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Monday, June 15, 2020
Shawwal 23, 1441 AH
Doha today: 330 - 440
Cover
Story
Bailout
Netflix, other streaming services are making millions. Should
they come to the aid of the reeling American theatre? P4-5
Hollywood Back Page
The Bachelor casts Matt James Gone but not
as its first black leading man. forgotten!
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“Positive thinking will
let you do everything better
than negative thinking will.”
— Zig Ziglar
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Monday, June 15, 2020 GULF TIMES 3
BODY & MIND COMMUNITY
Why it’s critical for children to
get their routine healthcare
If you have held off making your well-child health appointment or have
missed your child’s routine vaccinations due to Covid-19 restrictions,
you may want to consider putting that on the top of your to-do list
reason, measles is a big concern,”
says Dr Rajapakse.
Whooping cough
Also known as pertussis,
whooping cough, is a highly
contagious bacterial respiratory
tract infection. It’s characterised
by severe hacking cough followed
by a high-pitched intake of breath
that sounds like “whoop.” While
deaths from pertussis may be rare,
it mostly occurs in infants.
“Whooping cough circulates in
the community, and when you have
decreases in vaccination rates, then
you can see that illness affecting
some of the most vulnerable groups
which are very young infants, so
under 6 months of age, who are
susceptible,” says Dr Rajapakse.
“We don’t want to add that on what
we’re all dealing with right now
with Covid-19 as well.”
Schedule
Dr Rajapakse urges parents and
care-givers to ensure children
are up-to-date on their vaccine
schedule. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention offers a
vaccine schedule for all age groups
including infants, children and
adults.
Safety
Dr Rajapakse offered these
recommendations to stay safe when
visiting a clinic:
1. Parent and child (> 2 years of
PREVENTIVE MEASURES: Vaccines can prevent infectious diseases that once killed or harmed many infants, children, and adults including polio, measles, age) should wear a mask.
mumps, rubella, influenza, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough). 2. Wash hands frequently or use
“
alcohol-based hand sanitiser.
We have seen, over the Vaccines 3. Try and maintain 6 feet of
last few months, across Vaccines can prevent infectious distance in waiting rooms or other
the country that rates of diseases that once killed or harmed areas where other people may be
vaccines in children have many infants, children, and around.
dropped precipitously, adults including polio, measles, 4. Call ahead if you or your child
and that’s really concerning to us mumps, rubella, influenza, tetanus, have any symptoms of Covid-19.
as paediatricians because it means diphtheria and pertussis (whooping 5. If sick, any non-urgent visits
that we are now at risk for having cough). should be delayed until you have
outbreaks of vaccine-preventable “Vaccines are lifesaving recovered and are no longer at risk
diseases,” says Dr Nipunie interventions for children,” says for transmitting the infection to
Rajapakse, a paediatrics infectious Dr Rajapakse. “They prevent others.
diseases specialist at Mayo Clinic. many serious and life-threatening If you have concerns about the
“That’s why we’re really assuring infectious diseases that affect safety of your healthcare provider
parents that it is safe to bring their children and adults. When you have due to Covid-19, Dr Rajapakse
children to the clinic.” rates of vaccine that drop below a says, “It’s very reasonable to call
“At Mayo, we’ve had time to certain threshold, often referred DELAY THE VISIT: If sick, any non-urgent visits should be delayed until you your paediatrician or your family
put systems and practices into to as herd immunity, you then set have recovered and are no longer at risk for transmitting the infection to others. doctor’s office to find out what they
place to help protect patients and up a situation where you can start have put in place to help keep you
families, and so it is now safe to to see outbreaks of these vaccine- than 100,000 people a year, most large outbreaks of measles occur and your family protected,” says
start returning to get routine care, preventable diseases.” under the age of 5. Measles can be across the country. Once your herd Dr Rajapakse. “Many offices have
which is critically important, prevented with a vaccine as part immunity drops below a certain gone above and beyond to try and
especially when it comes to well- Measles of the measles-mumps-rubella threshold, you really set yourself keep their patients and families
child checks and vaccines,” says Dr Measles is a highly contagions (MMR) vaccine. up in a situation where those protected.” – Mayo Clinic News
Rajapakse. viral infection that kills more “In the last year or two we’ve had outbreaks can occur. And, for this Network/TNS
4 GULF TIMES Monday, June 15, 2020
COMMUNITY COVER STORY
Entertainment wealth
distribution, anyone?
Should the money-spinning streaming services be coughing up some cash to make
sure the theatres they need to make their money don’t go bust, asks Chris Jones
‘ T
he live entertainment
It’s only fair for them to share industry is in deep
trouble. Major music
some of that surplus cash with promoters and
presenters like Live
their longtime partners, just Nation Entertainment and AEG
as insurance companies have Live have laid off or furloughed
a daunting percentage of their
returned a portion of their staffs in recent weeks, arguing
their businesses were among
premiums to drivers losing their the first to close and will be the
last to reopen. Broadway and
cars less. It’s doing the right thing live performance across the
country remains shuttered and,
especially as the first round of
— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune the Paycheck Protection Program
expires this month, job losses
culture columnist in nonprofit theaters and other
arts organisations have been
mounting.
Monday, June 15, 2020 GULF TIMES 5
COVER STORY COMMUNITY
The Guthrie Theatre in
Minneapolis, for example, has
seen its staff reduced from 262 to
55. Second City has furloughed
a majority of its staffers. Other
major job losses in Chicago and
elsewhere have been happening
more quietly, even as the theatre
engages in a period of self-
examination after widespread
allegations of institutionalised
racism.
Meanwhile, often by claiming
to be neutral presenters of diverse
programming, Netflix, Amazon
and other streaming services have
been making record amounts
of cash: Netflix reported $709
million in profits during the
first quarter of 2020, more than
double the previous year’s. As
quarantined citizens widely
relied on streamed dramatic
entertainment to get through their
lonely lockdowns — as revealing
of the ongoing necessity of the
arts to American life as at any
point in history — Netflix also
added a stunning 16 million new
subscribers.
