VICE FASHION - KITTY CITY
Conceptual boss /Art Director: Judi Rosen
Photographer: Tim Barber
Set Design: Amy Henry
Stylist: Gia Bahm
Animal Care & Control: Latisha Townsend of New York, Brooklyn shelter
Photo Assistant: Mike Spears
Production Assistants: Melissa Kussman, Hester Sunshine, Ly Ngo
Special thanks: Keeva Hallferty,
Brooke Backman, Stephanie Jurist, Jameyka Birhan, Eniko, Royce Meier
Extra special thanks to the New York City Animal Care and Control Brooklyn Adoption Center and Brooklyn Animal Resource Center (BARC Shelter) for the kittens and for trusting us. If you want to adopt kittens from this shoot, write to vice@viceland.com. If you want to adopt any animals, NYCACC and BARC are the way to go.
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
437 East 9th Street,
New York, New York 10009
212.473.3769
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Peeping Tom: American Apparel T-shirt; Kitty on the Stoop: Dreamcatcher Top By Built By Wendy, shorts by Opening Ceremony, necklace by Hester Sunshine and Melissa Cussman; Shoes on telephone line: The Pump Bringback by Reebok.
Lil Kitty in the Street: T-shirt by Brooklyn Industries, jeans by Rogan; “Hazzak”: vintage fur vest available at Rejoice; vintage “Morris the Cat” shirt available at Atomic Passion, necklace by Hester Sunshine and Melissa Cussman; Other Punk Cat: hoodie by Knights of the Vampire Killers; pants by Knights of the Vampire Killers, T-shirt by Le Merde;
Girl Cat on Bed: Pineapple Tooshie Set by C. Ronson; Girl Kitty on floor: Jumper by eniko; Peeping Tom: American Apparel T-shirt; Guitar Strap by Built by Wendy
Lady Cat in front: dress by Libertine; Boy: shirt by anything; Other kitties: dress by United Bamboo, bandana available at The Good The Bad and the Ugly, T-shirt by Name Value available at Sugarhead Quarters, vintage Vest available at Beacon’s Closet, running shorts from Adidas.
On Left: 3-button shirt by Penguin, jeans by Loomstate; On right: velour 77-78 Track suit by Adidas, necklace by Surface To Air; On floor: trouser pants by anything, t-shirt by Rockers NYC, t-shirt by Surface to Air.
SEE ALL ARTICLES BY THIS CONTRIBUTORCOMMENTS
Subject: re:G
Date: May 09 2007 04:11:26 AM
Author: daw
craft stores. dollhouse people are fanatical.
signed
-- not a vice employee
Subject: mini
Date: Dec 04 2005 04:32:14 PM
Author: G
where the fuck did you find mini smokes and bud cans?! genius.
Subject: kittens
Date: Oct 19 2005 09:31:57 PM
Author: lauren m
aww i love baby kittens
Subject: HEY HOLY FUCK SHIT
Date: Oct 08 2005 09:01:41 PM
Author: nyjj
WHY DON'T YOU QUIT FUCKIN YOU MAMA AND DADDY IN DE ASSHOLE.... YOU BIG FAT BITCH!!!!
Subject: I heart you T
Date: Oct 03 2005 07:28:25 AM
Author: Mbone
the "small shaky animals" in all the glorious style were almost too good to be true...but then you wrote what you did and i peed a couple drops of joy
Subject: The kittens
Date: Oct 02 2005 08:58:16 AM
Author: T
Wow it's like theres a whole little city full of these small shaky animals.
And what style!
You can just imagine the night clubs they have there...
Subject: Pussy
Date: Sep 27 2005 01:39:08 PM
Author: Heman
Very Funny!
Subject: kittenz
Date: Sep 25 2005 06:17:36 PM
Author: ellie
i love it when i see animals doing things that people do.
Subject: math
Date: Sep 22 2005 07:52:13 PM
Author: metasin
this rulez
Subject: I fuckin hate cats
Date: Sep 21 2005 07:07:18 PM
Author: leveskk
glad to see there actually is a use for cats, stoners can dress them up and take photos...And all this time i tought the only thing they could do is shit in a box and then walk on my counter. nice work
Subject: kittens
Date: Sep 21 2005 03:13:41 PM
Author: fuck you
HOLD THE FUCK ON!!
