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fashion

Breaking: Vampire Weekend's Mothers Dress Them Funny

This weekend, Vampire Weekend cemented their superstar status, joining the ranks of such timeless acts as 3-D, the Tragically Hip, the Bus Boys, Timbuk3, and the Hothouse Flowers as musical guests on Saturday Night Live! There's been a lot of talk about whether these guys are really Columbia douchebags or just playing up an image of Columbia douchebags and while there've been some salient points about the precarious position of class and race, we... wait a minute, what the fuck is that guy wearing? Really? A scarf the size of a tent? Indoors? He looks like Stuart Little after he curls up for a nap inside a shirt sleeve. More »

9:30 AM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Christopher Weingarten
3,300 views, 56 comments

Latest by SpeedyGonzalas: "Going preppy is punk rock if you think about it." You are so OTM. GG Allin was an Izod wearing bastard weren't he? Preppy asshole, that GG. more »

fashion

Elton John Brings Feathers Back To His Wardrobe

Recently the Maori decided that Elton John should drop the staid black-suited look and get back to his flashy roots. Luckily, they had just the garment to help him get there: a handmade bird-feather cloak—the "equivalent to an Academy Award"—that they awarded to Sir Elton in honor of his "loyal continuance to return to Aotearoa to entertain." More »

3:30 PM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By Kate Richardson
179 views, Comment

turn to the left, turn to the right, now stab that guy in the face

Corpse Paint: It's Not Just For Racially Motivated Slayings Anymore

So first artsy-fartsy sculptor Banks Violette siphons off some of the kult darkness of black metal, the awesomely unlistenable (if yr not a fan) subgenre that originated in Scandinavia and has since spread like a rat-borne plague to such bleak locations as the South of France and Tasmania, and now Brazilian fashion designer Alexandre Herchcovitch has gotten in touch with his inner sense of necro with some metal-derived designs. Check out a YouTube clip from a corpsed-up Herchcovitch runway show after the jump: More »

10:27 AM on Wed Aug 22 2007
By jharv
1,162 views, 8 comments

Latest by DK10: Tasmania is definitely not bleak. Remote, yes, but bleak, no. I'm just saying. more »

rampant boomer nostalgia

You Say You Want A Revolution? How About A $325 Belt Buckle Instead?

To your left, the manifesto from the latest collection offered by Lyric Culture, a Los Angeles-based peddler of $90 "Rebel Rebel" t-shirts and $325 "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" belt buckles. Because there's no better accessory for your midlife crisis than an overpriced trinket that uses a much wordier take on 20-year-old Nike campaign for its marketing hook. More »

9:30 AM on Fri Jun 8 2007
By mjohnston
158 views, 6 comments

fashion

For $600, You Too Can Own A Wearable Punk-Rock Puzzle

We're guessing that the fashion department at the New York Post isn't on a lot of music promo lists; the paper's caption underneath the above picture refers to a "graffiti-print" Stephen Sprouse dress, even though it's clearly patterned with a jumble for punk-rock nerds. (So far, we've spotted the Black Flag, Public Image Limited, and Tuxedomoon (!) logos.) Two factors are making us not rip our hair out about this dress: the cut-and-paste playfulness, which is a lot more inventive than those CBGB armbands; and its 1988 street date, meaning that it probably wasn't ripped off by an Urban Outfitters designer a week later. More »

3:50 PM on Tue Jan 30 2007
By mjohnston
38 views, Comment

fashion

Has Karl Lagerfeld Been Reading Pitchfork Again?

A few weeks after tapping Chan Marshall for a modeling gig, Chanel head Karl Lagerfeld has landed on another muse beloved by the yupster crowd: pint-sized Brit Lily Allen. More »

1:14 PM on Fri Nov 10 2006
By mjohnston
502 views, 2 comments

bryan ferry

Frankly, Bryan Ferry, We Expected More Than This

Yes, that's Roxy Music bon vivant Bryan Ferry—a man who taught an entire generation of '70s British rockers how to keep up with the rigorous standards of high fashion—modeling Burberry in this week's New Yorker. Look, the guy helped write "Virginia Plain," so he can wear whatever the hell he damn pleases, but doesn't he realize that Burberry is pretty much written off in the U.K. as low-rent thug wear? Can't someone get Jeffrey Sebelia to intervene?

No Kick From 'Chavpagne' [WSJ]

4:46 PM on Tue Sep 19 2006
By Brian Raftery
592 views, 14 comments

Latest by yolakayak: He sort of looks like one of the missing Baldwins... more »