Glamour Quiz 2016 - Lakshana, Raj, Siri (March 2016)

KQA 2016
Glamour Quiz
Lakshana
Raj
Siri

- Teams of 4 (RANDOMIZED LOLZ)
- SlideShow is Final
- Pounce (+10/-5) on alternate questions

Written Round
Clockwise Round
ID: A to Z
Anti-Clockwise Round
Written Round Headgear

Written Round
12 Questions
+ 5 per answer

________ is a genre of largely Italian-made historical or
biblical epics (costume dramas) that dominated the Italian
film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in
1965 by the Spaghetti Western.
The terms ______ (referring to the Greek and Roman
garment worn by characters in the films) and "sword-and-
sandal" were used in a condescending way by film critics.
Later, the terms were embraced by fans of the films, similar
to the terms "spaghetti western" or "shoot-'em-ups”.
1

3
All these stars are wearing products from
this iconic brand, which was founded in
1924 as an all-weather product maker for
motorcyclists & aviators.
The brand’s most well known product in
the recent past, however, is not pictured
here.
Name the brand and what’s its most well
known for now?
(Pictures on next slide)

In 2015, this fast fashion brand collaborated with Hana Tajima,
a UK based designer, to release this line of “modest fashion” aimed at
the huge population of fashion forward, but conservative Muslims
across the world. Name the brand.
4

The showstoppers at this show from last year’s LIFW were 22
artisans from SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association) who
represented this pret & couture designer’s new initiative which
seeks to revive traditional crafts by marrying them with
contemporary design. Name the designer and the initiative.
5

This painting, of a singer and poet from the court
of king Savant Singh of Kishangarh, has been
labeled India's "Mona Lisa". Her name, which
translates to “decked up/ Lady of Fashion”, and
face have become something of the standard for
female beauty in the Kishangarh school of
miniature painting. Name the woman/style of
painting. (Image follows)
6

Long before white girls made them a
standard of festival chic, floral wreaths were
made and worn by women in East India
(West Bengal, Bangladesh, Assam, Tripura
and Orissa) for this different sort of festival.
What is the occasion?
(Pics in next slide)
7

Co-founders Frank Angelo and Frank Toskan,
both gay men, created the __X_ AIDS Fund in
‘94, and have raised over $300 million
through the sale of the __a__ __b__ product
range, which was created exclusively to raise
money and awareness for HIV/AIDS.
X is also known for being one of the few
brands that openly & unapologetically
markets its products to male consumers.
Name the company & the product.
8

Variants of this fabric had poetic names likes
flowing water, evening dew and woven air.
Once highly prized by everyone from the
fashionable women of Rome to women of
Regency Britain, it is no longer produced
quite as finely as it was in its heyday and has
fallen from grace over the past few centuries,
but now finds use in everything from surgery
to cooking to photography.
What are we talking about? 9

This is Ben Melzer,
and he will be seen
on the April 2016
cover of Men’s
Health Germany.
What about this
cover makes it so
newsworthy?
9

10
Who made this uncharitable comparison when
asked if his once collaborator and now nemesis had
overtaken his success?

Their contribution to Finance?
11

Line by John Galliano, “inspired by” what? 12

3
All these stars are wearing products from this iconic
brand, which was founded in 1924 as an all-weather
product maker for motorcyclists & aviators.
The brand’s most well known product in the recent past,
however, is not pictured here.
Name the brand and what’s its most well known for now?
(Pictures on next slide)

Anita Dongre, “Grassroots”

He’s the first trans man to be on the cover
(and by popular vote)

The Big Short used Selena Gomez, Margot
Robbie and Anthony Bourdain to explain
complex concepts like CDOs etc

Line by John Galliano, “inspired by” what?