Did Gavin not JUST WRITE an article about how shitty dog owners in the city were? For doing exactly what they're doing right fuckin' here? In this very same issue?
How can his brain not explode from being the exact opposite of himself??
Subject: Thank you
Date: Sep 19 2005 05:55:26 PM
Author: Hasi
thank you, vice. your kitty city shoot inspired me to write a visual rhetoric paper about it for my english class.
Subject: amazing.
Date: Sep 16 2005 04:17:34 PM
Author: pussy
this is the most amazing thing i've ever seen.
Subject: Pish
Date: Sep 16 2005 02:01:51 PM
Author: Voiceover Artist
All kittens are cunts
Subject: shut up cat lovers
Date: Sep 15 2005 05:15:53 PM
Author: cat lover
jesus h. christ, I cant believe some of these people are whining about the "torturing" of these poor defenseless kittens. With that logic, I suppose Wegman's dogs were stuffed, and at the very least Anne Geddes fed heroin to all those babies and shoved sticks up their butts to get them posed. You can put a kitten in a trance by rolling it on it's back, they sleep 18 hours a day fer crap sake. Patience and ingenuity go a long way.
Subject: ...
Date: Sep 15 2005 03:34:23 AM
Author: Donello
That's right, "neo-con" VICE!! Fuck, ever since Noam Chomsky pulled the wool from your eyes nothing those PRO-BUSINESS closet Republicans Vice does gets past you!! You're too smart for that, and you have a duty to let everyone know it!!
FUCK!! Did you seriously go to college to get that stupid?!
Sorry for my rant but I'm actually angry that people this dumb are actually still alive in North America in 2005.
Subject: Who are you people? ??
Date: Sep 15 2005 03:22:07 AM
Author: donello
Do most people who post on Vice just find little petty left-wing grievences to shout 'fuck sihitbag racist hypocrite scumbag I hop e you junkies die in yer own vomit!! RaCISTS!'
They are not racist. They plant little un-p.c. venus fly traps to catch you so we can all laugh at you.
Yes you, the people who think VIce is "neo-con".
Subject: C'mon
Date: Sep 15 2005 01:36:55 AM
Author: BABABA
"oh that's so cruel!!" C'mon this is fucking hilarious and brilliant. This made me giggle like a little girl. Thank you for whoever took the time to do this.....
Subject: Oh my
Date: Sep 14 2005 09:37:50 AM
Author: Livingston M. Whiteman
Well, this is just too bad. Not even "good" bad, either. (or is good/bad bad now?)
However, I will say I find it refreshing that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, which could be considered hip about this venture.
So thanks - I think (?)
LMW
Subject: crap
Date: Sep 13 2005 09:37:49 AM
Author: jacob_c
a crap
Subject: this is stupid
Date: Sep 13 2005 01:48:29 AM
Author: Christina Applegate
i am not reporting on a cat fashion show!
Subject: die, die now
Date: Sep 12 2005 10:28:59 PM
Author: critic
there is a special place in hell reserved for whoever thought up this fiasco.
I might forgive the fact that you used defensless animals against their will if the end result where pleasing, or eye catching, or clever in some way. Unfortunalty,the spread looks like shit.
Congrats, you tortured those poor creatures for nothing.
Subject: the above pictures
Date: Sep 12 2005 08:31:59 PM
Author: liz
I wish I could hang out with these kitties. Their lives seem so cool. =)
Subject: BERZERKER
Date: Sep 12 2005 02:32:25 PM
Author: see-at-oh
Someone should check out the Ride Snowboards BERZERKER board. They did the same concept a year ago but not only with kittens...they had a two puppies and a bunny as well.
http://www.ridesnowboards.com/dfc/default.asp?productid=
22 />
...if that doesn't take you there just go to their site and click on the DFC logo in the lower corner and then Berzerker in the Boards area.
Good stuff.
Subject: holy fuck shit
Date: Sep 12 2005 12:28:35 PM
Author: alicia
give those kittens to me pronto so i can smother them to death and then wear all there clothes
Subject: Kittens
Date: Sep 11 2005 06:22:05 PM
Author: Naomi
You suck. You can tell those kittens HATE
being dressed up in those stupid bloody outfits.
Only flippen dogs take that shit.
Animals werent born to be dressed up you meataxes.
