 LOOKING SPECIALThe Special Olympics After-Party Was All ThatThis June, right as summer was kicking into full gear, we decided to check out the Special Olympics Summer Games After-Party over in Long Island. It ruled.
We spent the first hour or so freaking out at how much better the black dudes were at dancing than the white dudes. That proves the ste... | |
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  ASK THE FARMVICE: What are you wearing right now?
Mark: Green work pants, a white T-shirt with...I think it's supposed to be a tiger's face, gray cotton work socks, second-hand Nike running shoes, a Dunlop baseball hat with a deerfly patch (a skin-colored strip of sticky tape used to catch the deerf... | |
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 USA! USA! USA!The Special Olympics of Avant FashionWhen Humberto Leon and his Opening Ceremony co-founder Carol Lim took a trip to Hong Kong a couple years ago, they were so impressed, both of their asses blew off and slammed against the wall.... | |
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 BEATS AND RHYMESSo, you're throwing a little end-of-summer party and you want everything to be just right. You spent all day yesterday cleaning your shit (cot damn, you really should scrub the floor behind your toilet more often), stocked your fridge with nothing but green bottles (Heineken and Tanqueray), and pull... | |
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 RETARDO T-SHIRTSWill Lemon Makes Clothes With His Left HandWill Lemon is not just another post-hippie Californian with half-closed eyes, comfy pants, and a "whatever, man" attitude. He is the avatar of a gentle Pacific breeze that has come to the East Coast bearing a suitcase full of T-shirts, jackets, totes, and bandannas with a totally original approach t... | |
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 DEAR DIARYEntry: November 1991November 1991
Dear Diary,
Halloween was amazing. I had the best time. There was no shit or Nair or anything. On Beverly Hills Scott (David Silver's friend) died. He shot himself accidentally with a gun. Mia and I were crying. My nose is still running.... | |
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 THE AMERICAN TOFFSHarmon Shows Fops What Dandy Really MeansThe New York indie fashion scene had one of its few-and-far-between historical moments in the late 90s, when designers were as ubiquitous in the Meatpacking District as tranny whores and slaughtered cows. Two of the luminaries of that time, a couple of designers who made us very happy, were Susan Ci... | |
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCEFrom the fashion hub where a slap in the face is as common as a kiss on both cheeks, gay Paris producer Fred Bigot has been dropping albums, singles, and remixes on more shit-hot labels than any electro one-hit wonders have a right to. Now his latest album, 21st Century Toy, is out on Disko B, and i... | |
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 THE TIT FAIRYOoh La La Keeps Nude Dancers Well DressedRight now, Ooh La La is the most talked-about range of pole-dancing wear in the British sex industry.
Based in Camden, London, founder and head designer Michelle Ochnachie has unrelentingly pumped out bikinis, garter belts, and tube tops since 1995, when she had the epiphany that exotic-dan... | |
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 VICE FASHION - THE BUNNY RANCHIf you served in the recent liberation of Iraq and you can get a ride to Carson City, Nevada, really fast, you can have sex for free with a legal hooker. The Midnite Bunny Ranch, America's most storied lawful whorehouse, is offering something called the "T&A 50" to the first 50 men and women fresh f... | |
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 PERFUME PIRATESRaping and Pillaging the Scent of Dog ShitWhen you splash on your expensive designer fragrance before you hit the town, does it make you feel irresistible? Invincible? A tiny bit better? You probably like to think that one squirt of scent transforms you into a supermodel with perfect feet and tiny pores.... | |
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 DEEP IN THE WOODSThorn's Jewels Are Twigs and Dead SquirrelsWhen photographer Andrea Gentl took on India d'Arthany Adams as her assistant a few years ago, the two found that they shared one of those twins-separated-at-birth peculiarities. As kids, they were both totally obsessed with collecting the little treasures they uncovered in the forests of western Ma... | |
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 GAMESWario Ware, Inc.: Mega Microgame$WARIO WARE, INC.:
MEGA MICROGAME$
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo Japan
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Genre: Every genre ever
Rating: Everybody... | |
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 KING OF BLINGGabriel Jacobs Is the New JacobSince the beginning of time, if you were a rapper who wanted jewelry, you had to go see Jacob the Jeweler. Dude had the whole industry ditch Rolexes in favor of his signature multicolored watch, which was in fact the ugliest thing since Master P sneakers.... | |
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 LITERARYJuergen Teller: Zwei Schäuferle mit Klofl und eine Kinderportion Schnitzel mit Pommes Frites, Witness Iraq: A War Journal February–April 2003, The Berlin YearsJuergen Teller: Zwei Schäuferle mit Klofl und eine Kinderportion Schnitzel mit Pommes Frites
Steidl Books
Hello?! Juergen Teller is one of the hugest fashion photographers in the world. Marc Jacobs, Helmut Lang, Calvin Klein, Yves Saint Laurent, and Commes des Garçons have all h... | |
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 THE HIGH END OF HARLEMSantana's Town is Only a Block AwayCam'ron caused a huge commotion in the rap world when he started wearing head-to-toe pink outfits. Turns out his entire Diplomats crew are couture revolutionaries. Killa Cam rocks graffiti- painted Tims, and Diplomat general Jim Jones stays covered in (mostly red) bandannas. Now Juelz Santana, the b... | |
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 MY AMERICAFashion! Hooray! Clothing and Accessories! The wealthy people get odd hats and chinos (the work pants of yore), and the poor people get gold teeth and $200 sneakers. I don't even know what fashion is exactly, but I'm all for it. I live in New York, where I moved after a delightful nine years in Los ... | |
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 IT WOZ A STITCH UP, GUVN'R!Additional Are Filthy ParasitesThere I was, patiently waiting to plug in my iBook at a party in Berlin, and, ahem, "rock da house with my DJ skillz," when suddenly the guerrilla stitchers from Additional pounced. "Can we customize your eye patch?" they asked.... | |
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 QUITE CONTRARYMary Ping Takes On Gucci and WinsQueens-born designer Mary Ping recently took every Bottega Veneta, Dior, Hermès, Balenciaga, Gucci, and Chanel handbag she could find and tore them apart piece by piece.