You could argue that Netflix
and its peers merely are reaping
the rewards from meeting societal
changes, or even that they deserve
their luck. But this staggering
disconnect between two closely
related industries — one never
more successful, the other
mired in a veiled but existential SHUTTERED: Milwaukee’s Oriental Theatre says “Go Away Virus. Stay Safe MKE”. They are among many theatres and small businesses closed by the
economic crisis — has sparked coronavirus.
new conversations about what
those profiting from the current and thus something desirable: a to the minor leagues or give up
state of affairs owe those who are chance for poorly compensated artistic control and there would be Netflix reported $709 million in
in trouble. playwrights or performers to finally worries such a change would end
Or, to put that more bluntly, make some real money in TV. That up taking money out of artists’ profits during the first quarter of 2020,
should these streaming services
be coughing up some cash to make
remains true, to a point. But the
amount of money to be made, and
pockets.
Baseball’s farm system asserts a
more than double the previous year’s.
sure the theatres they need to make the attractiveness of the gig, has
diminished as some shows have
level of institutionalised discipline Netflix also added a stunning
their money don’t go bust? and standardisation that never
The argument, similar to the been ordering fewer episodes would fly in the arts. And minor 16 million new subscribers
powerful case recently made by and the market has become more league players make little money
newspapers that Facebook and fractured. compared to the paychecks in the
Google should compensate them In either case, theatres, as majors.
for sharing their content, has institutions, traditionally have Still, there’s a strong business
been advanced by the director received little or none of that argument to be made for the
Sam Mendes and others in the money. All they have been able to streamers to ensure that the small
United Kingdom. It points out do these last few Covid-dominated but artistically mighty entities
that streaming giants like Netflix, months is put out their own online that have made the golden age
Hulu and Amazon are reliant on content produced, in almost every of television possible don’t go
live theatres for the development case, without access to the very belly-up. Broadway has done that
of new plays and playwrights, and resources that would allow them to for years through entities like
for the training and cultivation of be competitive. the Shubert Foundation, a major
actors, designers and other creative You could argue the theatres funding of regional theater and of
artists. don’t deserve it: most of them training programmes.
With massive resources available have not chosen to employ The Covid-19 crisis has increased
for purchasing content, these these artists but rather to do that moral imperative. This is,
companies can, in essence, lie in business with them as part of after all, a life-threatening crisis.
wait and read reviews until a writer the gig economy, spending their Theatres, comedy clubs and
shows a level of mature talent money instead on high-priced independent music venues could
following years of cultivation by a administrators. And unions not control nor anticipate the
theatre, and then swoop in and steal understandably don’t want their health crisis, nor the regulations
that writer away. members to be obligated to share that forced them to close. Those set
There are, of course, countless royalties for their own work. up to pipe entertainment into the
examples of writers moving from On the other hand, consider home got very lucky.
the theatre to running and writing baseball: Major League teams Surely, it’s only fair for them to
shows for cable and streaming fund minor-league affiliates, share some of that surplus cash
platforms: Tanya Saracho (Vida), using them to develop emerging with their longtime partners,
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Chilling talent. Minor league teams are just as insurance companies
Adventures of Sabrina), Marisa independently owned and operated have returned a portion of their
Wegrzyn (The Liar), Ike Holter but contractually affiliated with premiums to drivers losing their
(Fosse/Verdon) and enough the majors, ensuring their stability cars less. It’s doing the right
others to fill scores of paragraphs. and, in this moment, their quick thing.
Moreover, many of the actors in recovery. At minimum, it’s time for Netflix,
those and other shows honed their A permanent relationship like Amazon, Hulu and HBO Max to
craft in one of the very theaters that with a giant like Netflix is sponsor some virtual galas. It’s
looking at enormous holes in its probably a bridge too far for many strange how rarely those names
budget. theatres; Chicago’s Goodman have been on the list of benefactors.
In the past, this opportunity or Steppenwolf Theatres would Who has more reason?
has been seen in individual terms not want to relegate themselves — Chicago Tribune /TNS
6 GULF TIMES Monday, June 15, 2020
COMMUNITY INTERIOR DESIGN
Setting the stage: inside an
ever-changing Paris home
Everything is fluid in the Paris apartment of an artistic director and scenographer
famed in the fashion world for his visual displays, writes Aimee Farrell
“
I’m always searching instinctive approach to design.
for objects,” says Jean- Instead of meticulously planning
Christophe Aumas of the with mood boards, it’s spontaneity
midcentury designs and – and the objects themselves – that
curiosities that lend his determines the decor. Beyond the
Pigalle apartment its theatrical, kitchen, his modus operandi was to
lived-in look. The Parisian artistic keep the palette uncharacteristically
director and founder of the visual restrained. “The style of the interior
and set design studio, Singular, is is so unique, rather than have mono
the imaginative eye behind some of blocks of colour everywhere I
luxury fashion’s most spectacular decided to let it breathe,” he says.
creative displays. Aumas spends Aside from the arched blue
his days scouring flea markets mirror he conceived for the living
and galleries for design finds room mantelpiece, little is fixed
and furnishings, destined for the in this ever-evolving home. Huge
windows, instore scenes and events canvases lean against the walls,
he conjures for everyone from grouped with eclectic ensembles of
Hermès to Diptych. Starting his Portuguese and Spanish ceramics
career at Christian Lacroix, Aumas and left-field, one-time props.
joined Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton It’s an ad-hoc style that allows
as head of visual identity in 1997, him freedom to play around and
before striking out on his own to constantly reconfigure the space.
collaborate with a roster of clients “My apartment is like a laboratory
including Phoebe Philo and Alber for my ideas,” he explains. “It’s
Elbaz. important to me that it feels like a
“I learned something different constant work in progress.”
from each one of them,” he says. Drawn to designs from the
“From Philo it was the beauty of 1950s and 1970s for their cool
simplicity; that even a plain chair sense of modernity, Aumas made
can be wonderful and compelling.” his first serious investment in the
From Jacobs, it was unfettered self- black leather sofa by the Italian
expression. “He let us do whatever architect Vincenzo De Cotiis, which
we wanted to do,” says Aumas, who CHANGING ROOMS: Jean-Christophe Aumas’s Paris flat is a testing ground for the designer’s work life. A black leather currently sits alongside an armchair
has distilled every one of these sofa by Vincenzo De Cotiis takes pride of place in the light-filled sitting room. by another favourite – Carlos
sartorial lessons into the home he Scarpa.
