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SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE By Stephen Lea Sheppard BULLY: SCHOLARSHIP EDITION
Wow. Rockstar finally created a game I enjoy.
Bully: Scholarship Edition is the re-release of 2006’s Bully for the PS2. It’s almost not worth mentioning that Bully was...READ MORE
VICE MAIL Letters - The Fashion Issue Smugwatch, Snugwatch, Female Trouble, Dept. of Breasts Are Dirty...READ MORE
I LOVE FASHION "You can't dress up in the revolutions of your parents." First, a clarification. To say "I love fashion" is much like saying "I love dogs," or "I love democracy." To love democracy is not to love it at all times and under every banner, like, say, when the wrong man wins the popular vote. And loving dogs does not mea...READ MORE
I HATE FASHION "I don't trust people with empty-stomach breath to tell me what taste is." If you could see my feet-a blistered, corned, scarred mess of impenetrable calluses-you would wonder what the fuck is wrong with the brain of the girl attached to them for subjecting herself to the "coutorture" of a pair of five-inch heels that were as expensi...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - NEW YORK New York girls these days don't want to look cutesy and innocent-they want to be dark and fucked-up and maybe on speed and heroin. They want to look kind of... eccentric. Hence the umpteenth revival of the Edie Sedgwick look. On any given night at any bar you'...READ MORE
HAIR POLICE Iranian Youth Fight to Keep the Rooster Iran's religious police, the Basij, whose mission it is to make sure the people adhere to an Islamic code, have a long and proud history of harassing women for their Western-style dressing tendencies. But it's only recently that Iranian men have become the tar...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - LOS ANGELES Try to put the typical LA tanned, fake-boobed, scumbag Hollywood types out of your mind for a moment. Let's direct our attention instead to the younger and much cooler Echo Park/Los Feliz kids. You'll most likely find them all squeezed together at a sleazy kar...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - LONDON There are three looks dominating the UK right now. The first one is kind of a toned-down streetwear thing. You see, rap fans used to be happy to line up for hours outside the BAPE shop to pay a few hundred pounds for day-glo Dunks and pink camo hoodies that lo...READ MORE
SKINEMA By Chris Nieratko LOVE SQUIRTS
I don’t trust that my wife truly loves me. The entire relationship seems suspect to me. I often question what her ulterior motives are. I mean, have you seen what she...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - AMSTERDAM It's official: Knitted cardigans are the biggest revival of the year. The best-dressed guys, the ones not clinging to last year's color frenzy, have done a complete turnaround and become grandpas. Classy grandpas that get lots of trim. Button-downs, plain t-sh...READ MORE
UP-AND-COMERS Here Are Four New Designers We Like TELFAR CLEMENS:
Wall Street, House of Ninja, and Nude Burial
Vice: When did you get into fashion?...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - HELSINKI Finnish boys are currently shunning color. The only acceptable color is in accents such as scarves or anything made by Henrik Vibskov. Otherwise boys like to camouflage themselves to fit the city surroundings, and the most popular tones for clothes are black, ...READ MORE
GANG OF TWO Blue Mondays in Bergen If you walk through the city center of Bergen in Norway, chances are you'll run into Maybritt, 32, and Kåre Morten, 43. They're always around and they stand out because they're ALWAYS in matching outfits. They collect bottles and have become the mascots of Ber...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - MONTREAL Boys have short hair in Montreal now. Beardos have disappeared and facial hair is getting more carefully trimmed (unless guys are growing a play-off beard at the end of hockey season, which happens more often than you would think). The army jacket and lazily u...READ MORE
HONK HONK! Masaru Tatsuki Photographs Trucks With Crazy Shit All Over Them Long-haul trucks covered in elaborate, eye-popping neon lights and colorful airbrushed murals of fantasy creatures and religious figures are known as "decotora" in Japan. Decotora trucks initially cropped up all over the nation after a film called Torakku Y...READ MORE
STREET FASHION '08 Straight From Da Streets OK fashionistas, who's up for a straight-up reality check? In da real world, nobody gives two shits about fancy fashion moguls like Carl Largerfields or Valerie Westwoods. Every kid knows da real fashion comes from da streets, aka London's Oxford Street! In be...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - TOKYO Tokyo boys are walking neon signs. Like the city itself, the kids like to make your eyes feel like they're on fire. And attention to detail is another specialty. Look closely at Keiji's yellow hoodie here: It's actually two hoodies stuck together. He's turned ...READ MORE
