As usual, we started our day in looking for a restaurant. This time, the restaurant is near West Village area. We targeted Mary’s Fish Camp first. After getting off subway, we walked and walked, finally, we found it closed. Then, we immediately targeted for Marinella Restaurant instructed by Baba. We walked and walked. Mimi was distracted by the flowers along the street. She asked Baba to take some pictures of them. Here you are,
Wow, John B. Snook designed this building. He is also the one who designed the first Grand Central Depot.
Finally, we arrived at Marinella Restaurant. It is Italian Cuisine. I am sure that Mimi, Papa, Baba, Mama and Li Cao enjoyed the food there. As for me, I practiced Chinese GongFu using what was available at that time, knife and spoon.
吼！
喝！
多谢捧场！
We took Taxi to the Metropolitan Museum of Art after we finished eating. When we entered the entrance of the museum, we were told that we cannot miss the Alexander McQueen fashion exhibition. Nobody had any idea who Alexander McQueen was and we went for it anyway. There was a line there and we could not find the end. Somehow, we were given first pass because they saw Papa’s scooter. Yeah!
The name of the exhibition was called “Savage Beauty”. I did see a beauty of darkness, sadness and romance there. The fashion designer, Alexander McQeen, was a son of a taxi driver. He started to make dresses for his three sisters at a young age and announced his intention of becoming a fashion designer. He remembered at age of 3, that he drew a picture of a dress on a piece of bare wall. McQueen jokingly called it his first design sketch. Alexander McQueen earned a title “the hooligan of English fashion” by the reputation for controversy and shock tactics he developed in his early runway collections. He was known for his spring 2003 collection, spring 2005’s human chess game and his fall 2006 show, Widows of Culloden, which featured a life-sized hologram of supermodel Kate Moss, dressed in yards of rippling fabric. [1]
Here are some of his sayings, [2]
“You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.”
“People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don’t see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.”
“I try to push the silhouette. To change the silhouette is to change the thinking of how we look. What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There’s a lot of tribalism in the collections.”
“I have always loved the mechanics of nature and to a greater or lesser extent my work is always informed by that.”
We ended no time to look other things in the Museum. So we had Li Cao took our family picture there to prove that we did visit the Museum.
On the way back to Li Cao’s apartment, we walked through Central Park for a short distance. When we arrived at Li Cao’s apartment, we found this,
Xiejie is the one who made it happen. Mama commented that the dinner is the finest Hunan’s meals she ever ate in America.
After dinner, I had this sweet moment with Papa.
References:
1. http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Alexander_McQueen
2. http://blog.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen/about/
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