shares with his French bulldog, dominated by a procession of the loft he’d lived in for more than a Next, he set to work on the Far from a design snob, he finds
René. stained-glass windows. Thought decade – but he knew immediately kitchen, adding the circular concrete as much aesthetic value in a stone,
The apartment occupies the to be in the original Art Deco style, it had to be his. Rather than table and fashioning the okoume a shell a junk-shop find as a quality
entire ground floor of an 18th- their bright, bold design lends the reconfiguring the layout, he set plywood cabinetry, which stands design piece from a gallery. “It’s not
century hôtel particulier, which, space the ecclesiastical atmosphere about installing the skylight and in stark contrast to the lilac walls. a question of whether something
though divided into three separate of a church. floor-to-ceiling glass doors in the That unexpected tone, chosen to is good or bad taste, it’s whether
homes some 50 years ago, retains When Aumas was first shown sitting room: “I wanted to bring in clash with a geometric acquamarine it tells a story,” says Aumas. He is
its original grandeur from the richly the property in 2015, he wasn’t more light and open things up to wall light he picked up at a Belgian attracted to objects for their shape,
decorative plaster detailing to the particularly looking to move from enhance the sense of modernity.” flea market, is typical of Aumas’s hue or material finish.
seriously lofty ceilings. Accessed The compulsion to decorate
by a small door at the end of a started young. The walls of his
long, antique tiled corridor, the childhood bedroom would frequently
space is a tranquil shelter from the change, shifting from blue to black
nocturnal hum of the nearby clubs to yellow. This easy fluidity extends
and fabled Moulin Rouge. A quirky, to his current work life, too. Often,
lavender-toned kitchen opens he’ll source a piece of furniture or
out into a generous, glass-walled an object for a window display that
sitting room complete with its own will end up in his apartment; or he’ll
compact courtyard garden. “It has pull the perfect piece from his home
a very special feeling,” says Aumas to put in a showroom. “There’s no
of the veritable jungle teeming with boundary between my work and
bamboo, banana plants and ferns my home,” he says. “It’s all just my
in oversized pots and trailing from way of styling. I like the idea that my
hanging baskets. You can’t believe home is never finished.”
that you’re in central Paris the During lockdown, the designer has
garden has a real Mediterranean feel. been pondering a move to the French
The architectural surprises don’t country or seaside, his long-held
end there. The airy sitting room dream to relocate to Italy on hold for
leads to a large study, complete with now. “When I start to feel stuck,” he
mezzanine bunk and bathroom, says, “I’ll simply move on to another
and on to a dining room and two space.”
adjoining bedrooms that are BASIC: Plywood and concrete fittings contrast with the softer lilac colour scheme in the kitchen. – The Guardian
Monday, June 15, 2020 GULF TIMES 7
GARDENING COMMUNITY
Tips for outdoor
space, gardening
By Aimee Farrell
W
ith space in
our homes at a
premium, even the
tiniest outdoor plot
provides solace.
We’ve never needed nature’s salve
more. So, for anyone lucky enough
to have a garden, now’s the time
to treat your backyard with the
same decorative care as your front
room. We asked five decorators
and designers to share their tricks
for creating the ultimate outdoor
retreat, from furniture to table
settings.
Unleash your imagination
“If you do it well, a garden
is an escape into another little
world,” says Beata Heuman. The
Sweden-born interior designer,
whose own London plot features a
conservatory-style garden house,
suggests adding a simple string
of filament-bulb lights outdoors.
“It’s so atmospheric,” she says. “At GREEN THOUGHT IN A GREEN SHADE: A cleverly designed rooftop space
night, it really heightens the sense with smart garden in Bloomsbury, central London.
of space.”
Heuman treats the garden like a used as extraction filters in the Turn up the colours
room. “Think about how you want production of olive oil. Made in Matilda Goad has turned her
to use it throughout the day,” she La Scourtinerie, a small factory in modest north London plot into
says. Consider whether you’ll need Provence, the rugs are “so sweet a series of little havens. It’s
to provide shade, or if you want underfoot”, says Rauzy. partitioned both by foliage and
to face the sun. With furniture, Watson and Rauzy dine at a round flowers, and old railway sleepers
Heuman errs on the side of caution. rattan 1960s table topped with tiles found on eBay, to build borders,
“It can be quite sad looking out on by the French ceramicist Roger paths and a bench. “It creates a
lots of empty chairs in winter,” she Capron. They’ll arrange large rattan sense of discovery even in a small
says. “But a garden bench looks nice armchairs and sunbeds together space, which is exactly what I like
all year round.” with giant planters and lanterns to do indoors,” says designer and
Inspired by the wall tattoos at of their own design. The key to consultant Goad, who created the
Jean Cocteau’s French Riviera home, the outdoor idyll is practicality. space under the guidance of the
Heuman has plans for a terrace “Everything has to be easy to garden designer Butter Wakefield.
mural in her own garden. “It gives live with,” says Rauzy, “so less is Rather than splurge on furniture,
depth and a sense of something definitely more.” Goad plans to build a concrete-
to discover,” she says. Her holy topped dining space. “We so
horticultural grail is the Sicilian Blur the boundaries rarely have amazing weather in
poolside in Luca Guadagnino’s 2016 Simplicity is the essence of this country, it makes sense to
film A Bigger Splash. “People aren’t Nathalie Farman-Farma’s garden think about pieces to pull into the
imaginative about gardens,” she style. The textile designer’s terrace garden from your sitting room,”
says, “but it’s a great place in which on the roof of her London studio she says. Long wooden benches
to be creative.” draws on the botanical aesthetic and little stools work just as well
of traditional Russian dachas outside as in, especially when
Keep it practical (cottages). “Nothing should teamed with Hungarian linen
For Atelier Vime founders compete with nature,” she says cushions and Mexican rugs to pull
Anthony Watson and Benoît Rauzy, of the richly layered tapestry of everything together.
