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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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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WTF Gadget-friendly jeans feature a hidden memory stick pocket, an iPhone pocket with padding, and a padded crotch (because they’re for dudes, obvs). You won’t be getting laid, but at least your iPod won’t get all scratched up! It’s a pretty even trade-off, I’d say.
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I don’t like to go out a lot in the middle of winter in Minnesota. Mainly because it is freezing cold. Plus there is a lot of snow. Plus I am really fashion-ey. So, half the fun of going out for me is dressing up and being seen on the scene. But in January...
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Velvet has a bit of an image problem. People think of it as a fussy and old fashioned, like something your cello instructor used to wear. What you need to look for in order to make velvet look modern and current is simplicity of line. Don’t wear a velvet scarf with a broach. Do...
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I downloaded Pantone’s Fashion Color Report for Spring 2010 and poured through the 37 pages so I could sum up the upcoming color trends for you here. It looks like spring will be about vibrant brights that are going to be grounded with practical neutrals.
“Now more than ever, women are vigilant when it comes...
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The popularity of Mad Men and stars like Katy Perry and Lady GaGa have started a surprising retro trend: pointy bras. The resurgence of the Madonna-esque John-Paul Gaultier bullet style bras seems almost inevitable. Yet this trend didn’t start in with Madonna and the 1980′s. It comes from an earlier era and from and...
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With style that more than rips off the Michael Jackson look, a collection by designer Stella McCartney will soon be coming to Gap Kids. She has been known to design clothing for her own children as well as for the little ones of BFFs Madonna and Gwyneth. The collection will drop into stores this...
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Currently there is a Samurai Boom among Japanese women. A recent article in The Economist titled, “They Need Another Hero“, talks about young women making pilgrimages to a village in central Japan to pay homage to Ieyasu Tokugawa, Japan’s mightiest shogun.
When did it become trendy for Japanese women to turn into history buffs? It is...
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Prepare to get yourself armed and loaded. This season’s must have fashion accessory is the armwarmer. What are armwarmers? Arm warmers are knitted “sleeves” worn on arms. Just like legwarmers, armwarmers were first worn by dancers at the start of class when warming up. Now the fashion world has caught up and as the...
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