[Ads-l] "trikini" as WOTY candidate

[Laurence Horn]

> On May 19, 2020, at 4:30 PM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> I tried the *People* and ABC News links that Lawrence provided. ABC
> produced an error message, "This page either does not exist or is currently
> unavailable”,


True enough; it was apparently taken down. But the People piece is still available for clicking.  And here’s one from the New York Post 
https://nypost.com/2020/05/14/meet-the-trikini-beach-fashions-answer-to-coronavirus/
with the very same paisley pattern and the very same nod to the wonderfully yclept Italian designer, Tiziana Scaramuzzo.  No wet suit involved.

Larry

> but also a search field. So I searched ABC News for "trikini"
> and found the  article on a different webpage,
> https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Style/designer-launches-trikini-beachwear-design-complete-matching-bikini/story
> (compare the earlier link,
> https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/style/story/designer-launches-trikini-beachwear-design-complete-matching-bikini-70657609
> )
> with the title "Designer launches 'trikini' beachwear design, complete with
> matching bikini and mask set."
> 
> It included a 44-second video. But the video, for which I couldn't find a
> separate URL, isn't about any kind of trikini. It's statically captioned on
> the page, "The facekini is the bizarre beauty beach trend that has us in
> awe". (The caption appears on the page as part of an image; I opened the
> HTML to copy this.) And the facekini, as far as this video is concerned,
> isn't a bikini or bikini-plus at all, but a full-head plastic mask, with no
> matching bodywear except in the last scene, where it matches a full-body
> wet suit. The sound track is music, no speech, but each static scene except
> the introductory moving sequence has a caption. According to these, the
> facekini is "a stylish and protective face mask popular in China" and is
> "the new trend that will shield your face from the sun".
> 
> Mark Mandel
> 
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:53 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> and eventually least likely to succeed, but still...
>> 
>> https://people.com/style/trikini-is-bikini-with-matching-face-mask/
>> 
>> https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Style/designer-launches-trikini-beachwear-design-complete-matching-bikini/story
>> 
>> The Xkini reanalysis itself is old hat, as it were, dating back to Rudi
>> Gernreich's late, (un)lamented "monokini" from 1964,
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monokini.  But "trikini" is, I'm pretty
>> sure,
>> brand-new for the season.
>> 
>> LH
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