outdoor living can be organised into vegetables, herbs and climbers in Goad makes an exception for
a trio of spaces: somewhere to dine, terracotta pots. The most important bistro tables and chairs by the
somewhere to read and a place to addition is her white wooden café French maker Maison Drucker and
lie in the sun. The pair have been table with foldable chairs. But the Parisian-style park benches – the
spending their days on their farm style should be dictated by the brighter the hue, the better. “An
in Brittany, where they’re growing context, she says. She’ll use vintage acid-yellow bench really pops
their first crop of wicker, the base scarves, or antique folk textiles as against a brick wall and greenery.”
material for their creations. “Garden a tablecloth, topped with small Try eBay, Pamono or Selancy
reading is an activity that requires Japanese ikebana basket planters. “I for similar vintage pieces and
a comfortable chair and a low table love things to feel a little overgrown,” smarten up with a lick of paint. “If
for your book, carafe and glass,” says she says of her rooftop’s romantic, you have a small terrace or garden,
Rauzy. “I’m a big fan of the outdoor yet unfussy look. For guests she’ll why not paint it Yves Klein Blue or
bookshelf – ideally somewhere pull out cushions and Bessarabian use a bright tone on the exterior
sheltered from the rain.” kilims from indoors. “I like the doors?” suggests Goad. “The
For outdoor flooring they love continuity between the outside and garden is a place where you can be
scourtin, the circular rugs made in,” she says. “It’s nice to blur the brave.”
SUN TRAP: The Provençal garden of Atelier Vime. out of coconut fibre that were once boundaries.” – The Guardian
8 GULF TIMES Monday, June 15, 2020
COMMUNITY FASH
How coronavirus is shaking
The industry has been taken apart at the seams. Is this
the end of lavish shows and packed front rows?
clothes. There is no guarantee that
By Jess Cartner-Morley consumers will automatically dance
to the beat of trends again. Sale-
I
of-the-century discounts are likely
t was on the morning of 18 this summer as retailers rush to
March, when Glastonbury shift stock – but will anyone want
was confirmed cancelled, an expensive keepsake of a season
that Sarah Gresty, BA course they spent indoors and anxious?
leader in fashion at Central How do we try on clothes safely?
Saint Martins (CSM), realised What happens to fashion week,
that the class of 2020 would be a now that squishing hundreds of
graduating year unlike any other. people from all over the world on
“That was when we thought: OK, to packed benches so they can take
this is only heading one way. After pictures on their phones seems,
that, everything happened really well, loopy? And – biggest of all,
fast. That evening many of the this – how will this unexpected
international students started quarantine of shopping impact on
getting sent home, and were literally consumer demand? Have we kicked
grabbing their things from the our fashion habit? And what will
studios and heading to the airport.” that mean for a generation hoping to
Within days, all students were told make a living creating clothes?
that there would be no final show. “Fashion will survive. Creativity
“It was traumatic,” says Gresty. will always find its way, I’m not
“For many of them, that show is a worried about that,” says Jefferson
moment they had been dreaming Hack, co-founder and CEO of Dazed
about since they were children.” Media. Fashion, after all, was one
I have spent the last week talking of the first industries to repurpose
to class of 2020 graduates from itself, with designers pivoting to
all over the country, and a word the production of masks and gowns
I have heard time and again is for frontline workers. “What I
“heartbreaking”. They made it all am concerned about is the bad
the way to the final year of fashion deal that young people get in this
college, only to find themselves in country. Long before coronavirus,
the right place at the wrong time, the younger generation were being
with college paused before the show hung out to dry economically and
that was meant to launch them into politically. The generation Dazed
the world. A final-year fashion show, is for have inherited a messed-
after all, is a night like no other up environment and an insecure
– think prom meets Absolutely NEVER THE SAME: Models walk along a fake beach at Karl Lagerfeld’s SS19 collection for Chanel at the Grand Palais, in economy. We need to build a new
Fabulous meets Frieze. October 2018. fashion system that is ethical and
But there are other words I equal, and empowers young people.”
have heard a lot, too. Change. Paris, Milan or New York. But the of independent designer labels wiped out. Many students tell me of jobs that
Opportunity. Sustainability. Reset. globalised supply chains on which whose survival depends on the sale At a meta level, there is a sense had been advertised disappearing
“I am proud to be part of the first mass fashion depends in order to of clothes that have been sitting of a spell having been broken. The from recruitment websites. Some
generation of post-pandemic serve customers with the speed and behind shuttered shop doors since carousel of seasonal fashion trends who planned to begin postgraduate
graduates,” CSM student Viktorija low prices they now expect have March look set to go bust. The broke down just as the spring/ courses in the autumn have
Kozorezova tells me from her been severed, and a question mark British Fashion Council has warned summer ride was getting started, deferred, waiting to see how the
bedroom, where she is producing hangs over whether they can ever that without substantial support, throwing everyone off, to stumble chips fall, while others who hoped
the wearable sculptures she had be safely resurrected. Thousands half the country’s industry could be indoors to their homes and comfy to find employment are opting for
been planning to produce in the further study. Many are wrestling
college metal workshop, but out with emotional fallout alongside
of DIY filling foam instead. Maisie the logistical issues. “I always felt
Crome, from Kingston School of Art, left out by traditional educational
has spotted craft and homemade methods,” says Thomas Robert,
projects “all over Instagram, the a fashion promotion student at
TV news, everywhere. I specialise Manchester Metropolitan University
in knitwear and I chime on about (MMU). “High school was tough
handmade, about UK-made, so and so was college. University has
I’m really excited to be part of that been the making of me as a person,
movement.” “I know for a fact,” and I feel deflated that I will not get
says Hannah Eleri Russell of the to celebrate this amazing milestone
University for the Creative Arts in my life.” Another MMU student,
Epsom, “that this time has made Deanna Barber, says: “I know this
me look at clothes in my wardrobe won’t last for ever, but it feels like
in a different way. Given the level my goals have got much further
of overproduction, I hope this is a away. A lot of uncertainty – about
chance to consider caring for our income, happiness, sense of
clothes better and to learn new ways achievement – has entered my life.”
