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VICE MAIL Letters - The Clothes Issue Girls Against Boys, Der Tabloid, Genital Mutilation - An Overview, Last to Know, Hair Pie
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CAN YOU SHOW ME YOUR FAVORITE ITEM OF CLOTHING? Angela DiCarlo Makeup artist
I found this dress downstairs in the fat-girls department of Rainbow on Delancey Street in New York. Wear a black vintage slip underneath, put on some false eyelashes...READ MORE
THE VICE GLOBAL TREND REPORT 2007 NEW YORK
BOYS
Boys here are really hairy lately. A good rule of thumb is shave on Monday and let it grow until Saturday, when it will be perfect. We're also beginning to see long, chin-length...READ MORE
CLOTHES High-Heel Highways We asked Sarah and Chloe here to walk the course of the New York Marathon in Bruno Magli heels. They made it about ten miles, then they punked out....READ MORE
BANDS OF NYC THE VIRGINS
We think they would be better named Band of Babes, but whatever. The Virgins have been together for all of 20 minutes and yet have already managed to tour Europe, open for Patti Smith, sign to a major label, and get their genteel young ...READ MORE
SKINEMA By Chris Nieratko FASHIONISTAS SAFADO - THE CHALLENGE
Let me just start by telling you that Fashionistas has already been made into a full-scale Las Vegas production that’s been running since 2004 at the Aladdin, so you can go...READ MORE
MALCOLM MCLAREN INVENTED EVERYTHING The Vice Interview Malcolm McLaren began to design clothes in the early 70s, after he quit art school. In 1971, along with his then girlfriend Vivienne Westwood, he opened a boutique called Let It Rock. They sold gear for teddy boys, rockers, and greasers. Boring....READ MORE
JUERGEN TELLER DOES WHATEVER HE WANTS The Vice Interview Juergen Teller is, in large part, responsible for everything that you like about photography. He is a member of the holy trinity (along with Terry Richardson and Wolfgang Tillmans) that saved fashion photography from shittiness in the 1990s. Teller, totally un...READ MORE
RECORDS Music reviews - The Clothes Issue NAS
Hip Hop Is Dead
You can never tell with a Nas album. One track comes out then doesn't end up on the record, the title changes three times, the release date gets pushed back, no ...READ MORE
LONDON'S AGLOW The Sun Shines on the UK (For Once) Two years ago, the East London music scene was made up of a right bunch of fucking cunts who were all into smoking crack doon the Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel and awl. They wore string vests and trilby hats and played banjos on stage. It sounded like Lonnie D...READ MORE
GROSS JAR - GROSS FASHION Bidding the Jar Adieu It may not be the easiest thing for an outsider to wrap their brain around, but somewhere in the course of filling it with whatever manner of filth we could get our hands on and marveling at the stomach-wrenching results, the Gross Jar went from being a simple...READ MORE
When he was 13 years old, Gavin Watson got his hands on a Nikon FM2...READ MORE
TIDBITS A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Clothes Issue - Reader's Thrift Store Finds "You often find this shirt for under $5 at thrift stores here in Atlanta because the National Museum of Patriotism is here. I haven't met anyone who knows what that slogan means."...READ MORE
VICELAND EXCLUSIVE Canadian Thrift Store Finds The Bob and Doug Shirt you had to order from an insert that came with the 12" vinyl version of their comedy album featuring Geddy Lee of Rush. The shirt is a size small, which I was at the time. Couldn't part with the shirt, so as I grew I just kept hacking aw...READ MORE
CHINA WORLD A Bootlegger Speaks I am 21 years old and just graduated from university. I was born and raised in a small city in Hunan with around 40,000 people. Now I am living in Shenzhen, a modern city in southern China, not so far from Hong Kong. I am working in the city in an office, sell...READ MORE
GINGA FEVER Favela Girls Pull Off Fashion Coup You might think that the Brazilian favelas are no fun. The houses are built from rubbish and it smells of diarrhoea and deprivation. Then there's the urban warfare between drug gangs and police death-squads, which kills ten times more kids every year than in I...READ MORE
