A couple of weeks ago on just another, cloudy Parisian morning, facing the computer with coffee and cigarette, an OMG!” mail pops up on my screen. What’s it gonna be this time, fresh pics of some celebrity’s armpit? Nah, it was something way more interesting, a j-peg from the McQ and US discount store TARGET’s new lookbook. It’s no big deal if Mr McQueen collaborates with TARGET. But… Isn’t that me on that print? Is my face really spread on that blondish girl’s breast ? OMG! People are gonna be wearing my face.
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Posted on April 29th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Tagged: Alban Adam, models, Steve McQueen, TARGET
Lagerfeld is Never Happy Anyway is a German documentary from 2000 when he was in his fat stage. Rather than post the whole hour long film with all the bits of boring old fashion, we’ve made a comic strip featuring the world famous fashion designer, not chatting clothes, but instead teaching the sort of fashion lessons that really matter, like how to use quotes from neo-Marxist icon Marcuse.
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Posted on April 29th, 2009 | 5 Comments
Tagged: Karl, Karl Lagerfeld is Never Happy Anyway
Right now, thanks to unwell hogs, surgical masks are selling like Wayfarers the summer before last. But in Japan, ever since the Visual Kei explosion of the late eighties, rocking a surgical mask has been considered a viable look; so now that the rest of the world is getting a taste of it, don’t be surprised if it catches on and fashion is inherited by guys who look like Thunderbirds chicks, like Die from Visual Kei superstars Dir en Grey. Read more »
Posted on April 28th, 2009 | 6 Comments
Tagged: Dir en Grey, Shoxx, surgical masks, swine flu, Thunderbirds, Visual Kei
Recently, Irish born, lanky, long haired, unreconstructed rock fan, and VICE staffer Rockwell SF came over all Anna Wintour and decided he wanted VICE’s fashion department to shoot girls with big hair. You know the style; teased, backcombed, and way bigger than your actual head hair, like the sort of girls Beavis and Butthead used to cream themselves over. Think of this blog as Jim’ll Fix It, only with 80s metal erections.
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Posted on April 24th, 2009 | 20 Comments
Tagged: hair
When Lotta Volkova, Russian daughter of a nuclear physicist and navy captain from Vladivostok, was Lotta Skeletrix, the Kashpoint bothering, lesbian space Empress, of London’s electroclash scene, she used to wear a glitter-ball on her head. That was out-there enough to make art photographer Wolfgang Tillman a little obsessive. Then she got into Blade Runner type double-breasted power-suits, matched with the odd toy gun slung round her neck and tape-measure braces from the DIY store. Volkova went on to design a range of death metal and militaristic post-punk inspired menswear, moved to Paris, morphed into a bit of avant-guard crumpet, gave up designing, started styling for magazines based in Japan, Paris and Russia, and married this guy that used to be gay. Now Volkava’s designing again, this time for women.
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Posted on April 21st, 2009 | 4 Comments
Tagged: Blade Runner, Kashpoint, Lotta Volkova, Pasolini, Salo, Wolfgang Tillman
Monique wears t-shirt by Eastpak, boxing gloves model’s own, shorts by Criminal Damage, tights by Aristoc
Fashion wise, dying is a totally lame look, so thank God technology is here to keep us alive. Thanks to the technology that saved their lives all of these people are still hot and living, not dead and green. Right now health care is free over here, which is great because we all get to look un-mutilated no matter how many car crashes we’re in, but the private health care world is growing. As they start raking in cash for operations they’ll probably start advertising, preying on our urges to stay looking good, feeling young, and alive, then maybe health care will be marketed more like the fashion and beauty industries. In which case these guys will be their poster children…
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Posted on April 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Tagged: fashion, ganglioneuroblastoma, Jamie Taete, medicine, saving lives, Technology
If you didn’t catch Charlie Le Mindu in last year’s Vice Fashion Issue, you might recognise his mega wigs from the James Price directed video for Peaches new single “Talk To Me”. During the video his hairy creations grow from a painting on the wall, come alive on Peaches head and serve as mini dresses/cloaks for some hot chicks who’re knocking about this scary house in their underwear.
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Posted on April 20th, 2009 | No Comments
Tagged: Charlie Le Mindu, Peaches, Talk To Me
New Power Studio is a brand new sportswear label but the people behind it: scouse fashion stylist Thom Murphy, and descendant of Turkish immigrants Ebru Ercon have history. She used to work for Stella McCartney and he has worked for all those men’s fashion magazines that think Belgium = cool. Read more »
Posted on April 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Tagged: New Power Studio
In my American opinion Shoreditch is Williamsburg with more black lace, an addiction to hairspray, and no Sparks. Anyone who has hung out amongst the formerly fringetastic Ipso Facto clones may have noticed a decrease in the amount of lego ladies and an increase in eyebrow grooming (or an accentuation of a lack thereof.) Liquid liner isn’t just for your lids, you know. Think Jennifer Connelly in Phenomena only darker and with a few less strays. To help me report on this East London trend, I have enlisted the help of the longtime queen (rather, Princess) of Shoreditch, Princess Julia. She’s been a DJ and fashion icon for decades, has been in a zillion videos, and was famously the face of Visage’s “Fade to Grey,” and now co-runs P.i.X. Julia is a neutral source on this topic since she’s chosen to live eyebrowless for years now.
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Posted on April 16th, 2009 | 9 Comments
Tagged: eyebrows, shoreditch
This is the blog that celebrates the fact that if you’re good at playing instruments then people throw clothes at you in the hope that you’ll wear it in NME and Topshop will buy the collection after seeing it.
Last year fashion was spunking it’s collective load all over Ipso Facto and their all-black-look. Stefano Pilati the Italian design head at YSL put together an actually sort-of amazing collection that was more than a little bit Ipso. Their fit keyboardist Cherish let us poke around her flat, but unfortunately didn’t pose naked for the”How would you dress to get laid?” question.
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Posted on April 14th, 2009 | 8 Comments
Tagged: cherish, Hannah Marshall, ipso facto, What are you wearing?, YSL