to mend and make pieces.” That uncertainty is felt right
Fashion has been taken apart at up to the top of the fashion food
the seams by the coronavirus crisis chain. “I feel very strongly that
– and the class of 2020 could be when we come out at the other end,
the ones to redesign and remake it. people’s values are really going to
Graduate-level jobs in the industry have shifted,” Anna Wintour said
often mean a move to an atelier in A TALE OF OLD TIMES: Customers wait ahead of the Balmain x H&M launch on Regent Street, London, in November. recently. “It is an opportunity for all
Monday, June 15, 2020 GULF TIMES 9
HION COMMUNITY
up fashion industry at large
of us to look at our industry… and are there Instagramming it. This care about leaving the world in a
really think about the waste and the could be the moment when fashion better shape through your practice,
amount of money and consumption week becomes, by necessity, created you will make yourself irrelevant.”
and excess that we’ve all – and I primarily for digital consumption.” Today’s 20-year-olds, who
obviously include myself in this – Why stop at Instagram and have grown up with the climate
that we’ve all indulged in. We really YouTube: Fashion Week x Netflix, emergency at the centre of their
need to rethink what this industry anyone? world view, see environmental
stands for.” The crisis has, Amed points out, impact as an essential part of
Fashion, after all, should be broken down outmoded fashion thinking about fashion, rather than
about change. “Positives can and snobberies toward digital. With a notion at loggerheads with it.
will come out of this,” says Emma conferences and shows cancelled, “I think the entire seasonal cycle
Hope Allwood, head of fashion at many of the grandest names have should adapt itself to the climate
Dazed Digital. “We have been given found their way on to less polished crisis,” says Saskia Purr, a student
what we never had before: time and forms of communication. Marc at Nottingham Trent University.
distance to work out what we want Jacobs loves a Zoom chat; Olivier “Climate change is making our
our industry to look like. This crisis Rousteing, creative director of winters warmer and our summers
has made the waste and the excess Balmain, is on TikTok. “There is longer.”
more visible.” an opportunity for young people
The ingenuity required to here, because there are still so many It is becoming fashionable, in
complete studies during lockdown brands who really have no idea when industry circles, to propose that
has prompted students to think it comes to digital content. Now the way forward for fashion is to
outside fashion’s ribbon-tied box. is the time for them to be working turn the clock back. “You know
One student, no longer able to with the young trailblazers who what fashion should have done? We
source the buttons she wanted, went understand how to create work that should have stuck to our guns,” says
beachcombing for shells and used is fun and engaging. This is going to Bebe Moratti, founder of the Italian
those instead. Another, who had be a more marketable skill than ever ethical luxury brand Redemption.
planned to shoot her collection on before,” says Amed. The fashion system, he says,
a model friend in the city where she should step away from the mass-
studied, found herself isolating in Many of this year’s graduates are consumption gravy train. “People
the country with her parents and ahead of this curve. Earlier this year, say you can’t go back to the old ways,
had to switch to using her mother. long before the logistical impact but that’s exactly what the brands
Seeing the clothes on her mum of the pandemic was being felt, that have survived the longest have
unexpectedly made them look even Heriot-Watt University in Scotland done. Look at Hermès. That is what
stronger, she says. had already decided to replace the the dynamic of fashion should be
When fashion students and traditional fashion show with a new, an investment in something that’s
established designers are canvassed more sustainable format showing beautifully made, something that
about the future of fashion, a final work digitally through video, you love, a transaction that supports
remarkable consensus emerges: film and photography. At CSM, the person that made it. So, is my
almost everyone wants to ditch five of this year’s 109 graduates business model crazy, to go back to a
overproduction and waste. But had opted for entirely virtual final place where we cherish what we buy,
almost everyone wants to save the collections before the crisis began where we cherish the workers, where
fashion show. to unfold. Scarlett Yang, a student we cherish the environment? No. It’s
Fashion has become bloated. who has been collaborating with not crazy at all. It works.”
Collections are too big and too brands on 3D animations and “This crisis has made the
frequent. “We have too much virtual reality showcases, tells me nation less materialistic,” says
product,” as Joseph Altuzarra put she now “has more offers of work Bournemouth student Ffion
it bluntly to Vogue recently, and it than I had before”. Jessica Gray, McCormick-Edwards. “We have
is produced to a trend cycle that 23, a matchesfashion.com scholar stayed connected by talking about
has become unintelligible. Coats at CSM, says her final collection what we are looking forward to:
now have to go on sale in July to “represents the overwhelming effect things like a family barbecue, or a
shift them before the sundresses of the screen interfering in our lives. party with friends, or seeing our
hit the shop floor in November. The STATEMENT: Nigerian influencer Angel Obasi wearing a face mask in Lagos, If that wasn’t a premonition, I don’t grandparents.”
internal workings of a schedule Nigeria, in May. know what is!” Despite the blow of missing out
yoked to outmoded department- The crisis has accelerated a shift on graduation, “I wouldn’t say this
store logic has come unmoored But the fashion show – for all pickled in champagne and reeking towards a more waste-conscious term has been all loss,” says fashion
from common sense. Giorgio its bad press as a gaudy totem of of carbon. There is a strong desire to mindset. One student who had had knitwear student Rhiannon Davies.
Armani has announced that his excess – still has a magic, one many bring back the magic, without the his heart set on a beautiful silk that “My collection has become a lot
next haute couture collection designers want to rediscover in a circus. For many labels, cost-cutting ended up shuttered in a locked- more authentic to me, because doing
will be seasonless, with pieces for new, more modern form. For the rest will be an economic necessity – and down Italian factory has made his it at home has cut off the many
all climates, and denounced the of 2020 at least, social distancing even for the luxury houses best final collection using a bedsheet voices that I would find distracting
churn of high-speed fashion as seems set to put paid to fashion placed to ride this out, there is donated by his parents instead. at university. Facing myself – and
criminal and absurd. Designers weeks as we have known them. “It’s the matter of tone. “The narrative Another, with bracing can-do spirit, my own company – is something I
Dries Van Noten and Marine Serre, pretty clear that if the September of fashion as a symbol of excess is embroidering on to loo roll. And don’t usually do a lot of. I almost feel
and retailers Selfridges in the UK shows do happen – and that’s a very isn’t always warranted,” says Hope while some internships in Paris and I’ve found myself in the process.”
