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| Opulence. Maybe there's something in the air of Paris that inspires it.<br><br>There's the proliferation of palais (petit or grand) for designers to show their collections in, the galleries filled with florid, lurid art, and the haute couture, of course, opulence cubed and then wrapped in duchesse satin for good measure. They all do something to designers, no matter how minimally minded.<br><br>It's certainly done something to Marc Jacobs. Compare and contrast the first Louis Vuitton collection he presented oh-so-quietly 16 years ago with the ball-busting extravaganza unveiled last Wednesday, part �Turn Back Time� video, part Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls<br><br>
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| It was an indulgent farewell to a house that has helped redefine the meaning of luxury goods in the 21st century. Indulgent for Jacobs, but also for the audience, a funereal feast for the eyes, Jacobs' all-black swansong. The Stephen Jones headdresses were inspired by Ziegfeld Follies and Cher's 1986 Oscars outfit<br>
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| Jacobs declared that the collection was obsessed with �pure adornment�, reasoning that �connecting with something on a superficial level is as honest as connecting with it on an intellectual level�. That's an interesting conceit. Contemporary fashion, like contemporary art, tends to be overthoug<br><br>
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| | '''NGC 3114''' is a sparse [[open cluster]] which is projected onto the outskirts of the [[Carina (constellation)|Carina]] complex.<ref name="CarraroPatat">G. Carraro, F. Patat, "Star clusters in the Carina complex: UBVRI photometry of NGC 3114, Colliner 228 and vdB-Hage 99*, A&A, '''Volume 379''', Number 1, November 2001, pp. 136-146</ref> |
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| If not by designers, then certainly by critics. After all, we have to justify our presence there. And the Air Miles we rack <br>.
| | Because of the high number of field [[stars]] from the [[Milky_Way#Composition_and_structure|disc of the Milky Way]], it is very difficult [[Celestial body|object]] to study<ref name="CarraroPatat" /> as this contamination makes its size ambiguous. |
| Marco Zanini also showed his final collection for the house of Rochas. He's moving to Schiaparelli. Like Jacobs, he was obsessed with surface, with dumb, straightforward beauty. His was sugary sweet, in pastels that made your teeth ache, dedicated to Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menager<br>.
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| Banish thoughts of tormented southern belles. Zanini focused on the crystalline beauty of said ornaments, bonding devor� velvet to organza and freckling iridescent fabrics with Swarovski g<br><br>
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| Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli took a precious approach, too. Their Valentino collection was inspired by the Rome Opera, apparently. In actual fact, it was all about the heavily embellished surfaces of lace and tulle. Lawn shirts seemed included purely as foil for all that decoration, a palette clean<br><br>
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| | NGC 3114 has first been subject of studies in 1963, when Jankowitz and McCosh obtained photographic [[UBV photometric system|UBV photometry]] for 171 of its stars and photoelectric UBV photometry of 52 stars. They estimated the [[Star cluster|cluster]] to be 910 [[parsec]]s from the [[Sun]], its mean [[Extinction (astronomy)|visual extinction]] <math>E(B-V) = 0.27</math> and its age to range from <math>6\times 10^{7}</math> and <math>2\times 10^{8}</math> years.<ref name="CarraroPatat" /> |
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| It would have made it easier to enjoy Hedi Slimane's latest Saint Laurent collection if you could take it at face value. Look! Sequinned lips! Flames! Lurex pop-socks! Removed from the heritage of Saint Laurent, it had a pop, pap appeal. If you stopped looking for a hidden depth, the soul-searching that Yves Saint Laurent made an intrinsic part of his fashion, Slimane ticked bo<br><br>
| | In 1988, Schneider and Weiss obtained [[photometry (astronomy)|photometry]] data for 122 stars, revising the cluster [[Extinction (astronomy)|reddening]] to be <math>E(B-V) = 0.03</math>.<ref name="CarraroPatat" /> |
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| Girls who want to look like that will love to dress in t<br>s.
| | Three years later, Sagar and Sharpless made the largest data recording of the cluster to date, obtaining BV [[Charge-coupled device|CCD]] photometry of around 350 stars from seven 3.6'×5.4' regions. Because these regions were rather far from the cluster centre, a substantial contamination was expected. Nevertheless, by assuming the cluster reddening value obtained by Schneider and Weiss, they found the cluster to be <math>940 \pm 60</math> pc, which agreed with the measurements taken 28 years previously by Jankowitz and McCosh. They also found the age of the cluster to be <math>1-2 \times 10^{8}</math> years.<ref name="CarraroPatat" /> |
| Karl Lagerfeld has always been about surface. His toying with the hallmarks of Chanel - tweeds, camellias, pearls, chains, those two-tone shoes - has always been about ironic appropriation, post-modern reinterpretation. It's the fashion equivalent of Jeff Ko<br><br>
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| He showed his latest Chanel collection in an art gallery. At least, it was on the surface. It was all fake, only the clothes were real. And they were pure Chanel, the art-house backdrop just that. I kept thinking of something Dinos Chapman once said to me: �I think that the art world and the high-end fashion world� are the same peop<br>.�
| | Finally, in 1989 Claria' et al. estimated the cluster [[Star#Chemical_composition|chemical abundance]], finding that NGC 3114 has basically the same [[metal (astronomy)|metal]] richness as the Sun, for which <math>[Fe/H] = -0.04\pm0.04</math><ref name="CarraroPatat" /> (Fe - [[Iron]], H - [[Hydrogen]]). |
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| People wanted to buy the Chanel works of art as surely as they wanted to buy the Chanel clothes. They both became post-modern commod<br>ies.
