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  VICE MAILLetters - The Fashion IssueSmugwatch, Snugwatch, Female Trouble, Dept. of Breasts Are Dirty...READ MORE | |
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 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 | |
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 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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - NEW YORKNew 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 | |
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 HAIR POLICEIranian Youth Fight to Keep the RoosterIran'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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - LOS ANGELESTry 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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - LONDONThere 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 | |
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 SKINEMABy Chris NieratkoLOVE 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 looks like? Stunning. Then I must ask, have you seen what I look lik...READ MORE | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - AMSTERDAMIt'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 | |
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 UP-AND-COMERSHere Are Four New Designers We LikeTELFAR CLEMENS:
Wall Street, House of Ninja, and Nude Burial
Vice: When did you get into fashion?
Telfar: I started designing clothes in high school-I basically used to make everything I wore. Then my freshman year of college I started my...READ MORE | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - HELSINKIFinnish 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 | |
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 GANG OF TWOBlue Mondays in BergenIf 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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - MONTREALBoys 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 | |
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 HONK HONK!Masaru Tatsuki Photographs Trucks With Crazy Shit All Over ThemLong-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 | |
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 STREET FASHION 08Straight From Da StreetsOK 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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - TOKYOTokyo 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 | |
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 PUSS IN BOOTSCat Prin Clothes Are Dictated by the CosmosYou'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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - PARISThe 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 | |
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 RECORDSMusic Reviews - The Fashion Issue 2008THE 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 it was being played through a Game Boy wedged insid...READ MORE | |
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 A CONVERSATION WITH SUSAN CIANCIOLOSusan 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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - MELBOURNEAustralia 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 | |
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 TUTTI FRUTTI LOOPSHeartsrevolution are Bananas About Choc Chip CrumbleHeartsrevolution 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 | |
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 RAW CHINABehind the Green CurtainShe 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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - NEW ZEALANDIt'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 | |
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 YES, I AM A MODELTrying to Survive in the Cruel, Cruel World of Professional PrettinessOn 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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - BERLINBerliners 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 | |
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 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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - BARCELONASpanish 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 | |
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 THE PEOPLE'S LISTSFashion Firsts1900-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 visiting British players had the collars of their shir...READ MORE | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - COPENHAGENPeople 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 | |
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 HEY, YOU'RE PSYCHICWhat'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. I am from the south of France, close to Spain-I am a gypsy from my father's side...READ MORE | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - STOCKHOLMWelcome 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 | |
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 VICE FASHION - SMARTY PARTYRight now instead of, I don't know, trying to cure cancer or something, thousands of millions of hundreds of scientists are busy designing "intelligent textiles," aka clothes that do stuff. So far the practical value of their creations ranges from from roughly...READ MORE | |
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 UP-AND-COMERS - UKThree New Faces in LondonSomewhere 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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - MILANThe 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 | |
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 DRINKING MILANRenata Molho Remembers When Italy Was FashionableIn 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 | |
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 NEXT TO NO TIMEYa Ho Wa 13's Heaven Is EarthYa 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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - ANTWERPBlack 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 | |
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 GLOBAL TREND REPORT '08 - VIENNAAustrian 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 | |
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 JOHNNY RYAN'S PAGE OF PAGESFor 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 | |
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 SA STYLESSilent South African Street InterviewsThese 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 | |
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 HUNTING HIGH AND LOWThey Came From The Stars I Saw Them Love a BargainThey 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 | |
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 SKINEMABy Chris NieratkoI 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 | |
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 WHAT THE HELL HAPPENEDFashion Definitely Seemed More Fun With Rennie EllisRennie 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 | |
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 SCANDINAVIAN UP-AND-COMERSThree Good Clothes Makers From Up NorthHAMPUS BERNHOFF
Bankers, Boot Camp and Bodies for Sin
Vice: You have a degree in Economics, how did you go from banker to fashion designer?
Hampus: I'll never forget the moment I got my acceptance letter from Saint Martins Co...READ MORE | |
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 RAW CHINAZsa Zsa and the ProstitutesThere'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 | |
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