and Lane Crawford in Hong Kong big if at this point – they will be Allwood, “but in a post-pandemic Milan have been cancelled, others Still, the class of 2020 has been
and mainland China, are among completely different,” says Imran world brands will not want to be are happening online. The savings dealt a harsh blow. “I think the
the signatories of an open letter Amed, founder and CEO of the seen to embody it.” on travel and accommodation not biggest loss is not the show itself,
proposing a reset to the seasons. Business of Fashion. “I look back This vintage of graduates are only make for a smaller carbon but the camaraderie around it,” says
They want collections to be on sale to the shows in February, where we firmly generation Z, the first to footprint, but opportunities that are Gresty. “The last seven weeks before
for longer, with less emphasis on were all squeezed in like sardines, have grown up fully digital native. more accessible to students with less a show is sheer hard work, tears,
the extra seasons of resort and high and that seems like another world. They are perfectly poised to do financial support, as Gresty points panic, but also this amazing energy,
summer. The late Azzedine Alaïa, I don’t think fashion week will what fashion designers have been out. supporting each other through the
who refused to conform to Paris look the same this year – and then attempting to do, but not quite The coming generation have the fatigue – and then coming together
fashion week schedules and showed the question is, does that change pulling off, for the past two decades, opportunity to make sustainability in celebration. Not having that is
his collections as and when he felt become permanent?” and reinvent the fashion show as a core value. “Young people will tough.” Despite the hardships of
they were ready and appropriate, is The fashion show at its best can a digital-first event. “Until now, emerge from this period wanting this term, she sees a bright future.
being hailed as ahead of his time. be an electric collective experience, digital has always been peripheral to to buy for the future, to buy “Students keep saying to me, ‘We’re
“I’ll wait four years for Frank Ocean immersive theatre at its best. But fashion week,” says Amed. “Digital secondhand – just to make better so unlucky to be in this year – why
to make an album,” notes Dazed in the last decade, Hollywood- has meant a show produced for a choices, even if that’s buying us?’ and I say, ‘Are you joking? You
Digital’s Hope Allwood. “I can wait scale set-building and guests flown live audience and then broadcast. Or something on Depop knowing you are lucky. This is such a special year.
more than three months for a brand in from all over the world have an Instagrammable moment – but can flip it again later,” says Hope This is the year that everyone will
to do a show.” contributed to a spectacle of excess, that depends on a live audience who Allwood. “If your business doesn’t remember for ever.’” – The Guardian
10 GULF TIMES Monday, June 15, 2020
COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC
Try This
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when stretched many times warmer than the thin one for two
reasons:
Tiny rubber particles move
around against each other There’s more rubber in it creating heat
when rubber stretches
The thin band loses heat
The friction (rubbing) between faster than the thick one
particles converts some of the energy because the rubber inside it
from the stretching movement to heat is close to its surfaceMonday, June 15, 2020 GULF TIMES 11
LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY
Longer time in bed during lockdowns
could worsen sleep quality: survey
P
eople are sleeping for quality. To the contrary, those
longer hours during surveyed reported that their sleep
lockdowns and work quality actually deteriorated a little
from home scenario during the lockdown.
as they do not need to This is not very surprising,
travel to workplaces but the quality explained Blume, “as this
of sleep has become worse in many, unprecedented situation also was
reveals new research. highly burdening in many ways.
If the differences in sleep timing Financial and health concerns or
and duration between work days stress related to child care are just a
and days off become too large, this few relevant aspects”.
can lead to “social jetlag”. More than 85 per cent of the
A latest survey by the University respondents were working from
of Basel in Switzerland found home at that time. Overall, the
respondents admitting sleeping participants slept rather well and 75
up to 50 minutes longer than per cent of them were women.
before the lockdown. One factor The survey found that a
contributing to this could be that relaxation of social rhythms – for
people no longer had to commute to example, through more flexible
work in the morning. working hours – led to a reduction
Flexible working hours, no in “social jetlag”.
commuting and potentially more This suggests that the sleep-
time to sleep led to a reduction wake patterns of those surveyed
in “social jetlag”, according to were guided by internal biological
psychologist Dr Christine Blume signals rather than social rhythms,” constantly perform and be active. If the differences in sleep timing those whose sleep has deteriorated.
from the University of Basel. Blume added. Rhythms of work and leisure and duration between work days Our findings suggest that
However, the reduction of “social Many sleep disorders are caused activities thus set a cycle that is and days off become too large, this physical activity outdoors could
jetlag” was not paralleled by an by our modern lifestyle, which often at a mismatch with the body’s can lead to “social jetlag”. counteract deterioration in sleep
improvement in perceived sleep is characterised by pressure to internal biological clock. The sleep experts have a tip for quality,” they suggested. — IANS
Aries
March 21 — April 19
Taurus
April 20 — May 20
Gemini
May 21 — June 20
Today isn’t a day for meditation, Aries. The planetary energies are If you have grievances about your personal life, Taurus, today is Are you thinking of switching careers or travelling to the other side
asking you to step outside of yourself and get back into the world the day to speak up. Indeed, today requires only total honesty and of the world, Gemini? Or perhaps you just want to pull a “Greta
again! You’ve been doing an awful lot of thinking about your image forthrightness in all areas. You can expect to confront “the other,” Garbo” and stay at home alone with the shades drawn tight. A series
recently, and now you’re going to have to test out how the “new whether it’s your mate or co-worker, on the basis of truth and of small incidents at work is likely to inspire you with the most
and improved” you operates in your daily life. You can expect some righteousness. Rest assured you’ll command their attention! Be careful outlandish of ideas. It might just be that you sense your inner need
pleasant feedback and truly lasting changes! that the weight of your words doesn’t surpass that of your thoughts. for a change of scene.
