Syd confesses<br />
her love for Lucy. Lucy seizes their intimacy and Syd’s beauty<br />
in a photograph and offers the same to Syd for the cover she was<br />
doing for FRAME. Syd is afraid at first, to make her personal life<br />
public, but, later on submits Lucy’s work to her boss Dominique.<br />
She receives a lot of admiration at work. Lucy, on the other hand<br />
is tensed with her situation with Greta and then her addiction. She<br />
decides to move out.<br />
Lucy’s mother walks away from her when she tells her about her<br />
situation. She says, “I have a drug problem and a love issue. Or<br />
maybe, I have a love problem and a drug issue. I don’t know.” In her<br />
weak moment, she surrenders her inner-self to her mother, but, her<br />
mother walks away. Apparently, it seems she had a drug problem<br />
and a love issue, after all.<br />
High Art highlights lesbian intimacy and seduction along with drug<br />
addiction, through the intimacy does not have much of nudity. Rated<br />
6.7 by IMDb, the movie was provided with “R” certificate and below<br />
seventeen kids were allowed only under a parental supervision. The<br />
movie did well on the silver screen but could have been a little more<br />
relatable to the audience had it been that Syd’s character was a little<br />
more refined.<br />
The characters, overall, were fine and the story brought out a new<br />
concept in its time. Greta’s character was well-portrayed as she<br />
represented drug-addiction in the best way possible. Her addiction<br />
makes her forget things and lose track of time. All in all, Lisa’s Greta<br />
is what the younger generation needs to learn from.<br />
Meenal Singh<br />
meenal@chiiz.com<br />
Meenal Singh is an undergraduate student of Miranda House, University of<br />
Delhi. She aspires to be a lecturer in English Literature. Meenal wishes to<br />
fight for the equality of women worldwide through the power of her words.<br />
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