PUSS IN BOOTS Cat Prin Clothes Are Dictated by the Cosmos You've probably seen Cat Prin: The Tailor of a Cat. It's a Japanese web-store that sells the most ridiculously adorable cat outfits with names like "Frog Transformation Set," "Young Lady Blouse," and "Shawl of a Rabbit." The site has tons of photos of two litt...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - PARIS The French may prattle on about how totally different they are from the English, but when it comes to Parisian fashion in 2008, a lot of guys are taking notes from Michael Caine circa 1969. We're seeing clean-cut nonchalance and a strict color code that mostly...READ MORE
RECORDS Music Reviews - The Fashion Issue 2008 THE DEATH SET
Worldwide
Went to see The Death Set live the other week. At the time I couldn’t work out whether it was the drugs or the fucked sound system that made their whole set sound like...READ MORE
A CONVERSATION WITH SUSAN CIANCIOLO Susan Cianciolo is a multimedia artist and designer who has been working for almost two decades both inside and outside the fashion system. She was at the forefront of the customizing, deconstructionist movement of the 90s, and her collections often culminated...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - MELBOURNE Australia has gone monochrome. Colors are out and black, white, and gray are in. Most guys have a good pair of vintage leather dress shoes. Skinny black or blue jeans have been staples forever, and given the summer heat wave, they're often worn simply with a p...READ MORE
TUTTI FRUTTI LOOPS Heartsrevolution are Bananas About Choc Chip Crumble Heartsrevolution were born when a cute girl from LA called Lo decided to turn up at shows and parties in a cute 1960s ice cream truck and sell cute stuff out of the back of it. The truck was called Heartschallenger and became an all-purpose vehicle dedicated t...READ MORE
RAW CHINA Behind the Green Curtain She works off a muddy street in the far northeastern outskirts of Beijing in the scrappy, dirty slums that aren't on any tourist maps. Along the road are one-story linoleum-floored buildings where people live in rooms that are bedrooms, living rooms, bathrooms...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - NEW ZEALAND It's slightly disappointing that no one in this majestic land actually looks like Frodo or Xena. Yes, that is all most of us know about New Zealand. Oh, and Flight of the Conchords, which isn't the funniest thing ever, but it's a little bit funny once in awhil...READ MORE
YES, I AM A MODEL Trying to Survive in the Cruel, Cruel World of Professional Prettiness On the third day of Fashion Week, Bryant Square Park had been turned into the usual billowing white tent city, its granite steps patrolled by cameramen and security guys with clipboards. The main tent, at the top of the steps, had been covered in a cloth scrim...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - BERLIN Berliners are keeping things plain and scruffy, which isn't that surprising after an oppressive summer of new-rave neon and glitter. Boys especially are doing their best to make sure their clothes are dirty and torn. It's not enough to be vintage. Your shit ha...READ MORE
DO IT! Back in my university days, I luckily had one musical ally in the form of my housemate Jack. I'd spend all day looking out of the window at next door's cat sunning itself on our tin garden shed roof and Jack would often come up, swing open the door, bang on on...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - BARCELONA Spanish girls like to dress up to the point where they look like cartoon characters or extras in an Almodovar movie. This is a good and fun thing. Sexy schoolteacher never gets old. Make it pop with a high-waisted leather miniskirt, a stewardess cravat, platin...READ MORE
VICE PRESENTS THE PEOPLE'S LISTS Fashion Firsts 1900-Button-Down Collars
John Brooks, of the celebrated men’s outfitters Brooks Brothers, found a day out at the polo grounds in New Bedford a profitable experience. He noticed that some of the...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - COPENHAGEN People in Denmark like to refer to themselves as "laid-back" and "mellow." They act like they don't give a hoot about fashion, or anything else for that matter, but they mix up as many styles as possible in order to acquire absolute nonstyle, and that seems to...READ MORE
HEY, YOU'RE PSYCHIC What's Hot For Next Season? ARTEMIS - Crystal Ball Reader
Vice: When did you first realize you had this gift?
