People often ask me what the most popular posts on my blog are. Now that the blog is a year old it seems like a good time to sit back and reflect. In general my most popular posts tend to be the ones I write about fashion trends, scientific studies, and famous people. With...
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You want a brown or black leather aviator jacket next winter. So start looking now. It should be short and cropped, a little military inspired with a lining of shearling. Or at least a suggestion of it. It should have shape and structure to counteract the heaviness of the jacket.
Why? Because the military...
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When Miu Miu endorse a trend you KNOW it’s big news, and their new campaign has gone heavy on the sugared almond shades. The good news is that pastels don’t just look great in the packaging; they work on all shades of skin, from pale to bronzed to deep, dark skin. The 80s Disco...
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Berlin fashion designer Patrick Mohr is living out the crazy fashion designer stereotype in a way that not even Bruno or Mugatu could have dreamed up by sending female models down the runway with bald heads and stringy beards. Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer collection had models turned into aliens via the magic of make-up, but...
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This summer, shorts are as likely to be appropriate for cocktails at a nightclub as for a game at a ballpark. The once-casual wardrobe staple is being elevated to a new fashion status. Sleek and tailored or poufed and pleated, shorts come in silky prints as well as sturdy cottons.
Shorts this summer are a...
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Hong Kong based designer and illustrator John Woo (not the “Face off” director) created a series of paintings featuring Star Wars characters dressed in some of our favorite labels. Above you see Boba Fett wearing Supreme and Visvim alongside Darth Vader in a full Band of Outsiders kit. A.P.C., Maison Martin Margiela, Thome Brown,...
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On Monday the New York Times ran a story about Jeans Diapers. Yes, the New York Times. Wrote about diapers … that have a blue jeans print on them. The story ran in the “Media & Advertising” section and was about how the company Kimberly-Clark is changing it’s design, packaging, and advertising of diapers...
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There’s a new trend among the hipster girls to dye their hair silver. Yes, the It Girls of England, like Pixie Geldof, are choosing to go gray, as blonde apparently is passe and pink is played out. Silver tresses are reportedly all the rage amongst people who have not yet had to deal with...
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Prom is going porn this year. Slutty chic is the big trend in prom fashion. The NYP did a story on this topic called, “Girls flock to trampy prom dresses“. They spoke to Nathan Vaknin, manager of Fiesta Ladies Fashion, a dress store on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, who said, “For prom this year,...
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Skinny Jeans have been quite popular over the last few years, especially with women. Now it seems the trend has crossed over the gender line and is being seen on men, but does the look actually work? No! Skinny jeans were only seen on men in the prior years, before it became as big...
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