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1. “We Were Eight Years
in Power” by Ta-Nehisi

6B — Thursday, January 4, 2018
the b-side
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

Best Style Moments 2017 Best Books of the year

PIRELLI’S

The Pirelli corporation has
been
publishing
artistically-
inclined calendars since 1964,
but none have made a statement
as great as their 2018 project,
unveiled in November of 2017.
Shot by the legendary Tim
Walker, “The Cal” features an

all-Black cast in an adaptation
of
“Alice’s
Adventures
in
Wonderland.” TV personality
RuPaul makes for a spellbinding
Queen of Hearts, model Duckie
Thot stole our hearts as Alice and
the aforementioned Slick Woods
portrays an eerily convincing

Mad Hatter. If it’s not obvious
yet, this is about far more than
a calendar: In 2017, Pirelli
reminded the fashion industry
that minorities have every right
to their own beautiful narratives.

—Tess Garcia, Daily Style Editor

1. Pirelli’s 2018 calendar

In October, Dutch designer
Liselore Frowijn threw Paris
Fashion Week for a loop: Not
only was her Spring Summer
2018 show bereft of celebrities,
but the rising star used the
runway
as
an
opportunity
for social commentary. The

20-look production celebrated
Mexican culture with vibrant
patterns,
billowy,
climate-
appropriate
separates
and
frequent
reference
to
the
nation’s flag. Stoic faces of
models boasted phrases like
“Batalla” and “No Wall,” an

obvious dig at the Trump
administration. That’s a bold
move for a talent as fresh as
Frowijn, who earned her BA in
2013, and it certainly paid off.
Look out for this one.

—Tess Garcia, Daily Style Editor

2. Liselore Frowijn SS18

In October, Dutch designer
Liselore Frowijn threw Paris
Fashion Week for a loop: Not
only was her Spring Summer
2018 show bereft of celebrities,
but the rising star used the
runway as an opportunity for
social commentary. The 20-look

production celebrated Mexican
culture with vibrant patterns,
billowy,
climate-appropriate
separates and frequent reference
to the nation’s flag. Stoic faces
of
models
boasted
phrases
like “Batalla” and “No Wall,”
an obvious dig at the Trump

administration. That’s a bold
move for a talent as fresh as
Frowijn, who earned her BA in
2013, and it certainly paid off.
Look out for this one.

—Tess Garcia, Daily Style
Editor

3. Fenty Beauty release

It’s still unclear how Virgil
Abloh evolved from a Kanye
West background player into
an A-list fashion influencer in
just two short years. However,
it couldn’t be any clearer that
2017 belonged to him: After
designing
limited
edition
concert merchandise for Travis
Scott,
guest-speaking
at
a
series of Ivy League colleges
(including
Harvard)
and
watching his staple clothing
label (OFF-WHITE) be anointed

a GQ-darling, Abloh linked with
Nike for a collaborative sneaker
collection. Unsurprisingly, the
resulting
kicks
became
the
year’s most-hyped.
Virgil Abloh’s “The Ten”
collection was first teased on
Twitter, where the creative
director spent months sharing
photographs of his re-designed
Air Jordan 1s prior to their
official release. In the shots,
many of which became viral
hits, he’s shown scribbling well-

known nicknames (such as “Air
La Flame” for Travis Scott) on
pairs’ rubber soles — a subtle
sign of customization which
doubled as organic marketing.
When the collection finally
dropped though, it featured
remixes of nine other iconic
Nike classics from Abloh and
sold out instantly, crashing the
brand’s SNKRS release platform
in the process.

—Sal DiGioia, Daily Arts Writer

4. “The Ten” collection

All in a year’s work for
Slick
motherf*cking
Woods.
Nick Remsen’s profile of Slick
Woods, an androgynous, gap-
toothed model who this year
rose to fame, is short and sweet,
but its mere existence speaks
wonders. In 2017, it became
possible
for
norm-defying

beauties like Woods to grace
fashion’s
most
prestigious
runways, to be featured in
global
makeup
campaigns
(more on Fenty Beauty above)
and, put bluntly, to be in Vogue
(double entendre intended). A
bald-headed, tomboyish woman
of color has been dubbed “the

Face of the New American
Style” by the world’s most
respected fashion publication.
Together, Remsen and Woods
have left a permanent wound
on the face of conventional
fashion.