She then took a deep breath and quietly recrafted all of their signature bags in stark white canvas, thus rendering each ... | |
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 TIDBITSA monthly look at things we love - v10n7VICE FOR HOUSE OF COURVOISIER
Here's the story: Courvoisier (the fancy drink that P Diddy and Pharrell told you about) now has its own design label called House of Courvoisier. HOC recently had a bunch of New York designers compete for this super-high-paying job designing their shit all ... | |
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 BIRD-WATCHING BONERSIndigo People Makes Nature Sexy AgainIndigo People sounds more like the name of a moon-worshipping hippie commune in Northern California than the current darling of the New York City fashion scene. The work of designer Siri Kuptamethee really exists somewhere in-between the two, indebted to both the wild frontier and the urban hordes. ... | |
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 LONG LIVE DEATHJapanese Street Fashion Won't Stop DyingWe know we've done this to death a thousand times over, but Japanese street fashion still cannot fit into our brains. What the fuck is with these people? These photos weren't shot at 3 a.m. after a Kuri Skull Yakamakooniro concert. They were shot totally unstyled, against a simple black cloth in bro... | |
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 THE VICE GUIDE TO FASCIONIn 1922 Benito Mussolini discovered something incredible: He was better than every living being in the universe. Wearing a simple suit and tie like those freedom-loving pussies wasn't going to cut it. He needed an outfit--an amazing outfit that showed the world exactly how amazing he was. And it wor... | |
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 GEN. BUTT NAKED VS. THE TUPAC ARMYWest Africa Has Gone Mad and It Looks Fantastic!With the recent and totally unexplained attention of the Bush administration on war-torn Liberia, the world's eyes are once again on the happy sands of West Africa. The scramble to make heads or tails of a situation that has neither heads nor tails has left us with the familiar confusion of informat... | |
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 I STILL CAN'T BUY VERSACEThe Day Lumidee Took Us ShoppingFor some reason, critics are not feeling Lumidee. At press time, Entertainment Weekly had just destroyed her "dismal debut," calling her a "comically tone-deaf vocalist." And it's a shame, because what everybody fails to realize is that Lumidee is the new Lisa Lisa. This nineteen-year-old boriqueña ... | |
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 THE NEW ELECTRO BARBARIANSSilures Eat Human Flesh Off the Dance FloorIf you've been on a dance floor at any point in the last two years, you already worship Pascal Arbez-Nicolas's champagne techno style. He records under the name Vitalic, and his Poney EP for Gigolo (the searing anthem "La Rock 01," in particular) reduces millions of ecstatic revelers to quivering bl... | |
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 HIP TO BE SCAREDTV on the Radio Love Huey Lewis"Kyp is like a walking emblem for hipsters. He just oozes color-coordination." So sayeth Tunde Adebimpe, founder of Brooklyn band TV On The Radio, of his group's newest member. Adebimpe is right, too. Kyp does indeed have a certain shy finesse. He knows that modesty is sexy (as are interband latent-... | |
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 SWEAT ROCKFrog Eyes Get a SoakerCarey Mercer is the 27-year-old brain behind Frog Eyes, a band from Victoria, BC, that makes music composed of equal parts glam urgency and complete Tom Waits bat shit. Clothingwise, they don't jazz it up too much-they've got a Home Depot/your-cool-uncle thing goin' on. However, the sheer brilliance... | |
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 BUSHWHACKINGAn Inmate Bemoans Pubic Fashion TrendsI didn't realise it until just the other day, but being in prison for years has made me the kind of filthy old man who used to give me the fear when I was younger (and un-incarcerated). I had this revelation when I was confronted with some very current pornography and was not only turned-on, but als... | |
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 THE NEW OLD STYLEThe Stills Make Everybody Else Look ShabbyThe current fashion for white guitar rock bands with names that begin with 'The' is to ham up that jaded old garage rock thing with the bad leather jackets, wristbands, ironic t-shirts and shit hair. I hate them so much I've learned to spot them from a mile away and, when I do, I run the other direc... | |
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 VICE AT GLASTONBURYStarring Erol Alkan, Audio Bullies, Raf Daddy and Frank Tope.
Many thanks to all at the Lock Tavern and PlayStation 2. See you next year.... | |
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 VICE FASHION - NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCHWhen we first decided that we wanted to use Aboriginal people in our shoot, we had little idea how difficult it would be to find them. There are disturbingly few of our native people around - especially in Victoria. Eventually we made friends with this crew of artists and actors and all headed down ... | |
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 LUST AND FOUNDFee Steals Weird Shit to Make You PrettyI remember when I was seventeen, my friends and I would rock massively oversized pants and baggy overalls to help obscure the items which we lifted from the shelves of our local shops. That was never a good look. Luckily Fee Dunaway is making it possible for us to stick to tight pants these days by ... | |
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 FANCEE PANTSBonnie is Putting Monsters in Your ClosetBonnie Gillard will fulfil any request for one of her unique creations, so long as she believes you can handle it.
It is as though each of her pieces has been torn from the clutches of an overzealous five year old art student, with monsters for best friends, and then worn for a month straig... | |
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