Artemis: I was born with it. At three years old I was talking with dead people...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - STOCKHOLM Welcome to Sweden, home of the "normal girl." After all the boring kids in Stockholm went into emo overload, the quirky girls have gone straight in rebellion. That means no makeup, long, limp hair, and a scrunchy on the arm for windy days. It's the kind of loo...READ MORE
Right now instead of, I don't know, trying to cure cancer or something...READ MORE
UP-AND-COMERS - UK Three New Faces in London Somewhere among the pulsating mass of young designers and wannabe trendsetters that choke the streets of London are a few new faces who are ready to do great things on fashion's front lines. We had a word with three of them about the "scene", itchy pants, and ...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - MILAN The cute arty girls in Milan have gone back to a less-is-more look after last year's disastrous flirtation with all that is neon. Bright colors are now used sparingly and to great success, like a perfectly pink little jacket over a "Comme des Fuck Down" t-shir...READ MORE
DRINKING MILAN Renata Molho Remembers When Italy Was Fashionable In 1979, Milan's fashion week overtook Paris, in terms of both pure profit and volume of business. It was the dawn of a golden age for the northern Italian city. Soon after, it would all blow up in an orgy of parties, runways, sex, magazines, photographers, su...READ MORE
NEXT TO NO TIME Ya Ho Wa 13's Heaven Is Earth Ya Ho Wa 13 was the music outlet of the Source Family, a communal group that numbered 160 at its height in the early 70s and lived together in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills. They were led by their "Earthly Spiritual Father" Jim Baker, later called Father Yo...READ MORE
SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE By Stephen Lea Sheppard LOST ODYSSEY
Goddamnit, when I first started playing Lost Odyssey I was all fired up to write a review about how Hironobu Sakaguchi has lost his touch, but then, before the first...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - ANTWERP Black leggings and ballet flats (with a new ankle-strap twist) continue their reign in Belgium, paired, of course, with some big sacklike thing on top, such as a bright blue designer raincoat (which is completely useless against the rain) or a cute little baby...READ MORE
GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - VIENNA Austrian guys have finally jumped on the tight-jeans bandwagon. Better late than never, we guess. Plain-colored button-down shirts and V-neck t-shirts are also very narrow cut. Basically boys are looking like they raided their little sisters' closets. They're ...READ MORE
JOHNNY RYAN'S PAGE OF PAGES For the past few years, Johnny Ryan has littered the back page of the magazine with his bigoted, mean-spirited drawings of anthropomorphic genitals and surprisingly accurate adaptations of literary classics. We managed to keep our dirty little secret off the w...READ MORE
SA STYLES Silent South African Street Interviews These photos were taken in a part of South Africa known as Walmer Location in Port Elizabeth. The place is a side effect of the implementation of apartheid in the 1960s, when areas like this were established to separate people into groups of similar skin tone...READ MORE
HUNTING HIGH AND LOW They Came From The Stars I Saw Them Love a Bargain They Came From The Stars I Saw Them have been around for nine years and have never strictly found fame, which isn't the most promising sell for a band. Weirdly, the London group have managed to retain this odd name-drop status within certain indie circles, whi...READ MORE
SKINEMA By Chris Nieratko I recently got an email from a friend I hadn’t spoken to in many years. I actually nearly forgot we were ever friends because during the time in my life we were friends I was out to lunch on goofballs. His name is Harry Weiss and he has his own porn PR company...READ MORE
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED Fashion Definitely Seemed More Fun With Rennie Ellis Rennie Ellis was an extraordinary photographer who took pictures from the centre of the scenes he was a part of for almost four decades. His passion for life and relentless interest in people drove his work and he spent his time travelling around Australia and...READ MORE
SCANDINAVIAN UP-AND-COMERS Three Good Clothes Makers From Up North HAMPUS BERNHOFF Bankers, Boot Camp and Bodies for Sin
Vice: You have a degree in Economics, how did you go from banker to...READ MORE
RAW CHINA Zsa Zsa and the Prostitutes There's a cafeteria on the second floor of the building open to civilians who don't have ID cards that also includes another cafeteria strictly for students who have ID cards, a bar, a bootlegged DVD shop, a "Western"-style café, a Japanese restaurant, a Korea...READ MORE
