Joeseph Merrick, AKA the real life Elephant Man, used to say if only he could meet a blind woman who didn’t care about his fruity face, he might find love. He asked many times to be moved to a blind asylum, but it probably wouldn’t have helped because looks do matter to blind people. And so, consequently, does fashion. Read more »
Mariel Manuel is studying at the best fashion academy in Europe and the Universe, The Royal Fashion Academy of Antwerp. I went to see the show a while ago, which, by the way, is apparently the longest fashion show in the world–four hours of talent in your face. And now, a month later, I’m still dreaming of Mariel’s little creatures. They looked like this:
25-year-old Gosha Rubchinsky’s spring/summer PDF is amazing. It throws together images of Moscow towerscape backdrops, street-cast Russian teens, changing rooms and athletic arenas. The designer’s sharply cut, minimal sportswear is juxtaposed with enough spikes and gothic script to hint at both the trance-loving hardnut skinhead proles and black metal-loving dropout stereotypes of Russian youth. Read more »
The September Issue is a documentary about American Vogue that everyone’s pretty excited about. It’s not out yet but I managed to see an illegal download copy. Any film detailing magazine politics is on to a winner. You see, a fashion journalist’s work and interests are the same thing, so that lack of separation between work and life means the usual boss/employee, getting bullied/sucking up thing gets magnified. And in Anna Wintour’s case it goes off the scale, making The September Issue really full-on.
Do you see what happens when gays get rights? All those fat, ugly, angry, loud people carrying signs and that weird symbol of two sticks crossing at right angles with a dead guy hanging off it were totally right: homosexuals are all perverts who will fuck anything and should not be allowed to get married. Because then shit like this happens…
Simon Foxton wasn’t lying when he said, “I like to dress nice-looking boys in silly clothes”. He’s known for sticking brightly coloured and insane clothes on his models, and along with Ray Petri he pioneered mixing sportswear, workwear, and proper fashion in the eighties. He was also one of the first stylists to dictate the look of his shoots as much as any photographer. Foxton, along with Petri, helped make an essentially black look (defined hairless muscle, full lips and broad nose) hot.
London College of Fashion graduates Fanny and Jessy might have a studio behind the worst place in the world, Shoreditch House, but their debut unisex collection is called “I Hope You Die Soon”, so they’re clearly taking inspiration from the psychogeography surrounding them. Read more »
If anyone should have a fashion blog, Princess Julia should. She knows her fashion, how to use it to make a name, how it can change the way you think, and how to read people’s style. Julia has been cool since the early eighties, when having an extreme look was an underground thing. Like her friend Boy George she re-invented herself as a handbag house DJ in the nineties, and again more recently by publishing music-zine the P.i.X with Hanna Hanra for the last three years.
Getting dressed lately is getting easier and easier. Just stick your big and long parts in the provided holes. All the shit is getting all stretchy and elastic like Pull-Ups potty training diaper pants. When I walk by the American Apparel window, it looks like jazzercisey pop-lockity of gymnastic surgeons, asylum pajamas, NASCAR flags, baby blankets and KFC napkins. Basically as close as you can get to swaddling clothes, but with a hoodie. (Anxiety and acne look couture in a hoody, so I’m down.) This might be the best era to bring back the three stoogerific prank of de-pantsing too. It’s just too easy to swoosh elastic leggings off boozy buddies!
Black people took a time-out from being cooler than us in 1985 but after a dozen or so years of us blowing it they’re here to take back the crown.
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This guy is like when you just moved to a new town and you did some weird remix of Eric B and Rakim that everyone loves and just as it comes on and everyone cheers, he points to you all carpe diem and you think to yourself, “I am at the pussy zenith of my life right now.”
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