You saw the Witchery and Wizardry photo shoot Dana Goldstein did with Pete Voelker for this issue where everyone’s running around like a sewer-tunnel druid who has no scruples. As good as it looks, that shit’s staged. You have to go buy it all, it doesn’t already exist in someone’s closet. But here our friend Beverly shares her own personal cloak collection…
Archive for March, 2009
Akiko’s style tips - Band T-shirts
I’m in America touring with PRE right now. We played at SXSW and we are now on the west coast. It’s been great fun. But today I’m pissed off and I’ve got some things to say something about band T-shirts.
Jordan Mattos makes T-Shirts for VHS geeks
28-year-old NYU grad Jordan Mattos’ T-Shirts are one off doodles. But, you could also call them illustrated interpretations of the sort of film collection you imagine all those kids with Nitzer Ebb haircuts in Berlin have – Mattos studied film and understands obscure cool; he lives in Long Island City for God’s sakes. Read more »
What are you wearing? special: Man Like Me
Vice: So, what’s your favourite outfit?
Man Like Me: Anything Moschino, basically.
Interesting. So would you say Moschino is your favourite designer then?
Erm, yeah, hands down. I prefer their older stuff though, from the 90s and stuff. I also like Ralph Lauren a lot. Read more »
Fashion slave diary, day two and three
Thinking of pursuing a career in “trop chic” fashion? Time to reconsider – a career in taxidermy or even body farming totally beats the shit out of the pointless dreadfulness of high-fashion-sweatshop-hell that our Swedish friend writes about in her first diary entry. Here’s day two and three. Read more »
Fashion slave diary, day one
A Swedish girl we know landed the kind of internship students will kill for (and then want to kill themselves afterward) at a super fancy European design house. She kindly agreed to keep a diary and sent us two weeks’ worth of entries. Starting right now you’ll get a daily look at how working in this glamorous world is more degrading than collecting rubbish – you ARE rubbish to them. Internships are for being treated like dirt, yes, but this is of a certain Rococo stink-line variety. Of course she couldn’t let us use any real names or places as those queenie fashion houses make everyone sign pile after pile of papers guaranteeing their secrecy… Read more »
Introducing… David Lindwall
At 24, David Lindwall had no right to be bored out of his mind. He got paid to DJ at fashion parties, modeled – even though he’d survived some flesh-eating disease, lived in Hollywood and worked for Swedish menswear company J Lindberg. Read more »
How to make your new-born baby look like a whore
If you’ve been in search of a new easy, affordable way to sex-up the way your toddler dresses, you are in luck. Following on from their baby stiletto range, American company Heelarious has introduced a “sassy” but affordable new slut boot into the baby market. These high-heeled knee-high boots have been made from patent leather, have silk lining on the inside and have soft heels so your little princess can look like a mini prostitute in complete comfort and safety. They are available for kiddies as young as 0 months, which means you can get them trotting about in a pair pretty much as soon as they pop out.
The ginger resurgence
Either redheads have been getting way more action over the past few decades than we all thought, or L’Oreal’s sales of red hair dye have gone supersonic, because there are a hell of a lot of new gingers out there at the moment. Read more »
Fashion people are easily excited by pink
This year the fashion world has gone slightly too nuts about the fact that it is Barbie’s 50th birthday. Not least because Barbie is not a real human, but a brand of plastic doll which, in the face of Bratz, most twelve-year-old girls probably think is a lezza. Anyway, 50 designers (Vera Wang, Marchesa, Diane von Furstenberg) have been commissioned to design outfits inspired by the doll, which won’t be too much of a creative stretch considering Barbie is designed to look like a tall thin woman… But hey, these children’s toy people throw good parties and the one at Colette was amazing.