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| That's looking below the surface, though, behind the opulence of Chanel's specially woven, artfully unravelling tweeds that resembled rag-rugs, [http://www.pcs-systems.co.uk/Images/celinebag.aspx Celine Bag Online] the canvas bags with a 2.55 fa�ade painted on the front, the graffitied art-student backpacks. They were just great, covetable fashion, brilliant pro<br><br>s.
| | * [[List of open clusters]] |
| | * [[Open cluster family]] |
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| That brings us, inevitably, to Phoebe Philo. She's known for great products - photography is banned in the C�line showroom for fear of rampant copying. And rightfully so. Still, that oft-imitated C�line hallmark is an ascetic aesthetic. Philo is the last designer one imagines inclined to opu<br><br>e.
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| But her riotously messy spring C�line collection felt fresh and energetic, pleated skirts bouncing below an elongated torso, fringe swaying on [http://www.Google.com/search?q=latticed&btnI=lucky latticed] leather bags, mashed-up metal formed into enamelled bracelets and <br>els.
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| Couture, of course, breeds opulence. Riccardo Tisci halted his made-to-measure line this year, but the handicraft of couture infected his spring collection, from the crystal-encrusted masks, to feather-embroidered bodices, to a series of sequinned, sinuous multi-pleat evening <br><br>s.
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| Those were old-school opulent. For modern couture, and a contemporary opulence, fashion turns to Raf Simons. His last Dior haute-couture collection met mixed reviews, but has inspired many a designer. The throbbing mood of Africa that beat through the collections, albeit slightly hackneyed, can be traced to S<br>ons.
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| This time, he pushed his aesthetic further still. It felt a collection in flux, sitting halfway between Dior past and Simons future, a cross-pollination. The inspiration was flowers, a theme at the very root of Dior. But the best summary was the least ostentatious: Simons' shirtdresses, twisted takes on the white cotton coats of workers corkscrewing around the body in a fascinating surface of complex <br><br>s.
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| So, French fashion is all about surface. Where does that leave Rei Kawakubo and Junya Watanabe, or Hussein Chalayan? The visual is just a fragment of what they offer, thinking clothes for the thinking woman. Jacobs may be in love with �beauty for beauty's sake�, but this trio of talents begs for somethin<br>more.
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| They all had a stellar, cerebral season: Watanabe creating an idiosyncratic ode to the spaghetti Western, Chalayan a paean to the windswept beach, while Kawakubo presented 23 non-outfits that challenged our perceptions of what fashion actually represents. She stated that she had no new ideas, so didn't create c<br><br>es.
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| If only other designers could follow her lead and thin out th<br>herd.
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| The surface of this deep-thinking threesome's clothing was universally impressive, but it's what lies beneath that really interests. Opulent intelligence? Their clothes beg dissection and discussion. To intellectualise a fashion show isn't automatically to over- intellectual<br><br>it.
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| Ultimately, that's what fashion is about. Surface is all well and good. But you have to get someone inside the damn clothes for it to all make<br><br>se.
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| It's ideological, as well as physical. At least, it is when it's really great.
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Template:Cluster
NGC 3114 is a sparse open cluster which is projected onto the outskirts of the Carina complex.[1]
Because of the high number of field stars from the disc of the Milky Way, it is very difficult object to study[1] as this contamination makes its size ambiguous.
Studies of NGC 3114
NGC 3114 has first been subject of studies in 1963, when Jankowitz and McCosh obtained photographic UBV photometry for 171 of its stars and photoelectric UBV photometry of 52 stars. They estimated the cluster to be 910 parsecs from the Sun, its mean visual extinction 
and its age to range from 
and 
years.[1]
In 1988, Schneider and Weiss obtained photometry data for 122 stars, revising the cluster reddening to be 
.[1]
Three years later, Sagar and Sharpless made the largest data recording of the cluster to date, obtaining BV CCD photometry of around 350 stars from seven 3.6'×5.4' regions. Because these regions were rather far from the cluster centre, a substantial contamination was expected. Nevertheless, by assuming the cluster reddening value obtained by Schneider and Weiss, they found the cluster to be 
pc, which agreed with the measurements taken 28 years previously by Jankowitz and McCosh. They also found the age of the cluster to be 
years.[1]
Finally, in 1989 Claria' et al. estimated the cluster chemical abundance, finding that NGC 3114 has basically the same metal richness as the Sun, for which ![[Fe/H]=-0.04\pm 0.04](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/065d5d3cb731a0d5d4fd48ffb3ce7f4de7c3a37b)
[1] (Fe - Iron, H - Hydrogen).
See also
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 G. Carraro, F. Patat, "Star clusters in the Carina complex: UBVRI photometry of NGC 3114, Colliner 228 and vdB-Hage 99*, A&A, Volume 379, Number 1, November 2001, pp. 136-146