I am pretty sure the Mercury Office Manager sent me the link to this piece on The Rodnick Band‘s new collection, “Venus In Sequin” as a joke, but I kind of love it. You can view the entire collection—which also includes famous works of art by folks like Warhol and Van Gogh, among others, reimagined as party dresses—here, but the Duchamp urinal is by far the piece de résistance:

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I love it, and even though I’m sure it costs a princely sum, if you wore this to a party that got out of hand and someone tried to pee in your urinal dress as a joke, yes you would be justifiably mad about the threat of the dry cleaning bill, you would also have to admit that you were kind of asking for it, and that it would probably make for a pretty funny story later.
MOD: Giving you a pass to pee on our dress once every 500 years.

Marjorie Skinner is the Portland Mercury's Managing Editor, author of the weekly Sold Out column chronicling the area's independent fashion and retail industry, and a frequent contributor to the film and...

3 replies on “Would You Wear Duchamp’s Urinal As A Dress? What If I Told You There Were Sequins Involved?”

  3. I think maybe this must be too avant garde for my ass, because I just find it hedious beyond words.
    You wrote about Warhol before too, correct?
    Ever hear “Songs for Drella”?
    I have refused to see that film “I shot Andy Warhol” because making a film about the Nameless One glorifies her dumb ass in a strange way.

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