Cover photo of Emmett the Pochron pig by Ryan McGinley
 SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
LIVE IN MY SECRETS
I'm working on a new VBS show called Sexy Slumber Party in which I have sexy slumber parties with naked porn stars and we have popcorn and girl talk until they start to cry and tell me how they were abused at a young age a...READ MORE |
  VICE MAIL
Letters - The Fashion Issue 2009
Put Some White-Man Dreadlocks On It, Bananas For Boy Butt, The Few, The Proud, The Goofy, The Great White Northern Nightmare, The Sweetest Meat...READ MORE |
 KAI KÜHNE
Every article you read about Kai Kühne these days is called something like "Wild Child Grows Up and Gets Serious!," "Tempestuous Bad Boy Makes Good!," or, as the New York Times titled their profile on him, "Can Fashion Forgive His Past?"
The answer is duh, y...READ MORE |
 SHOT BY KERN
Photos by Richard Kern
Richard Kern has a new photo series going where he takes school-style portraits of his models, both clothed and... unclothed. Imagine if every girl in your yearbook had been topless. Ay-yi-yi.
Here we have "Hugo" (that's the nom de porn she chose f...READ MORE |
 THE FUTURE OF FASHION
Fad Forecasts for the Twenty-Teens
It might seem presumptuous to make fashion predictions after a decade that saw so few fashion innovations. With the exception of a few extra gadgets, a bit more midriff, and the occasional message scrawled across a sweatpants backside, people in 2009 still loo...READ MORE |
 GLOBAL TREND REPORT 2009 - NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES
On guys, we're seeing a bit of a rockabilly revival. Is the never-ending Morrissey obsession to blame for this? Three out of five guys you see on the streets are sporting pompadours. Straight guys, gay guys, black guys, and even guys with Jewfros are trying to...READ MORE |
 EPICLY LATER'D
By Patrick O'Dell
I called Ty Evans to ask if he had any unused Guy Mariano footage and he said, "You know what I have? Twenty raw tapes that Spike filmed for Video Days.” Holy shit... I raced over there while making frantic phone calls to Spike to see if it was cool to ...READ MORE |
 HAIR HATS
Shinji Konishi Flips Wigs
When the Japanese hairstylist Shinji Konishi first molded wigs into the likenesses of assorted animals for a gallery show in Tokyo in 2008, he hoped repulsion would trump all else. "I wanted something poisonous," says Konishi. "I'm interested in things that ma...READ MORE |
 GLOBAL TREND REPORT 2009 - MONTREAL & MEXICO CITY
Boys in Montreal are keeping it pretty monochrome these days. The more adventurous will accessorize with the occasional bright pop of color, but mostly things are pretty murky. Shirts and pants are never ironed or crisp but always slim and fitted. Skinny jeans...READ MORE |
 YOKOO
Yokoo is an accidental knitting wunderkind who resides in a magical place called Atlanta, where she chips away tirelessly and obsessively at creating weird and beautiful neckwear. She recently became internet-famous for her chunky, inspired wares and the cute ...READ MORE |
 BROGUE BROS
Douglas Hart Meets Fred the Shoe
There is a famous fable from the UK northern-soul scene, from around the time the skinhead look first became popular in about 1969 or 1970. Legend has it that during some unknown all-nighter, at some unknown Manchester club, the fire doors suddenly burst...READ MORE |
 GLOBAL TREND REPORT 2009 - LONDON & BERLIN
As a reaction to the self-imposed squalor of the punky kids and the shameless fun hunting of the indie-weirdo gang, the "slightly too smart for their age" bunch are really upping their formal dressing skills. The men's polished brogues, sensible trousers, high...READ MORE |
 WEAR DARE
When Friends Dress Friends Shitty
The challenge: Go to the thrift store and pick out five of the most hideous, ridiculous outfits you can scare up for 50 bucks. Make your friend wear them all day, every day, for a week no matter what—no changing plans, no wussing out, and don't explain wh...READ MORE |
 GLOBAL TREND REPORT 2009 - MELBOURNE & NEW ZEALAND
In reaction to the abundance of bullshit available these days, dudes are finally starting to take what they're wearing a bit more seriously. Thankfully, they're turning to previous decades for inspiration—with dark, well-tailored suits and stovepipe pants...READ MORE |
 KOOS VAN DEN AKKER
Eye-bogglingly complex sweaters are the first things that come to mind when someone comes up in our face and whispers, "Bill Cosby." Not Pudding Pops, not that "Dad is great, give us chocolate cake" song he sang, and certainly not Fat Albert. Sweaters are what...READ MORE |
 GLOBAL TREND REPORT 2009 - MILAN & BARCELONA
The boys of Milano are finally coming around to the idea that girls actually like men. On the rise are patent-leather shoes (fluorescent sneakers now are a scarlet letter), slicked-back or side-parted hair, jackets, suspenders, well-tailored buttoned-up...READ MORE |
 PRÊT-À-MUTILATE
Glamorous Grotesqueries From Days Gone By
Imagine if, when you were a kid, your parents used elaborate and painful methods to force your head or feet into bizarre and permanent shapes. Or imagine if the surest way to get a decent job was to stand perfectly still while your friend hacked the side of yo...READ MORE |