COMME DES POWER ELECTRONICS Birds of Delay's Inverted Perceptions Luke Younger and Steve Warwick met six years ago at a Trans Am show in London where a shared a love of hardcore and harsh power electronics led to them moving around the country performing together in various weirdly-named outfits but eventually settled as...READ MORE
GRIMEWATCH So Wiley has decided to retire. We hinted at this a while back when we said he would be moving to New York, so it’s no big surprise for us. Maybe it was Footsie trying to rush him which finally pushed him over the edge. Who knows? All we can be sure of right n...READ MORE
FUCK THE FASHION WORLD Black Lips Don't Care Five years ago it was extremely fashionable to be in a garage rock band. You know how it went. The White Stripes broke into the mainstream and this caused every moron in a jobbing indie guitar band in the world to start kicking out their bass players and doing...READ MORE
HATED IN THE NATION Why Everybody Wants To Burn Gallows Gallows are the most fashionable and most hated hardcore band in the country. It doesn't take a genius to work that these two accolades may be related. It is a plain fact that it's impossible for any hardcore group to endure any amount of trendiness outside th...READ MORE
LABELS SHMABLES Beach House Defy Genre Visit Beach House's MySpace page and two things immediately become clear: they don't use drum machines and they don't like labels. Especially gaylord ones like "folktronica". Beach House, aka Baltimoreans Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, give a shit about...READ MORE
QUIET ACHIEVER KES Makes Orange Look Good He's not going to prance around with his shirt off like Devendra Banhart but Karl Scullin aka Kes is a bit of a hippie. He admits it but don't freak out cause he's rad and way more into chickpeas and brown rice than acid and love beads. In short, he's the real...READ MORE
PLEASE FINISH THIS SENTENCE I Would Never Fall For Someone Wearing... Magnus: Buffalo shoes. Why?
That one piece of clothing just sums up bad style. And girls look...READ MORE
SHROUD OF METAL Watain Are Back from the Dead Last time Watain played live in London the new "no fluids" rule was in effect. It made bringing the rotten blood they use to impregnate their clothes with a little trickier, but somehow they managed to smuggle it onto the plane and into the UK (yay for securit...READ MORE
HEARTS ON FIRE Handsome Furs and Leather Jackets Apart from sounding amazing, Handsome Furs also manage to be natural born style icons. What else would you expect when a wild and charming poet like Alexei sets Dan's (the singer of Wolf Parade) heart on fire and they decide to make music together? The result ...READ MORE
TERRIFIC TEENAGERS From the Couture Capital You know those bands that are so amazing that the only thing you can do is turn into a fanatic young girl, undress and write "I Love The Teenagers" with pink fluo pens all over your body? No? Obviously, you haven't heard The Teenagers yet, because that's what ...READ MORE
The Finnish Romani are credited as some of the most flamboyant dressers...READ MORE
DOOMSDAY METAL Style is an important part of music. This is especially true when it comes to metal. It's not about profit or playing charades, it's about making music for the sake of music and being yourself. Fuck the posers, so to speak.
Marduk is one of Sweden’s gre...READ MORE
BACK TO NATURE Accessories for the Naked We used to think nudists were naked all the time. After talking to Ove Svensson, who maintains one of the many Scandinavian websites that lists nude beaches, and his friend Anna, we learnt that the only time they really strip down is when they go swimming in t...READ MORE
NICE SHOEGAZING Lionheart Brothers Don't Need a Stylist Oslo based Lionheart Brothers play the psychedelic, slightly unfashionable indiepop of bands like Ride, Ultra Vivid Scene and Galaxie 500. Ironically, exactly the kind of band that Sofia Coppola would pay one of her French buddies to discover for her movies....READ MORE