This 1915 ad from
Harper’s Bazaar is widely
considered to the first ad
to make a case for what?
1

What do Celso Santabanes, Rodrigo Alves,
Quentin Dehar and Justin Jedlica have in common?
2

All want/wanted to be living Ken dolls

There has been much talk of this person’s
interest in a particular brand. Ads for this line of
shirts even come with a pun that falls a little
short of clever and is somewhat irrelevant to the
overall message. Never mind more serious
inaccuracies. Who/ What is the line called?
+picture on next slide
3

The following slide is a Rap Genius-
generated graph of the most used luxury
brand names in rap lyrics. Which are the
top two brands? (5 points each)
4

These are some looks from the two capsule
collections designed by Janie Bryant for Banana
Republic.
Who is she and what is the inspiration for these
two collections?
5

Mad Men collections
She’s the Costume Lead.

This is Betty Davis,
American funk
singer, sometime
wife of Miles Davis,
Jimi Hendrix &
Santana
collaborator
and fierce fashion
icon.
Which glamorous
brand owes its
name to her, or
more specifically, to
her 1975 album?6

Google Trends graph for web searches in India for
a luxury brand. Which one?
7

What is a “push gift” or “push present”?
8

This is a gift given to a new mother
for giving birth to a child, usually by her baby daddy.

American Apparel ads
tend to be controversial
and sleazy af anyway,
but what was the
headline on this ad that
made it particularly
controversial?
9

These shoes are part of
YSL’s 2011 Monochromatic
Collection. They became
the subject of a lawsuit by a
famous label. The lawsuit
was eventually dismissed
with a new interpretation
of an existing trademark.
Who sued YSL and Why?
What was the resolution?
10

The designer had been working on a prototype
inspired by Andy Warhol’s Flowers. But he
recalled that his creation just didn’t “Pop”.
The near historic feature never came to be if it
weren’t for an assistant who was painting her
nails, prompting a sudden flash of inspiration.
“Then it popped,' he recalled, 'and I thought, This
is the drawing.”

Christian Louboutin’s trademark red soles. The
Court ruled that YSL hadn’t necessarily infringed
upon Louboutin’s trademark. The new
interpretation was that any brand was free to
design shoes with red soles only so long as the rest
of the shoe was red.

"When I looked at the
architecture, the structure of
buildings that were going up
worldwide, you saw a whole
different look, in shape”
Name the hairdresser
whose _________
architecture inspired hair
cuts established the world
of modern hair dressing as
we know it.
11

This is a fashion trend inspired by the Aki Narula
designed look of the heroine in this Bollywood hit.
Name the film that lends its name to this style.
12

A 2014 Puma ad claimed to have solved one of football’s longest
running problems:
“There are so many variables that can change the game. If you’re
the boss, you have to focus. You can’t let anything break your
concentration, not even ________.
“The consequences of a malfunction can take you out of your
zone, instantly. That’s what Puma considered when choosing
______…
“We studied the way he focuses on the game, we studied his
hands, the pace of his ________.”
“We think we nailed it.”
What problem did Puma solve? 13

“Love has become too commercial, yet life without love
is nothing – a fat zero. What modern people want are
love symbols that look semi-permanent – or, at least,
require a trick to remove. After all, love symbols should
suggest an everlasting quality” - Aldo Cipullo, designer.
This product line has, since its launch in 1969,
become one of the best selling lines from this brand
and has been worn by everyone from Elizabeth Taylor
to Pippa Middleton & Lindsey Lohan.
Name the product and the brand it belongs to.
14

The Cartier
“Love Bracelet”

A handwritten letter that accompanied a
parcel of ______ fabric was misinterpreted by
a merchant who thought the fabric had a
trade name taken from the river _______ in
the land of its origin. Thanks to that
misinterpretation, the fabrics were
advertised with this new name and have
been known as such since.
What are we talking about?
15

Siva Vaidyanathan in The Baffler wonders if American
Higher Education is a/an ___A___ _____.
“Elite higher education in America has long been one— it obeys few,
if any, conventional laws of economic activity. In some cases (chiefly
among the children of the serene professional elders perusing the
Sunday New York Times), the higher the sticker price of a particular
college or university, the more attractive it is.
Raise the price and then offer a “discount,” and applications will fly
in and better students will enroll. Private colleges and universities
figured out this marketing strategy about twenty years ago. That’s a
major reason that private college tuition has skyrocketed over the
same time span, often at more than double the rate of inflation.”
16