Cancer
June 21 — July 22
Leo
July 23 — August 22
Virgo
August 23 — September 22
You’re likely to find people somewhat irritating today, Cancer. It’s as When you woke up this morning, you may have felt an The mood you’re in today is the stuff of which memorable
though nothing is good enough, and nobody seems to know exactly oppressive mood hanging in the air. Unfortunately, that haze of encounters are made. You’ll be wary at first, perhaps even
what he or she wants. You’ll reign supreme within this maze of overt misunderstanding and conflict is likely to last all day. However, it somewhat hostile, to anyone who dares intrude on your freedom.
conflict and dissatisfaction. You might even be asked to step in and makes this an ideal time to speak up about anything that’s bothering Then suddenly you’ll realise that this person is someone special,
restore order. If the conflict is domestic, go ahead. But tread carefully you! Don’t be shy about going on the warpath today. If you don’t, intriguing, and definitely out of the ordinary.
if you’re asked to be the sheriff at the office! Leo, you’re likely to be the target of a surprise attack.
Libra
September 23 — October 22
Scorpio
October 23 — November 21
Sagittarius
November 22 — December 21
More than ever before, you’ll feel as though it’s time to take matters This is the ideal moment to address once and for all the questions Like your compatriots, Sagittarius, something is coming to an end
into your own hands and build your own career future. You’re fed up that have been on your mind for the last three weeks, Scorpio. Pay concerning the lack of confidence you have in yourself. You have
with living on hope and putting off your happiness until tomorrow. particular attention to questions that touch on your sentimental been hesitant to stand in the spotlight for quite a while now, feeling
Your determination will be so strong that you could even surprise side. If you’re currently involved in unsatisfactory relationships, don’t you aren’t quite ready. Well, no more excuses! Ready or not, you’re
yourself. Tomorrow you’ll refine your approach and make it more be afraid to leave them behind. And if you’re fretting about a request going to have to push forward. The only thing you risk losing is your
concrete. Today is the first day of a new life for you, Libra. you made that has yet to be answered, let it go. pride, and that, Sagittarius, is your most resilient asset.
Capricorn
December 22 — January 19
Aquarius
January 20 — February 18
Pisces
February 19 — March 20
It’s possible that the last few weeks have allowed you to gain a little These past three weeks were rather good for your equilibrium, It isn’t always pleasant to have to question oneself, Pisces, but this
clarity on certain questions you may have about your vocation, Aquarius. It was just a matter of getting a bit more involved in life than is the main objective of today’s planetary energies – to launch you
Capricorn. You might even be a little clearer about your feelings is usual for you, and showing what you’re capable of. It’s likely you had into new adventures. So take advantage of the configuration to look
concerning what your destiny might be. The planetary energy a mixture of successes and setbacks, but on the whole, improvements inside and find the source of some of your setbacks. This isn’t an
makes this a good time to stop thinking about such questions and have been steady. You might have noticed that something about you easy exercise, to be sure, but it will do you an enormous amount of
let your life take over. You are well prepared for this kind of thing! needed improvement, but isn’t that true for everyone? good. Just be honest with yourself.12 GULF TIMES Monday, June 15, 2020
COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES
Wordsearch Adam
Pooch Cafe
APPLE DUCK GOAT
JEANS MASK PANTS
SEAL VEST YACHT
BOOT EAGLE HOUSE
KILT NOSE QUILT
TIGER WAND ZEBRA
CLAM FAIRY INK
LEMON OBOE ROSE
UMBRELLA XYLOPHONE
Codeword
Every letter of the alphabet is used at least once.
Squares with the same number in have the same letter
in. Work out which number represents which letter.
Puzzles courtesy: Puzzlechoice.com
Garfield
Sudoku
Bound And Gagged
Sudoku is a puzzle based
on a 9x9 grid. The grid is
also divided into nine (3x3)
boxes. You are given a
selection of values and to
complete the puzzle, you
must fill the grid so that
every column, every anone
is repeated.Monday, June 15, 2020 GULF TIMES 13
PUZZLES COMMUNITY
Super Cryptic Clues Colouring
Across Down
1 Sweet police found in a ditch 2 Something chewed, filled with
(4,4) brilliant yellow sauce (7)
6 Time to get some sausages (3) 3 Mafia boss found in river (3)
9 Odd bits of brass in bowl (5) 4 Birds talk wildly to Poles (6)
10 Different sort of saviour (7) 5 Everlasting variety for Peter
11 A group on leave (7) and Paul (9)
13 Nobleman meeting youth 6 Love affair for one like Othello,
leader ahead of time (5) we hear (5)
14 First-born of Israel destined 7 Written work from Midwest, for
for central role? (6) example (5)
15 Sweet smell - and something 8 Burning a baker’s first loaf (6)
annoying (6) 12 Sister involved with sad
19 Wrongful acts for children? calamities (9)
That’s about right (5) 16 Disney film turning on Italian
21 Quandary for dreadful dim child (7)
male (7) 17 Burial places depicted by a
22 Have faith in cover held back poet (6)
by worker (7) 18 Redhead almost breaking
23 In a labyrinth I found corn (5) stick (6)
24 Half of Sicily is like this (3) 19 Container, as provided for
25 Animal skin to be treated (8) instruments (5)
20 Surviving custom that’s a bit
more licentious (5)
23 A chap from Romania (3)
Answers
Solution
Wordsearch Codeword14 GULF TIMES Monday, June 15, 2020
COMMUNITY BOLLYWOOD
Maniesh Paul: I have failed many times Why Monali Thakur I was like, ‘that’s not a bad idea
cast her husband in and paisa bhi bachega (it will save
Actor and television host video of new song money)’,” she laughed, adding: “So,
Maniesh Paul does not deny I went to Maik and told him that
he has failed many times and Playback singer Monali Thakur he would have to act in this video.
says he does not take failures shares the story behind casting her Finally, he did it.”
to heart. husband Maik Richter in her latest The song is composed by
“I have never taken failures music video, Dil ka fitoor. Kaushik and Guddu, while the
to heart. I will not deny I have Monali told IANS from lyrics are written by Shloke Lal.
failed a lot of times. I have Switzerland: “Honestly, Maik The video is shot in the majestic
given so many auditions and wasn’t the choice for the music Alps.
