The brown stuff hitting the fan in Iran has meant images of riot police were all over the media last week, proving again how cool they look. Riot police are fashion geniuses; they might be the human face of the evil urge of the powerful to crush us all, but their constantly evolving uniforms are just about the only thing you can wear that doesn’t look like some sort of revival of the stuff people wore twenty years ago. Riot gear is where it’s at, it’s definitely not retro look, and anything with a built-in six-pack is hot stuff in fashion terms. The padded and armoured gloves, jackets and trousers are menswear heaven – it’s techy, nearly all black and definitely not for pussies.
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Posted on June 25th, 2009 | 19 Comments
Tagged: iran riots
If you believe fashion mags, metal kids are weirdly on trend at the moment – even if their favourite bands still all suck. Anyway, they probably don’t know it, but a metal festival in 2009 is like Paris Fashion Week. We met with some of these debauched beauties. Oh we also met Lexxi Foxxx. His band, Steel Panther, are trying that whole tired Towers of London/Darkness philosophy of “rock ‘n’ roll’s a joke, so if I’m a massive joke I’ll be massive in rock’n'roll”. Good luck with that, Lexxi, you massive tool.
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Posted on June 24th, 2009 | 16 Comments
Tagged: download, metal, What are you wearing?
Fashion designers tend to be the most boring people in the world (right after models and dentists), but Anntian, aka graphic designer and a graduated fashion student Anne and Christian, are not. They’re cute and shy and quiet and instead of loud and grand and therefore, stupid. We intruded on their silent bubble for a somewhat incoherent chat.
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Posted on June 23rd, 2009 | 9 Comments
Tagged: Anntian, berlin, Collections, Paris, Tokyo
The United Nations considers Sierra Leone the world’s least developed state. In the 1991 - 2001 civil war, machete-wielding, drug-taking child soldiers were its specialty. Frankly, there is no way of linking that to these pretty pictures, except they all occurred within the same borders.
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Posted on June 19th, 2009 | 23 Comments
Tagged: Adama Kai', Aschobi Designs, Katrina Manson, Sierra Leone
Of course it’s easy for you to be stylish and look good when you’re young. Your skinny little frame is wrapped tightly in taut peachy skin, your feet smell like innocence, and denim hangs off you like a Kandinsky hangs off the wall at MOMA. But once you’re in the target demographic for TENA Lady and Fixodent, and clothes shops are mystifying discothèques full of travellators and impudent staff, looking good is hard. Some cool old people do pull it off though, and these people are very important because their style is a decent clue as to how God, who must be really old and really cool, must dress like. Advanced Style is a photo blog by 27-year-old Ari Cohen devoted to documenting New York’s mature fashion elite. We recently had a chat with Ari.
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 | 15 Comments
Tagged: advanced style, New York, old fashion
In today’s pig-shit economic atmosphere one must respect those with an entrepreneurial disposition – these free-spirit capitalists will save our souls and rebuild our society, eventually. However, the other day I got an email about a product so wildly free-spirited that I had to get in touch to ask if it was bollocks or not. Hands up, who wants to invest in a company which sells shit-stained pants for the mainstream? Yeah, the mass market, like you and me, not the niche bedroom Japanese paedo copropheliac market.
Unfortunately, it’s not real shit, so anyone craving the soul of a schoolgirl’s arse would be unsatisfied. The skid marks on these pants are fake, it’s designer. But it’s also practical. I’ll allow the email I received about this wonderful product explain the precise details. Read more »
Posted on June 17th, 2009 | 24 Comments
Tagged: Easy Tiger Corp, Pre-Stained Underwear
PRs are always trying to get their stuff on the Vice site. Unless you know everything, this can actually be a really good thing. For instance, I’d never heard of All American Rejects, ever. And now I know never to listen to them ever again, ever. But when I mentioned their name to Kylie Griffiths in our fashion dept, she started jumping up and down and giggling, “I used to love them when I was 16!” We let her live out her teen dream and meet Tyson Dreamboat (or whatever he’s called) from the band, because he’s the “face” of Penguin.
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Posted on June 16th, 2009 | 7 Comments
Tagged: All American Rejects, Penguin
Kristen McMenamy
Hefty photo-book Marc Jacobs Advertising 1998-2009 is the work of arty, fashiony, super-photographer Juergen Teller. Everyone, even my dad, knows Jacobs is a big deal. He’s the only New York womenswear designer shops like New Look bother to knock off, and inspires more “Get the look” features in shitty magazines with Jennifer Aniston on the cover than anyone else. Jacobs is no cultural slouch, so of course he employed Juergen Teller to shoot the ads for his clothes. Back in the early 90s, Teller blazed a trail for that whole generation of point-and-shoot, over-exposed style of photos done by people such Ryan McGinley. You may know it as the current visual shorthand for youth. Read more »
Posted on June 15th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Tagged: Charlotte Rampling, Cindy Sherman, Harmony Korine, Juergen Teller, Kristen McMenamy, Marc Jacobs Advertising 1998-2009, Michael Stipe, Ryan McGinley, Samantha Morton, Thurston Moore, Vaginas
James Jeanette is a tranny who knows a thing or two about fashion, and he’s just opened his own store, Jennette’s. He first found fame wearing skintight rubber Gareth Pugh dresses when he used to man the door at Boombox and all those other places that fashion people go to feel cool. A Scottish-born council estate boy, Jeanette is from Aberdeen, just like Annie Lennox, who he dressed up as once at a fashion big-wig’s cross-dressing-themed birthday party. That kind of sealed his fate as an icon because a cross-dresser cross-dressing as a cross-dresser = fashion hero. He held the launch party on Tuesday. It ruled.
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Posted on June 11th, 2009 | 15 Comments
Tagged: James Jeanette, Jennette’s
Alex Rosewald’s model appeared unhurt after parachuting in through the roof.
The LCF show featured a marathon of 28 collections hand-picked from the graduating class. To be honest, they could have been even more picky, because it lasted for an unfathomably long time. Still, despite the arduous task of sitting through it all, a lot of the collections were worth the effort. Read more »
Posted on June 10th, 2009 | 11 Comments
Tagged: aleksandra domanevskaya, alex rosenwald, alicja aputyte, anna legay, bahar alipour, hannah beth stenberg, hoi lam wong, jeong yang, london college of fashion, natsumi zama, neliana fuenmayor
