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Yes, that's genuine North China Leopard fur on display over in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. These big cats are now so rare that the museum is mostly where you see 'em.
The new exhibition Nan Kempner: American Chic at the de Young Museum is proving popular. You've probably missed the vintage couture sale of part of her wardrobe in New York but you can still see the best stuff of the original social X-ray here in the city until Armistice Day in the fall. Nan leaves behind a legacy of philanthropy but also a few mots that might not have been too bon such as "the only plastic I want is plastic surgery", "I loathe fat people", and "you can never be too rich or thin." Take a preview on the Flickr hyuh
[Update: Gentle readers may wish not to click over to SFMIKE's Civic Center Blog for his take. Next time, tell us how you really feel, Mike! And take a video tour of the New York show if you want here.]
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for a nice write-up on the exhibit with some more pictures, check out http://bitsandbobbins.com/journal/2007/06/15/nan-kempner-american-chic-at-san-franciscos-de-young-museum/
She looks like your typical rich anoxeria society doll. We still have a lot of them alive, living day to day on diet pills and Absolut. They are so charming to run into at Bloomies!!
She and Imelda Marcos would have been great room mates...
Perfect in keeping with the Sandcrawler and its driver Dede's passion for pushing things of value to extinction, like history, architectural significance, or respect for the will of SF voters.
Anybody who wears fur like that needs a good bitchslappin'.
Nan Kempner was a vile human being. In addition to her contempt for the un-thin and the un-rich, she was ugly. U-G-L-Y, you ain't got no alibi, ugly. She was so fake-baked that her chest looked like barbequed pork. Why again are we admiring this woman? Because she had a few expensive things in her closet?
- Christine (one of these days I WILL register!)
We put up with cars in the park for THIS? Fine art, my fine arse.
Who exactly is the deyoung museum catering to? It seems like the special exhibits are just about rich people's clothes lately. I mean, really, what are we supposed to learn from this? That fur is art? That mean people get lots of undue praise?