Subject: Shitless
Date: Sep 11 2005 12:59:14 PM
Author: Bored
Pfft, B3ta.com has been doing fluffy fasion for years.
Subject: fghfgh
Date: Sep 08 2005 12:08:17 AM
Author: ghfg
I THINK IT'S FUNNY THEY'RE PLAYING VICE CITY IN THE LAST ONE
Subject: Kitties
Date: Sep 06 2005 10:01:30 AM
Author: Patsy B
I think they're hilarious! But what's next? Kitty pornos?
Subject: jasdkjgnklsg
Date: Sep 05 2005 05:41:12 PM
Author: Alice
they are so cute! I cannot tell I lie. Don't even make me.
Subject: Fatboy Slim remix of 'Space Cowboy'?
Date: Sep 05 2005 01:18:54 PM
Author: Nemo
Like the Jamiroquai(sp) song? Why would you remix that? Oh yeah, cause you're Fatboy Slim and your career, along with those of the Chemical Brothers,and Crystal Method are over. Does that dodgey 'Rain' club in Vegas have a lounge hour for these guys?
Oh yeah, fuckin' brilliant shoot, by the way; should have used these pix for the 'Do's and Dont's' caption competition.
Hiphop cats:
Sleepy cat on the sofa: "Damn, nigga, I'm fadin' like a muhfucka-shit's makin me.. sleepy"
Other Cat: "AHHHH, A TALKING KITTEN!!!"
Subject: yeah
Date: Sep 05 2005 12:45:27 AM
Author: r2d2
How high are those cats?
Subject:
Date: Sep 04 2005 11:05:59 PM
Author:
man, now every time I read Vice I walk away conflicted as to whether I liked it or not... I think that's the point, but still... I hate thinking for myself. Why can't they just tell me what to think and wear again?
Subject: fuckwits
Date: Sep 04 2005 02:48:35 PM
Author: Mike
Did you eat the kittens after the photoshoot?
Subject: rich kittens
Date: Sep 03 2005 10:56:43 PM
Author: nasty naj
it sucks that kittens can afford Loomstate denim but i cant
Subject: arseholes
Date: Sep 03 2005 03:58:34 PM
Author: jim
stupid arseholes
Subject: Fuck
Date: Sep 03 2005 01:51:01 AM
Author: Brad
Those kittens are so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is shear gold.
Brilliant!
Subject: Poor Kittens!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Sep 02 2005 05:32:19 PM
Author: Jen
I like kittens as much as the next person. But you have to feel sorry for them. I hope you didn't hurt tem getting them into those stupid outfits. poor things
Subject: aww...
Date: Sep 02 2005 01:56:57 PM
Author: Sara
I like the cat looking in the window at the kitties on the bed.
Who doesn't love some pussy?
Homos, thats who.
Subject: No one noticed the drugs?
Date: Sep 01 2005 08:26:35 PM
Author: Losemoney
No one noticed that the cats in 2 of these pictures were high? The cat's with the martinis have lines of coke set up on the coffe table for their classy soire. The hip-hop cats, however, prefer a blunt, but are just letting it chill in their ash tray, with the tobacco of the cigar in the ash tray in the bottom right corner of the pic.
Subject: fucking stupid cats
Date: Sep 01 2005 05:19:52 PM
Author: sleepykisser
i hate cats.
Subject: Fatboy Video
Date: Sep 01 2005 02:52:30 PM
Author: Zeke
The slum and bedroom sets are straight out of the Fatboy Slim vid. What's the deal?
http://extreme.colonelblimp.com/directors/waverlyfilms/m
ovies/WF_fatboy_joker_S.mov
Subject: jod
Date: Aug 31 2005 11:50:31 PM
Author: focusdaily
this was amazing. i can sleep at night
do a finger puppet one damnit
Subject: Oh MY god.....
Date: Aug 31 2005 09:22:04 AM
Author: Kaxtie
This is totally, without a doubt, THE single cutest thing I have seen in my entire existance. Seriously. Fucking KITTENS! The only way it would possibly be any cuter is if there was one of them riding a roller coaster... or some other amusement park bullshit.
Subject: Uh hu...
