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Collector’s Edition
Undercover’s Jun Takahashi.
An old rock quip has it that only a few thousand people bought The Velvet Underground’s first record, but every one went out and formed a band. (It’s most often attributed to Brian Eno, but as it
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Dressing Your Age
No miniskirts after 40. Or long hair. Sleeveless after 50? Never! There are a lot of women who still believe in age-related fashion dictums, but in a world where everyone from nine to 90 wears jeans, what does “age appropriate”
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Gwyneth Paltrow: She Wears It Well
Gwyneth Paltrow hits the right sartorial note in a skirt-and-shirt combo at her latest book signing.
BY Kate Finnigan |
12 April 2013I’m currently chewing on my own words. Only this morning I was heard to cry to …
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Smoke and Mirrors
Rick Owens’ preferred show venue is a cavernous hall inside a sports stadium in an inconvenient part of Paris. Twenty hours before his Fall runway presentation, he and his close-knit team are there, meeting with Parisian show producers La Mode
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This Is Our Jam Premieres: Fenster, "Spring Break"
Berlin/NYC-based trio Fenster likes throwing around the genre “weird-pop” to describe the band, and after watching the new video for “Spring Break,” you’ll understand why. Animated by German artist Florian Sänger, the video traverses an acid-addled alternate universe where things…
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The One Thing That Actually Helps Sweatshop Reform? College Apparel Activism
You have good taste — but even if the clothes on your back may look like it was spun by fairies in the Keebler workshop, it probably wasn’t made that way. The actual mass production of the clothes we wear…
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Why Is There Such A Weighty Debate About Plus-Size Mannequins?
As you may have already seen, a photo of two mannequins from Swedish department store Åhléns has been circling the Interwebs. While two plastic women typically aren’t the catalyst for a surge of body-image discussions, these mannequins struck a chord …
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The Karl Crew
It’s no secret that where Karl Lagerfeld goes, fashion follows. At last night’s dinner celebrating the launch of his plastic shoe capsule for the Brazilian brand Melissa, the in-crowd was out in force. Carine Roitfeld, Olivier Zahm, André
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The Future Of Fitting Rooms Is All Virtual — & It’s Kind Of Weird
There’s really no feeling as pregnant with possibility as standing in front of a dressing room with an armful of prospects and a paycheck’s worth of funds in your bank account. However, that whole “trying things on” part always seems…
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Kim Kardashian: You Need To Makeover Your Baby Bump Style
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Kim, you need to stop dressing as if you’re not pregnant. Your strategy of wearing skin-tight structured clothing is definitely backfiring! You’re beautiful, and there’s nothing wrong with showing off your bump, but there’s a better way to do
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The Problem With Dior’s All-White Runway
The topic of racial diversity is always one that the fashion world has gingerly broached, perhaps because high fashion seems to be so bad at being all-inclusive. Runway statistics from the fall/winter ’13 Fashion Month reveal that a staggering 90%…
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Henry Holland Talks Sportsgirl, Granny Prints and Bringing London Style to the Streets of Sydney
Alpha60, Antipodium, Richard Nicoll, An Ode to No One: There are a few things all past ‘Sportsgirls Like’ collaborators have in common, and being insanely cool is one of them. For its most recent capsule, the wallet-friendly …