failed in so many of them, but video. Once we zeroed in on the Asked about the concept of the
it’s fine. I move on,” Maniesh concept, we went through the video, Monali said: “Now that I
told IANS. process of finding an actor-model have been staying here half the
For Maniesh, every failure is DEBUT: Maniesh made his for the video. We zeroed down to time, I have also seen the winter
an experience. Bollywood debut in 2013 with the film one very goodlooking model from of Switzerland. It is beautiful. NEW SONG: Monali Thakur says the
“I think I don’t take failure Mickey Virus. Germany to feature opposite me So, when we were working on the love story shown in the video of her
to heart because I think it is in the video. We also finished the concept of the video, I thought latest song is close to her reality.
the best learning. So, I take it as a learning experience and move on,” contractual work.” of showing these snowcapped
he added. The popular TV host, who is mostly known for his comic Then there was a twist in the mountains of Switzerland as a Of course he is a hotelier and does
streak, had earlier shared with IANS that he does not believe in the tale. backdrop, with a simple boy- not work in any hotel — like the one
word typecast. “Since we did not meet the meets-girl love story. I wanted to you guys saw in the music video.
Maniesh made his Bollywood debut in 2013 with the film Mickey model face to face, our DOP show the Swiss alpine life.” Mike and I exchanged glances
Virus. He was later seen in films like Ranbanka, Tere Bin Laden 2 Shiraz Bhattacharya of the video According to the singer, the love and we started liking each other
and Baa Baaa Black Sheep. Maniesh recently took a departure from wondered if my chemistry with the story that is shown in the video immediately. So, yes, the bottom
his image of wit and humour, and did a short film What If, a thriller model will look that great or not. is close to her reality. “In 2016, I line of the story what we see in the
around the subject of lockdown that was shot on a phone. Maniesh So, in the last moment they asked went to a place with my friends video is similar to my love story,”
has co-directed the film with Kartik Singh. – IANS me, ‘why don’t you take Maik?’ and brother and I saw Maik there. Monali signed off. – IANS
Tinseltown celebs shocked,
mourn young Sushant ’s death
C
ondolences from inspired me. Deepest condolences
Bollywood colleagues to his fans and family. RIP
continued to pour in #SushantSinghRajput,” he wrote.
all through yesterday, Anushka Sharma, who shared
as the news of Sushant screen space with Sushant in PK,
Singh Rajputs death became wrote: “Sushant, you were too
known. The actor was found young and brilliant to have gone so
hanging in his residence by his maid soon. I’m so sad and upset knowing
yesterday morning. that we lived in an environment
From superstars Akshay Kumar, that could not help you through
Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithtik Roshan any troubles you may have had.
and Saif Ali Khan, to co-stars May your soul rest in peace.” Along
and colleagues including Varun with the post, she shared a few stills
Dhawan, Disha Patani, Anushka from PK.
Sharma, Jacqueline Fernandez, Sushant’s MS Dhoni: The
and Kiara Advani, to filmmakers Untold Story co-star Kiara Advani
including Karan Johar, Ashwiny expressed: “Deeply saddened. My
Iyer Tiwari and Ekta Kapoor, heart goes out to Sushants family
everyone expressed shock while at this time. Reminiscing and
remembering the “young”, cherishing every moment of our
“talented” and “wonderful” actor Dhoni shoot. Can’t believe this..
on social media. gone too too soon. Broken heart.”
“He loved me so much... I will Jacqueline Fernandez posted
miss him so much. His energy, a video of a dance performance
enthusiasm and his full happy with Sushant. The actress, who YOUNG AND TALENTED: Sushant Singh was just 34.
smile. May Allah bless his soul co-starred with the late actor in the
and my condolences to his near digital film “Drive”, wrote: “Sush... my level of compassion and to my my baby,” Ekta wrote. Sidharth Ashwini tweeted. Earlier in the
and dear ones. This is extremely I’m so sorry... RIP.” ability to foster and protect my Malhotra remembered Sushant as day, as reported by IANS, several
sad....and so shocking,” Shah Rukh Karan Johar, who produced Drive equations.....I hope this resonates a “fellow colleague with such good of Sushant’s Bollywood colleagues
tweeted along with an image in posted a long, emotional note on with all of you as well....will miss work backing him” including Akshay Kumar, Shahid
which he can be seen sharing smiles Instagram. “I blame myself for not your infectious smile and your bear “Gone to soon, rest in peace Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan,
with the late actor. being in touch with you for the past hug,” wrote Johar. bro. My prayer with his family and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Riteish
Paying condolences to Sushant, year..... I have felt at times like you Saif Ali Khan wrote: “He was loved ones #SushantSinghRajput,” Deshmukh, Anurag Kashyap,
Hrithik Roshan tweeted: “Deeply may have needed people to share way too young with talent and he added. Filmmaker Ashwiny Dulquer Salmaan and Swara
saddened and shocked to hear your life with...but somehow I intelligence and a whole life ahead. Iyer Tiwari spoke about her future Bhasker, has expressed condolences
about Sushant. My heart goes out never followed up on that feeling... Terrible that he felt that this was plans with Sushant which they had over his shocking death.
to his family and loved ones. He will never make that mistake the way out. Very very sad.” discussed together. Sushant was just 34. News of
had so much life in him. Extremely again...we live in very energetic and Producer Ekta Kapoor, who “We had to discuss so many his death comes within days of
disheartening news.” noisy but still very isolated times introduced Sushant as the lead more unread books. Speak about the news of his manager Disha
Varun Dhawan recalled the ...some of us succumb to these actor in the hit TV show Pavitra biomimicry. So much more to Salian’s passing away. Sushant is
memorable time spent with silences and go within...we need Rishta, has posted a screenshot of explore in life. Why my dear one. best known for his titular role in
Sushant. “I really can’t believe this. to not just make relationships but her last conversation with Sushant Why God. So many more unread Neeraj Pandey’s 2016 release, MS
Sushant was a wonderful actor and also constantly nurture them.... on Instagram. books. Speak about biomimicry. Dhoni: The Untold Story, the biopic
I still remember the times I spent Sushants unfortunate demise has “Not fair Sushi. One week So much more to explore in life. of former Indian cricket captain
with him. His performance always been a huge wake up call to me ...to everything changed. Not fair Why my dear one. Why God,” Mahendra Singh Dhoni. — IANSYou can also read
