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Men's jacket from The Hunger

The Hunger is the seventh collection by British designer Alexander McQueen, for the Spring/Summer 1996 season of his fashion house. It was inspired by The Hunger, a 1983 erotic vampire horror film. Typically for early-career McQueen, the designs emphasised female sexuality and sharp tailoring, and it was his first collection to include menswear. The runway show was staged at London's Natural History Museum on 23 October 1995. Imagery of sexuality, violence, and death predominated, most notably in a corset of translucent plastic with real worms encased inside. Models bared their breasts and flashed obscene gestures on the runway, and the show concluded with McQueen mooning the audience. Critical reception was mixed, with some seeing McQueen's work as immature or misogynistic. Retrospective analysis has focused on the cinematic inspiration behind the collection and the gothic imagery of the worm corset. Garments from The Hunger appeared in the retrospective Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. (Full article...)

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Háry János poster

1384 – Jadwiga was officially crowned as "King of Poland" instead of "Queen" to reflect the fact that she was a sovereign in her own right.
1875 – Brigham Young University was founded in Provo, Utah, United States.
1926 – Háry János (poster pictured), a Hungarian folk opera by Zoltán Kodály, was premiered at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest.
1950 – The first novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was published in the United Kingdom.
2017 – The Maltese journalist and anti-corruption activist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb attack in Bidnija.

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The Portland Trail Blazers are a National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise and have played 56 seasons since their inaugural season in 1970. The team played its home games in the Memorial Coliseum before moving to the Moda Center (pictured) in 1995. The Blazers have an all-time regular season record of 2,370 wins and 2,156 losses; in the playoffs, they have 120 wins and 159 losses. They have had 33 winning seasons, 20 losing seasons, and 3 seasons with a 41–41 record and have reached the postseason 38 times, including a streak of 21 straight appearances from 1983 through 2003. The Blazers had their first winning record during the 1976–77 season, in which they made the playoffs for the first time, going on to win the 1977 NBA Finals against the Philadelphia 76ers 4–2 with Bill Walton named the NBA MVP. The team also reached the Finals in 1990 and 1992, but lost both series. Damian Lillard played for the Blazers from 2012 to 2023 and is the franchise's all-time points leader with 19,376. (Full list...)

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Windsor City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The mayor's office and Windsor City Council are housed in the main building at 350 City Hall Square West, while additional city services are located in an adjacent building at 400 City Square East in downtown Windsor. The building was designed by Moriyama & Teshima Architects and was completed in 2018 at a cost of CA$30 million.

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