Could you pitch a no-hitter while tripping on LSD? Check out illustrator James Blagden’s hilarious video that landed him in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival.
This Fashion Week (a mere three weeks away!) will be the last held at Bryant Park. Don’t miss the CFDA party celebrating Lincoln Center as the new home of New York Fashion Week.
Step off the plane into a wave of humidity, scented with flowers, spice, and ocean air. After a month of roughing it in India, join Jessica Marati for a little R&R — a long weekend in Bali…
Chinese artist Li Xiaofeng recycles shards and pieces of porcelain from various Chinese dynasties and uses them like an armor to create contemporary clothing including gowns and a jacket, shirt, and tie. The effect is quite shattering.
Fashion lovers around the country eagerly wait for their daily e-mail from Gilt, an online sample sale — meet Gilt Groupe founders, Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson.
Join Jessica Marati for an inside look at the self-sustaining universal city — Auroville.
Check out some of the past decade’s hottest looks.
If you’re an aspiring green fashion designer, and didn’t get picked for Franca Sozzani’s workshop in Biella, Italy, fear not: Suzy Amis Cameron — model, activist, and wife of some guy named James — is offering you a shot at red carpet exposure. Her “Red Carpet Green Dress” competition, launched last month, challenges upcoming designers to “create a black tie dress made of natural/organic or sustainable materials while also encouraging these future designers to estimate carbon footprints when creating their clothing lines.” Amis Cameron will wear the winning dress for her various red carpet appearances in February and March, and bring the designer to LA for consultation and some VIP treatment.
A long-time environmental activist, Amis Cameron launched Red Carpet Green Dress to widen the spotlight on sustainable fashion, and to raise funds for MUSE Elementary, a non-profit educational organization she started with her sister Rebecca Amis. Serving pre-kindergarten – 5th grade students from across the socio-economic spectrum, MUSE aims “…to inspire children to live more conscious lives in relation to themselves, one another and the planet.” Amis Cameron notes “Red Carpet Green Dress perfectly connects to MUSE Elementary’s global green philosophy by applying environmental awareness to our everyday lives… I look forward to Red Carpet Green Dress becoming a signature event, not only for MUSE, but also for Hollywood’s award season.”
Got a design in mind? Don’t wait around… the deadline for entries is January 22nd. Let us know if you submit something… and we’ll keep an eye out for the announcement of the winner.
This item might be more appropriate for the Full Frontal Fashion blog, but the blogosphere collectively struggles with body image issues which is sparked by things like this: Terry Richardson photographed models Jacquelyn Jablonski and Crystal Renn, a leading lady among plus size models, wearing the same clothes for V Magazine’s ‘Plus Size’ January 2010 issue. While fashion magazines and editorials can be inspirational in terms of diversifying one’s “look,” can we stop viewing them as measuring sticks of ideal body types? Relatedly, I’m ready for my side-by-side comparison with Daniel Henney, Asian American superstar model-slash-Agent Zero.
There’s the enjoi knit version (above), which POW claims is an infringement on their style copyright for the finger colors of pink and brown (they have a freaking copyright on that?). But then there’s the Shocker Glove Company too, which a guy from POW told us uses a different “shocker” reference (i.e. not sexual), but when we pointed out their gloves also have the two red fingers and one brown pinkie indicative of that, um, handwork technique, we never heard back. Who knew there was such competition and variety in the crass hand accessories biz? On the one hand (heh, heh), these types of gloves could be seen as putting female sexual pleasure first (this move only works on women for obvious reasons) since men don’t really get any focused stimulation while delivering said move — it’s pretty anti-phallocentric, which is nice for a change. On the other hand, let’s come down to Earth: It’s a sexual gimmick attempted in order to gain bragging rights about what dudes can “get away with” in bed. It’s making sex a crude, immature joke (not that some of the best sex can’t be crude and/or immature). Who is the target market for these gloves besides 15-year-old skate rats and snowboarders who have very little knowledge or understanding of female pleasure? That can’t be a strong business model. Of course, suckers like us help promote them with posts like this. However, it would be our strong recommendation to avoid pursuing anything amorous or romantic with anyone caught wearing these. They might as well be wearing a t-shirt that says “I’ll subject you to dutch ovens when we’re in bed, too.”
WWD reported that in anticipation of Charles Schulz’s beloved Snoopy’s 60th birthday next year, Japan’s Fashion Week kicked off recently with top fashion brands such as “Hermes, Chloe, Chanel, and Balenciaga” commissioned to create outfits for Charlie Brown’s pet beagle-slash-World War 1 flying ace. View more photos here.
CRUSHfanzine is a self-published by two guys, Nicolas & Khary, and it’s a zine focusing on a single theme. Their current issue is all about the obsession with feet. Yes, I said feet. Called Foot Soldiers it explores a fetish that many don’t know exists or keep secret. While I love the book and think you should pick it up I also encourage you to check out the pop-up shop if in NYC. The items they’re selling, including one of a kind customized Chuck Taylor All Stars by NY designers and artists Desi Santiago, Zaldy and Miguel Villalobos, sound awesome. But I am most intrigued to see the guys who show up. If anything like those featured in the zine you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
If the news we reported recently about Betty Dodson’s Genital Art Gallery being forced offline really got you down, here’s something to brighten your day: There’s an Etsy retailer called Vulva Love Lovely dedicated exclusively to women’s genital and reproductive artsy craftsy thingies. We’re fans of the more lighthearted, graphical stuff: the little cartoon uterus pillows and the vagina dentata clutch. Babeland (the folks we heard about Vulva Love Lovely from) really like the vulva portrait necklaces fashioned after customers’ own naughty bits (you send them a photo or description to work from). We could maybe see carrying around one of their little generic vulva pendants on a keychain as a funny feminist statement…maybe. But wearing your own spread eagle around your neck? That takes serious labes.
As Fashion Week winds down here in the Big Apple and the dust settles many a gay are left talking about what’s happening in fashion. Yes, we gays discuss fashion. I know, shocking.
The press is picking up on a new trend that even I, one of the biggest gays in this oh-so gay town, could not possibly pull off. Bows. Yes, those bows. The ones on Minnie Mouse’s head and your Prom date’s satin pink dress. Those bows.
Tilda Swinton at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival
Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld as seen in HABILLÉES POUR L’ÉTÉ 2010 bonus material
Bread shoes by Remigijus and Egidijus Praspaliauskas
