In the realm of avant-garde fashion, aesthetic ingenuity is celebrated above practicality or profitability.
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His father, Kidd Jordan, plays avant-garde saxophone, while his mother is a classical pianist.
But avant-garde didn't pay, and the Barrons decided to cash in by turning to Hollywood.
In the late 1990s, an avant-garde theater troupe began staging underground performances at the site.
The Russian avant-garde painting of the early 20th century is scarcely less wondrous in its way.
Hence the need for an avant-garde to keep the ideal of ever closer union alive.
The PRADA phones by LG were avant-garde in the technology they offered to users.
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The concept of a regional avant-garde is more justified in the installation by Sharits.
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Gaga got her start in the college coffeehouses and underground bars where avant-garde performances are par for the course.
The legendary cabaret was founded in 1951 by Alain Bernardin, an avant-garde artist who was fascinated by US showgirls.
Improbable though it may sound, American Christianity and Gianni Versace shared a taste for the avant-garde.
The avant-garde (literal translation, advance guard) valiantly leads the rest of the culture into the uncharted future.
The book is now an international sensation, hailed as the hip new face of the Chinese avant-garde.
His mentor as a young man, a great avant-garde stage director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, was executed in 1940.
Also, just for my own curiosity and sense of exploration, I wanted to start playing more avant-garde works.
Traditionally, avant-garde fashions serve a purpose independent from the rest of the fashion industry, celebrating artistic experimentation over commercialization.
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His training was as an avant-garde composer, with a reputation for assaulting audiences.
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And that style helped propel jazz through its most important developments - from swing to bebop to the avant-garde.
But he's also a New Yorker with a New York musician's characteristic enthusiasm for blending avant-garde and pop sensibilities.
Inside, red curtains hang over the stage which features a different local avant-garde act every night of the week.
An eccentric lord and avant-garde composer has been commemorated with a blue plaque.
And now it has gone from a radical avant-garde to a middle-class establishment.
If the avant-garde was still heard in the concert hall, the programme would be sugared with Mozart and Beethoven.
She works at a gallery, one of those avant-garde places that sell things you can find in a dumpster.
No wonder, then, that so many of them are experimenting with avant-garde technologies.
"Wish You Were Here" charts the rise of an international avant-garde as much as it does a local one.
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Johnson was a challenging and determinedly avant-garde writer, best known for his fiction.
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Yet signs indicate that the theatre may become more adventurous and avant-garde.
It opened at the end of 2009 and continues to big a big draw, even with its uncompromisingly avant-garde programme.
The Kronos Quartet, which is based in San Francisco, incorporates avant-garde rock and music from a variety of sources worldwide.
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