Archive for November, 2009
Why Dior is a more important designer than Chanel
Shortly after Christian Dior premiered his spring/summer collection in 1947, the editor of Harper’s Bazaar approached the designer, shocked, and said, “Why, Mr Dior, it’s such a new look.” The name stuck. As the above graph - which shows the number of dresses by different 20th-century designers on display at the V&A - indicates, Mr [...]
The world’s largest buildings - in ‘Albert Halls’
In 1967, the same year John Lennon said he knew “how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall”, the Boeing Company started work on another large hall, in Washington. The Everett Factory, where Boeing builds its aeroplanes, is so large that, were it possible to fill it with multiple Albert Halls, 153 would [...]
Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing?
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This is the graph the record industry doesn’t want you to see.
It shows the fate of the three main pillars of music industry revenue - recorded music, live music, and PRS revenues (royalties [...]
Are computers outmanoeuvring TVs in the living room?
The TV industry may long have been trying to fight off the predatory might of YouTube and other web-based distractions, but there was always one trump card it held up its sleeve: it was a damn sight nicer watching video on that big black box in the corner of the room. No longer.
As the above [...]
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Over the course of its 97-year history, the British Board of Film Classification has classified 65, 770 films. Here’s our attempt to condense that vast and intriguing history into a single page. (”The gradual retreat of British prudishness”, you might [...]
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