The oldest theory of distribution is the __ B __ theory described
by ____A____ in 1899. To function, this depends upon a
hierarchical society and a striving for upward mobility among the
various social strata. In this model, a style is first offered and
adopted by people at the top strata of society and gradually
becomes accepted by those lower in the strata.
Fashion is considered a vehicle of ___C___, the most famous
term coined by A, and upward mobility for those seeking to copy
styles of dress. Once the fashion is adopted by those below, the
affluent reject that and look for another.
Bonus points for all three (+5) 16

A – Veblen Good named after Thorstein Veblen
B – Trickle Down Fashion
C- Conspicuous Consumption also coined by Veblen

Theme: Headgear
<Insert rules here>

It took the form of a bag, made of wool, usually
red, or sometimes purple, and today is a symbol
of Catalan identity. Pic (L): Salvador Dali.

It is a historical hat widely adopted in the 1790s as
an item of uniform by European and American
military and naval officers. Pic: Napoleon.

A fitted, bell-shaped hat for women that was
invented in 1908 by milliner Caroline Reboux. Its
name is derived from the French word for “bell”.
Famous wearers: Most famous women in the
early 20s.

A pointed hat of conical form
that is used in Spain. It is part
of the uniform of some
brotherhoods including the
Nazarenos and Fariseos
during Easter observances and
reenactments in some areas
during Holy Week in Spain.
It is NOT the same as pointed
hoods used by KKK.

A pointed hat, formerly used as an article of discipline in schools.
Typically made of paper and often marked with a D, and given to
unruly schoolchildren to wear, who were made to stand in the corner
facing the wall.

A felt headdress of two types: either in the shape of a truncated cone
made of red felt, or a short cylinder made of kilim fabric, both usually
with a tassel attached to the top. They gained popularity during the
Ottoman Empire.
Matt Smith’s Doctor declared them “cool”.

Ceremonial head-dress of bishops and certain
abbots in traditional Christianity. Associated with
Bishops, Abbots and Popes. Origin of the symbol
for bishops in chess.

Also called graduation cap or Oxford cap, is an item of academic dress
consisting of a horizontal square board fixed upon a skull-cap, with a
tassel attached to the centre. Give the name it gets because of its
similarity in appearance to the hawk used by bricklayers.

This hat gets its name from its similarity to a
culinary dish. It was popularized by Buster
Keaton in the 1920s, and most recently, Walter
White of Breaking Bad.

X is a felt hat with a wide brim and indented crown. It is
typically creased lengthwise down the crown and
"pinched" near the front on both sides. It is also
frequently wrongly associated with neckbeards on the
internet. Famous wearers include Indiana Jones.
Y has a sharper crown and much narrower brim, and is
what is actually worn by neckbeards on the internet. X
and Y?
X
Y

Answers (In order)
1. Barretina
2. Bicorne
3. Cloche
4. Capirote
5. Dunce
6. Fez / Tarboosh
7. Mitre
8. Mortarboard
9. Pork pie hat
10. X = Fedora, Y = Trilby

Anti-Clockwise Round (16 Questions)

From 1966 to 1975, these were the snazzy
summer and winter uniforms of
the flight attendants of a particular airline.
The uniform, especially the slim line trousers,
set off fashion trends in the airline’s home
country.
Name the airline and the French designer
who designed these looks.
1

This hairstyle is known by many names, but the latest
name for them was one of the most searched for hair
terms on Google in 2015. What is the search term and
why is this style controversial at all? 2

Boxer braids.
(Black people are claiming cultural
appropriation of corn rows.)

Pink Cadillac
(Bruce had a song, Clint had a movie, Elvis
had the first & most well known and Mary
Kay Ash of Mary Kay cosmetics, who was
well known for giving her top performing
Pink Cadillacs)

This fashion designer’s whimsical and outlandish
collaborations with Adidas since 2008 have been a
pop culture phenomenon, with his most iconic
sneaker design (not pictured here) being worn by
everyone from Kanye to Anne Hathaway.
Who are we talking about & what is the sneaker
design not pictured here?
5

These are two ads
from the 1950s for
Bengal’s legendary
Jabakusum beauty oil.
Who designed these
ads?
7

Known as the “Godfather of Exotica”, this “child prodigy
born in New Delhi to a Brahmin priest and a French opera
singer”, was for nearly a decade the most famous Indian
in the US, thanks to his exotic TV show “Adventures in
Music”. Identify him and the new age instrument he
played on his TV show.
(+5 if you can tell us what made him so unusual)
8

Korla Pandit, the electric organ. He was a Black
man.