Date: Aug 30 2005 02:58:38 PM
Author: Aurora
For fuck-sake...Duct Tape
Subject: hisssss
Date: Aug 28 2005 03:11:45 AM
Author: star me kitten
"why not trap a rainbow in a jar, while you're at it"
Subject: Satoru Tsuda
Date: Aug 27 2005 06:52:10 PM
Author: Robert Lauriston
There's instructions on the Web site of the Japanese guy who invented this kind of stuff 25 years ago. My favorite has a cat holding a protest sign that says, "Don't Pelorian."
http://www.nameneko.com/nameneko_e/
Subject: Priceless
Date: Aug 27 2005 01:54:59 PM
Author: faithsalon
How were you able to pull this off? Kittens are extremely difficult to work with. I've tried many a time dressing my cats up and it always ends in an angry hissing claw fight. If this is real then I want to see more of Kitty City. Dibs on the sleeping kitty in the velour suit.
Subject: how awful
Date: Aug 26 2005 09:21:28 PM
Author: Marco
Those poor little cats...you're all horrible, horrible people.
Subject: yes
Date: Aug 26 2005 09:00:44 PM
Author: dw
i mean i like this and all but its totally distracting from the clothes. aren't models meant to be just the bassnote to what they're displaying? I don't understand. Its NOT a fashion shoot. and how the FUCK did they get those clothes did they shrink them? Did the designers tailor make the clothes. UGH ITS TOO HARD TO THINK OF!
Subject: fucking wankers
Date: Aug 26 2005 07:43:06 PM
Author: ab
Biggest peice of shit ever, as if cats weren't bad enugh already you had to dress them up like afucking teen slut a fat chich and a coupple of homos i hate these cats
Subject: Vice Fashion
Date: Aug 26 2005 02:27:24 PM
Author: Al Cabino
original and fun.
Subject: address?
Date: Aug 25 2005 11:26:22 PM
Author: doctor scroggins
who do i write to if i want to eat and/or fuck the kittens, you knights in shining armor
Subject: Yeah Dude
Date: Aug 25 2005 07:49:14 PM
Author: Darrrryl
Well it's aboot fucking time that you showed hip-hop kittens playing Xbox and drinking 40's. I've been up on this trend for, like, ever.
Subject: yes
Date: Aug 25 2005 05:33:11 PM
Author: ronald reagan
oh jesus christ. kittens in american apparel. i feel like your fucking stepfather and i just caught you masturbating over my dress shirts.
Subject: memo to miffy
Date: Aug 25 2005 11:13:14 AM
Author: Judi Rosen
Thank you for reminding me of what a rip-off artist I am. It's important for watchdogs like you to keep me in check. Until reading your comment I'd had myself convinced I was drawing influence from 1920's pelorian photos and 80's Japanese kitten calenders. I'd even started to believe I was adding some of my own ideas to this tradition. I'm sorry. You're right, even though I've never seen the video you're refering to...I owe it all to Fatboy Slim. Please allow to just get on with my day and pretend this never happened. Today I'm designing some outfits for Franz Ferdinand...the inventors of Rock 'n Roll.
Subject: omfg
Date: Aug 25 2005 03:22:55 AM
Author: qwerty
i mean... shit... do i have to fucking quote you?? Kittens playing pool. Kittens in a rock band. Kittens wearing sunglasses drinking Fanta through a straw. Cowboy kittens. A troupe of kittens touring comedy clubs. Kittens talking on the phone to other kittens. Kittens upside down. Kittens licking their buttholes with their leg sticking up in the air. America's Funniest Kittens. Teeny tiny little kittens. KITTENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: sds
Date: Aug 24 2005 05:20:53 PM
Author: dan
best thing to come out of vice ever.
Subject: linky
Date: Aug 24 2005 12:39:29 PM
Author: That dude from Toronto
"These pictures are going to make the 'rounds on the internet literally forever. Infact I predict this will be the most linked to Vice page in the history of this site."
I agree.
Subject: holy shit
Date: Aug 24 2005 07:33:54 AM
Author: fighting newfoundlander
i love it
Subject: Hello...
Date: Aug 24 2005 02:59:39 AM
Author: Miffy
Um, Fatboy Slim's remix of Space Cowboy, anyone? The video? I call bullshit on rip-offs, but kudos for kittens. Kittens!
Subject: These pictures
Date: Aug 24 2005 12:55:37 AM
Author: Jeff
These pictures are going to make the 'rounds on the internet literally forever. Infact I predict this will be the most linked to Vice page in the history of this site.
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