—Tess Garcia, Daily Style Editor

5. Woods’s Vogue editorial

Lil Uzi Vert had a wildly
successful year — one that
few artists in history have
matched blow-for-blow. After
opening for The Weeknd on
Starboy’s European tour, the
Philadelphia-raised
crooner
enjoyed a summer residency
atop Billboard charts (with
breakout hit “XO Tour Llif3”
spending 39 weeks on the
scoreboard) and even earned
a number one album (via his
major-label debut, Luv Is Rage
2). Still though, the most talked-
about aspect of Uzi’s viral fame
this year was his obscure,
often
close-to-the-edge

style. His rise to prominence
perfectly coincides with the
reemergence
of
emo-trendy
and, as a rainbow-haired sad-
boy who’s effectively paved
his own lane in hip hop, Uzi is
a figurehead of the movement.
Known
for
crossing
boundaries in song, dress and
syntax, Lil Uzi Vert hardly
deviated from his norm when
he posed for a now-famous
photograph while donning a
pink, striped Valentino blouse,
a white-gold, spiked choker
and a Guoyard bag over his
shoulder. Of course, the photo
made waves online, evolving

into an iconic meme within
the hip-hop community and
earning threads of backlash
from veteran emcees (who
argued that Uzi looked soft).
Yet, for youthful streetwear
nerds
and
fashionable
rap
fans alike, its surrounding
conversations only cemented
Lil Uzi Vert’s position as the
most influential newbie in the
game. Of course 50 Cent was
jealous — where the fuck is he?

—Sal DiGioia, Daily Arts Writer

6. Lil Uzi Vert donning
blouse, chokers, purse

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For most of us, 2017 was a year
synonymous with the beginning
of Trump’s presidency. Starting
in January, we said goodbye
to the age of President Obama
and hello to the madness that
the White House has been ever
since, which has arguably done
more than anything else to color

the course of this year. For this
reason, the most important
book published in 2017 has
been Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “We
Were Eight Years in Power: An
American Tragedy,” a collection
of eight essays published over the
course of Obama’s eight years of
presidency.
Coates
combines
compelling personal narrative
with impeccable research to
paint a comprehensive picture
of American life from all angles

— from slavery to politics to
entertainment, from the very
beginnings
of
America
to
its current state. One of the
most
multifaceted,
cohesive
and well-researched books of
recent years, it is also one of
the most significant, especially
during a time when history
and facts themselves are being
questioned.
—Laura Dzubay, Daily Arts
Writer

Coates

2. “Hunger: A Memoir of
(My) Body” by Roxane
Gay

“Hunger: A Memoir of (My)
Body” is a thought-provoking,
moving and transformational
book
that
challenges
the
assumptions of physicality and
reveals
the
deeply
intimate
relationship between psyche and
body. Roxane Gay, the incredibly
sharp and resonant author of
“Bad Feminist” and “Difficult
Women,” explores the struggles

of being fat in a fat-phobic world,
the irrevocably damaging effects
of trauma and the dynamics
of constructing a reality. Gay’s
memoir reads quickly but leaves
a lasting impact. With her frank
and pointed writing, Gay brings
attention to the physicality of
everything — the body, food,
skin, movement — and forces
you to think about the tactility
of occupying space. The book
is not a story of one woman’s
triumph over her demons and
finding peace, but is instead

a gripping attempt to wrestle
the representation of unruly
bodies from a prejudice culture
and to reclaim the narrative.
Roxane
Gay
criticizes
the
hypocrisies of culture that push
women to criticize themselves
while affirming her legitimacy
as a woman and as a person.
“Hunger” is one that sticks with
you and forces you to look at the
world around you with careful
perspective.
—Sydney Cohen, Daily Arts
Writer
3. “Gather the Daughters”
by Jennie Melamed

“Gather the Daughters” is one
of the best debut novels I’ve read in
the past few years. Perfect for any
lovers of current timely and classic
favorites — “The Handmaid’s Tale”
in particular, and “The Giver” as
well — it tells the tale of a world in
which women, once they reach a
certain age, have one final summer
of freedom left before they are to
be married off and have children.
Except the generation of youth

that serves as the focal point of
this story are getting restless, and
asking questions that the older
men in charge of the community
would prefer remain unspoken.
The future of these girls and their
unprecedented rebellion hinges
on qualities that are as ferocious
as they are delicate: the fierceness
of a young girl’s love of freedom,
another’s hunger for knowledge
and a third’s tragic desire to just

get out. It is a heartbreaking
story conveyed in gorgeous, often
startlingly poetic prose. I can’t
remember the last time I sat down
and read a book in one sitting
without intending to — but “Gather
the Daughters” almost requires it.
—Sophia Kaufman, Daily Arts
Writer

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