These remarkably dapper looking men are seated on
the famous X wall, *the* place to see and be seen
(and photographed endlessly) at the __X__ __Y__, a
biannual trade show in Florence, Italy considered to
be the most important international event for
menswear and men’s accessories. Name the show.
9

This is the core of the row over private
equity: do firms want to grow the
companies they buy or do they just want to
take them to bits for personal gain? Have
they watched ______ _______ to the end or did
they turn off half way through when
Edward was still a rotten piece of work?
Many articles on Private Equity use this film to explain the industry. Essentially,
two different approaches to PE form a part of the narrative arc of this film and
one of the main characters’ coming of age, even though Private Equity itself is
largely incidental to the movie.
10

Women Xs are subject to a strict dress code.
Patterns are "too busy”, and there are
regulations on sleeve length. Consultants often
instruct them on colors they are allowed to
wear (green is understandably banned, while
white is discouraged).
In 2015, a user on a Facebook group for Xs
posted a link to an $23 dress on Amazon which
fit the bill (pic). Since then, the dress went viral
as more and more Xs across the country began
sporting the outfit, until they were completely
sold out. X? 11

Sonic’s character designer Naoto Ohshima, when
asked about Sonic’s shoes: “His shoes were
inspired by the cover to X’s <album>, which
contrasted heavily between white and red — that
Santa Claus-type color. I also thought that red went
well for a character who can run really fast, when
his legs are spinning.”
X was also rumored to have worked on the
soundtrack for Sonic 3 (1994), which was
confirmed by a Huffington Post expose in January
2016. X and album?
12

She recently wrote about her Oscar De La Renta wedding
dress (Although how she could afford it is interesting):
I wanted to acknowledge my South Asian heritage and wear my
grandmother’s gold choker that my mother and sisters had all
worn before me. But that didn’t mean I knew what I wanted to
wear. Somehow Oscar did. The first was a fitted strapless
column dress — a dress he knew someone as conservative as I
would never wear, but he said with his trademark sly smile that
he couldn’t be blamed for trying a sexy option on a young bride.
He also sketched a cap-sleeved gown that was fitted on top and
flared out toward the bottom. Instantly we knew this was “the
one.”
Oscar’s idea of detailed embroidery on the bodice and on the
sheer cap sleeve was the perfect mix of East and West. I showed
him the choker and an embroidery design inspired by it. That
was it. 13

Made (even more) famous recently, how?
14

This fashion video, featuring the hugely popular
Japanese dance duo AyaBambi, was released by
Vogue in June 2015 to celebrate a landmark
moment.
What was the occasion and why were they
chosen (apart from being fiercely fashionable, of
course)?
15

“___________ advertising” is a trend that began
in the early-mid 90s and was personified by
the ex Disney stars like and brands like Hot
Topic and VS Pink.
Four defining themes that characterize this:
- An emphasis on the female body
- A shift from sexual objectification of the body
by others to self objectification
- Presentation of women as sexually assertive
and in charge of their own eroticism and
- An emphasis on gaining power through sexual
attractiveness.

The film is “Short White Wedding”
Aya Sato and Bambi are engaged to be wed,
despite gay marriage being
illegal/unconstitutional in their home
country of Japan.
As of June 2015, it is no longer
unconstitutional in the United States.

A-Z of Glamour
(in ~60 seconds)
10 points for 8
15 points for 16
25 points for 24 or more

Ashley Graham
Brogues
Chiffon
Dita Von Teese
Epaulettes
Filigree
Grillz
High Tops
Ikat
J
Kediyo
Latex
Minaudiere
Nikhil Thampi
Ombre
Pebble
Queue
R
Shibori
Tanzanite
Under Armour
Vajazzle
W
X
Y
Z

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