Hello Kitty is 35 this month. Wow, people really like that cat. In fact, last year the Taiwanese even opened a Hello Kitty maternity hospital. Of course, the whole Kawaii thing is as cliched as a burlesque dancer empowering strippers, but the fact that Hello Kitty survives so well shows just how childish everyone actually is. Maybe that’s not even all that bad, but it’s still true. Sure, Hello Kitty (let’s label her HK for short) is a character, was a cartoon, and is loads of computer games, but she totally is fashion too. There’s HK clothes and accessories that cost a lot more than the pencil cases that started it off.
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Posted on November 11th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Tagged: Hello Kitty
Hey girls, your time is fucking up. Nothing is limited to just you anymore, at least not in the world of Tokyo style. After all, it is the homeland of Rei Kawakubo, who originally created the Japanese version of “boys in skirts,” a trend that was once limited to Axl Rose and “fashionistas” but is now pretty common. Let’s have a looksie at these gentlemen gatecrashing girls’ fashion. Read more »
Posted on October 6th, 2009 | 5 Comments
Tagged: boys who look like girls, fashion, gay beret, Rei Kawakubo
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 »
Posted on July 27th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Tagged: Gosha Rubchinsky
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
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
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
Aaahh the French, ever the fashion forward. Check out this dude from Paris who’s decided that it would be a good idea to wrap a load of duct tape around his willy and wear that instead of underwear. Or trousers. Read more »
Posted on April 6th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Tagged: Glamcanyon, Louis Vuitton bin bags
We’re cuckoo for Kai Kuhne today. A couple fashion weeks ago, aka the clothes you can find right now, two hot insane-looking girls pranced up to Kai’s show wearing these sleazy jumpers that were stuffed up every crevice of their torsos and they’ve been spiking jarts of lust in my mind ever since. Yeah yeah that Mickey Mouse print is sliiiiightly low-rent Jeremy Scott from five years ago but you know what? For one, you are a mongoloid if you don’t enjoy low rent, and for two, it is literally your job when you are dazzlingly foxy to dress like a slutty spaz—seriously, that’s all you have to do—and these two wrangled that down. Anyway, we chatted with the guy who made those jazzy snatch traps, Cody Ross (his line’s called Priestess NYC and he also makes those floral arranger styrofoam ring headband and bangle things that are covered in metallic spandex that we keep seeing), to find out more and discovered that it’s possible to invert the weird, interesting people making lousy clothing paradigm. Meaning that sometimes people who make good things have nothing to say. Oh wait, that’s not news. Anyway…
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Posted on March 13th, 2009 | 11 Comments
Tagged: cody ross, fashion issue, jeremy scott, kai kuhne, priestess nyc
Boy George has lost a few pounds and is looking all the better for it.
We went along to the Giles after party at Bungalow 8 last night in the hope of finding some models to lick ketamine off – which we did – but ended up surrounded by lots of really famous people. Check out who we saw! Read more »
Posted on February 24th, 2009 | No Comments
Tagged: Bungalow 8, Giles
I am not a fan of oil-slick (or wet-look, robo-legs, what have you) leggings. Let me explain.
It’s not that I don’t think they look sexy. They do. On this model at Sass and Bide they look magnificent, like the glory of the mighty sun. It’s just that someone needs to tell 99.8% of women that they CANNOT PULL OFF oil-slick leggings like no one has ever needed to do anything.
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Posted on February 18th, 2009 | 14 Comments