 MEDIEVAL SLIMES
Two Weeks of Living Disgustingly
According to such sources as Hollywood, history textbooks, and the word on the street, the Middle Ages were a thousand-year grunge revival in which everybody walked around covered in fleas and mud and you could tell a person's class by the particular stench of...READ MORE |
 GLOBAL TREND REPORT 2009 - PARIS & AMSTERDAM
In France, guys usually belong to one of two lame fashion species: classy streetwear or undernourished Black Lips knockoffs. You therefore come across many ridiculous hats and checkered shirts. But a revolution has started. Some young men are innovating and ha...READ MORE |
 BERNHARD WILLHELM
German designer Bernhard Willhelm is the king of crazy fashion—last year he dressed men up like cartoon Prince Charmings and sent female models down the runway with necklaces made of hot dogs and words and mustaches scrawled in black marker on their faces...READ MORE |
 GLOBAL TREND REPORT 2009 - ANTWERP & TOKYO
Belgian boys are out of control. They're mixing and matching like they're on a game show called Mix and Match! and the winner gets a dream date with Walter Van Beirendonck. You can see boys lugging shopping bags all around town, filled to the brim with ...READ MORE |
 GLOBAL TREND REPORT 2009 - COPENHAGEN & HELSINKI
The days of moronic sneaker dudes with colorful shoelaces are long gone. Guys won't be caught dead in anything other than muted, somber colors. Forget about skinny jeans—the guy who pulls off the widest jodhpurs without looking completely stupid wins. Twe...READ MORE |
 RECORDS
Music Reviews - The Fashion Issue 2009
THE BOY LEAST LIKELY TO
The Law of the Playground
Not just shitty, DANGEROUSLY shitty. So putrid it should be locked in a safe and dropped in the Bermuda Triangle along with anyone who knows the combination...READ MORE |
 BOOTLEG EMBROIDERY DAMAGE
I have a huge collection of these weird embroidered tags. Most of them come from crappy clothes—sweatshirts and tees that are so ugly that I just cut off the tags and use the actual garment to clean my toilet. This kind of merchandise is all over the stre...READ MORE |
 GLOBAL TREND REPORT 2009 - VIENNA & STOCKHOLM
Boys are just boys in Vienna. They all look like young, watered-down versions of what comes to mind when you think of a sensitive yet seductive older man. They're not bothering themselves with unnecessary accessories, colors, bulges, or silhouettes. Guys here ...READ MORE |
 BARBARA HULANICKI
If scientists ever got off their asses and invented a time machine and I could travel to any place in any era, I'd choose either Egypt circa 3000 BC so I could see the pyramids being built, Berlin in 1912 so I could watch Houdini perform his "Chinese Water Tor...READ MORE |
 RICK OWENS
The last person I saw wearing a Rick Owens leather jacket was standing in the middle of Miami's Lincoln Road, scratching her platinum-blond hair with one long acrylic nail. She had paired one of Rick's Palais Royale pieces with thigh-high stilettos, a sequined...READ MORE |
 DAVID CHAMBERS
You have almost certainly never heard of David Chambers, but he makes suits for some of the best-dressed people in the world, from David Bowie to Terence Conran, with a long semi-secret list of other clients in between. Chambers is an old-school designer who r...READ MORE |
 HOLY FASHION
A Special Survey on Clerical Tailoring in Vatican City
Besides being Europe's only absolute monarch, the highest authority of the Catholic Church, and the head of state of the smallest country in the world, the Pope is one of few human beings who can claim to be officially infallible. It must be pretty great. In t...READ MORE |
 MORE THAN FASHION
Kim Jones and His Hardcore Tee Collection
Kim Jones is the head creative director at Alfred Dunhill, which is one of the world's most prestigious, fancy and expensive men's fashion houses. A sought-after darling of the fashion world, nominated three times for "Man of the Year" by GQ magazine, a...READ MORE |
 PARIS IS NOT A SOFT CHEESE
Fashion people love to eat shit like radish sprout salad with bulgur sprinkled with gomasio and algae, so that's what I ordered when I sat down with Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld biographer Alicia Drake and Kate Moss biographer Francoise-Marie Santucci...READ MORE |
 THE CURIOUS CASE OF GRANDPA BUTTON
Franco Jacassi Is the World's Button Collector Numero Uno
For all I know, "fashion" means trying to sort out a decent look out of two H&M rags and a couple of things I stole from my mom, which is perhaps part of the reason why I got the willies as soon as I did some preliminary research on Franco Jacassi. Having assu...READ MORE |
 WHEN RAT RULED THE WORLD
Well, Sydney Anyway
In early 1983, having recently moved to Sydney, a young Jac Vidgen decided to throw a party in his Elizabeth Bay apartment. He'd done stuff like this before and like his previous efforts, the party was an unmitigated success. But this time, even though all the...READ MORE |
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