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.
Stricken City get compared to the deliberately retro, naive and lo-fi sounds of C86 all the time. Everyone says their music is really “nice” and old indie kids love them. Also, their hot lead singer, Rebekah Rae, went to fashion college and so should know how to get dressed. Read more »
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.
“Drunk wizard metal” band Invasion are great. Vice staffer Ben UFO designs their record sleeves and merch, and their videos rule. We had a chat to their guitarist, Marek, about his clothes. Read more »
Festival fashion rule number one: your clothes should look like a passport to a sex city, even after you’ve done loads of K in a muddy field, stayed up all night and not washed, and are covered in bodily fluids. Otherwise them there threads are just prison bars locking you out from fun times.
Willum, 20, stock room supervisor
Vice: What’s the worst outfit you’ve seen at Leeds?
Willum: Horrible sheepskin coats, I’m not loving them.
What’s the best outfit you’ve seen?
Skinheads.
How would you describe your style?
A skinhead.
Without actually having a skinhead?
Yeah, I guess.
What bands have you come to see?
Ian Brown, La Roux, and Municipal Waste.
Notting Hill Carnival is a bit like Kate Moss. The establishment (both the government and advertisers) likes being associated with both because it makes them look vibrant and in touch, and then they act all indignant when drugs are involved.
Mary Anna, 20, graphic design student
Vice: How would you describe your style?
Mary Anna: A bit of rock and roll – I like the rocky, edgy look.
Who influences your style?
Alice Dellal and Rihanna.
What do you like about carnival?
The music and being able to smoke a spliff.
Is south London cooler than east London? We went to investigate by interviewing some of Walworth Road’s locals.
Danielle AKA Guessforever, student
Vice: Hey, you look cool. What’s this look all about?
Danielle AKA Guessforever: It’s me, the style of me. Read more »
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.
Black Lips were playing in London on Tuesday for one night before departing for Amsterdam. Because of mustachioed singer Cole’s nice hats and cherubic looks and guitarist Ian’s golden grills, we figured we’d chat to them about, y’know, fashion and stuff.
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 them in NME, and Topshop will buy the collection after seeing it. But we got bored of that, so now we photograph (slightly) realer people. Polish immigrant Lena Mascara’s club singing got the attention of millionaire photographer David Sims who shot her for high-end fashion mag W, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have to work behind a bar, pulling pints even though she’s an actress too. It’s almost like singing and acting aren’t reliable career choices.
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. Except we got bored of that and decided to shoot some “real people”. So seeing as 25-year-old Portuguese fashion designer Amandine Sophie Soares here is the World’s Hottest Bisexual and wore a leopard print leotard to her last birthday party, naturally she was top of our lust, er list. Read more »
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.
Can you believe grown men still wear pants like this? He looks like he’s sticking his head through a Joint-Rolling Baby cutout at the state fair.
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There’s a point at which self-involvement gets so high it actually turns in on itself and makes you do things like tattoo a celtic cross necklace across your chest as a warning to others.
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A park ranger in the Congo who survived being shot in the head at pointblank range
