Depressingly for London, Vivienne Westwood’s diffusion line, Red Label, is as big of a show as it gets for fashion week, bar the odd special appearance. We love Viv, it’s just that London would be a more exciting place if she showed her main line here too. This season, Vivienne seems to be sticking to the old “don’t mess with success” adage by continuing last season’s journey through various looks: from 1960s air hostess through the pie lady in Sweeney Todd and disco chic, to a model sharpening a knife on the catwalk, surely with intentional overtones of menace (but in truth just looking concerned for the safety of her spindly hands).
Flying cats
Here’s a foolish idea for a fashion shoot: a metaphorical battle between good and evil as represented by a fight between flying cats! The red cat is bad. The gray cat is good. The gray cat wins, but don’t let that spoiler enjoy your viewing experience.
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Full Metal Hair
Recently, Irish born, lanky, long-haired, unreconstructed metal 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.
Thanks Technology!
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…
What are you wearing? - Little Boots
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.
Little Boots is kind of a big deal. Don’t know if you’ve heard about a little thing called blogs, but yeah, she’s pretty big on them. Personally I’ve been listening to the Fred Falke remix of “New In Town” all day. She’s got some pretty sweet togs as well, all wizards and puppy dogs. Read more »
Caroline Charles: An inside-out uterus carrying roses? FAIL.
A mum dress on a hot model in oil slick leggings and fuck-me shoes is still a mum dress. That is the lesson everyone learned this morning at British designer Caroline Charles’s Fall-Winter 09 collection show. Charles already has several claims to frump fame: she once dressed Emma Thompson in what cruel wags in ‘96 referred to as a “sea slug” for the Oscars (Thompson won for Best Actress, but her hideous aquamarine trouser-dress was an epic FAIL) and has made outfits for such renowned fashion victims as Princess Di, Liza Minelli, Mick Jagger and Ringo Starr - oh and a scarf for the Queen. Sartorially speaking, she’s UK high society’s conservative answer to Bob Mackie.
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Vice fashion: The Best Dick in Italy outtakes
Below you will find some rather nice outtakes from a recent shoot by Vice Italy’s Lele Saveri. Says Lele: “This is a shoot I did in Milan for Vice’s Interviews issue. The concept came from an interview we did with a private detective. We decided to shoot it as if I was the detective spying on this woman, who turns up to be going out with another girl.
“It was quite funny to see how these two girls (who didn’t know each other before the shoot) suddenly were “playing the game”. My assistant Alex was pretty glad he got to be a part of this shoot (as you can see in the first pic).” Read more »
Vice fashion: She Was Never Bored, Because She Was Never Boring
Andy Warhol for Pepe Jeans jacket, C.P. Company shirt, Levi’s shorts, Topshop socks, Adidas shoes
