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Post #107940 by Gigantalope on Thu, Aug 12, 2004 8:26 AM

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Between the wars, the influance of commercial trash actually started to influance isolated cultures. I belive a particularly noteworthy example was the "M" shape from Camels surfacing in woven fabrics.

There are women in the Andes too, who still wear those bowlers. The story goes that some hat salesman was stranded there...

The Chapman Exhibit has a Jeff Koons-like quality to it, I hope they make some of those icons and sell them. (Banility?)

I'm lovin it