Posts Tagged ‘Fashion’
BONG LOADED HIGH STREET FASHION FROM P.A.M.
Any suspicions that you may have had about the ladies from P.A.M. actually being a pair of extremely motivated, Australian stoners rather than a couple of uptight, design nerds were indubitably confirmed when their press release stated that their POP! Eyes collection was inspired by David Attenborough’s The Tribal Eye. Take a look at their new adventure onto high street HERE and load up the bong before you head out to the teepee. Read on
WISH YOU WERE HERE.
Be sure to check out the Wish You Were Here pop up shop on Orchard Street before it ends on Sept. 13th! The concept is to swap up & coming NY and London designers between their respective homes (LDN to NY and vice versa) in order to expose their wares to a whole new audience of fashionable people who may not be familiar with their foreign stylings. Get all the info on who’s participating, exact location, calendar of events and more by clicking HERE.
RAVED OUT SOWETO FASHION SLUMS.
Our buddies at Live From the Coast tipped us off to Johannesburg photographer Chris Saunders the other day and we decided to keep the chain mail going by giving it a REEEEEEEEEEEEEPOST. Check out the beautiful slew of portraiture, documentary photography, and fine art but be sure to give an extra special double check to the spread he did for Colors Magazine on the raved out Soweto fashion slums. We can’t really imagine the soundtrack that matches their streetwears but someone should definitely send it to us. Read on
ROKSANDA ILINCIC’S SLAVIC ROMANTICISM.
Roksanda Illincic’s sometimes-affordable opulence is on everyone from Claudia Schiffer to Cate Blanchett to Barbie. Her patent brand of slavic romanticism is expressed via frostily muted colors, 3D draping and mesh while striking Gehry-esque shapes as it hangs from shoulders and hips. Check out more of her stuff HERE. Wow. Read on
SPIKE JONZE DIGS NEOPRENE.
Can you tell we have beach on the mind? All we do is romanticize it for days stuck in the middle of a concrete jungle but summer ain’t sticking around for too much longer. On the other hand, designer Alexandra Cassaniti’s mantra “it’s always summer somewhere” will inspire you to get fitted with her year round neoprene summer collections. Check out her campaign with amigo Spike Jonze endorsing their poolside antics. Read on
ALEXANDER WANG OFFERS NEW DRUG.
Alexander Wang is like the gateway drug for trust fund junkies searching for downtown cool neo-punk infused looks . He’s also decided to let the boys in on the addiction starting Spring 2010. So if your skills pay bills, feast your eyes on the exclusive men’s preview and get your decadent selection of accessories on their new online store. Read on
WESC 2010 PREVIEW!!! STARTS TODAY!!!!
Our mega pals at Wesc are hosting a preview for their 2010 Spring Line in midtown starting today and ending on the 13th. Email jessie.cohen@wesc.com to make an appointment and hi five the swedes!!!!
DR. 90210 FOR CATS.
Lola Dupre is the Dr. 90210 of the feline world. Her exacto knife has been slicing and dicing the heads off of cats for so long that she has amassed a giant catalog of collage work featuring a veritable petri dish of kitty parts. Sewing, pasting, or hanging the heads of kittens to the bodies of decapitated seals, the hoods of UFOs, or around the silky necks of wafish models gained her a recent feature and cover for Flaunt and brought her kitty surgery to a mass audience while also allowing some of her less Frankensteinian work to be featured as well. Check out her bottomless blog HERE. Read on
GOD’S PREY TAKES DESERT SPIRIT JOURNEY.
The thick, humid, NYC, summertime dumpster batter that is soaking us down from head to toe on the daily has created a longing lilt for the west. Yesterday we threw it up for Warriors of Radness’ beachy ‘tude and now we’re taking a spirit journey through psychedelic rock and sand with God’s Prey. What looks like Sean Reveron and Megan McRae’s tribute to Jodorowsky, Joshua Tree, and the epic peyote scene in Young Guns is better served to be thought of as a uniform to wear while postulating in a peyote haze on the edge of a cliff and calling your “horse” “dog”. We don’t know where to get it as of yet but we guarantee that our zipcar is going to look like it was time traveled in with a naked indian when we return it to the parking garage. Read on
OUTLAW SURFER BROS: WARRIORS OF RADNESS.
We’ve made the Point Break reference once before and now have sincere regrets for doing so. The one analogy that would so perfectly describe Warriors of Radness was wasted so carelessly on another group of Californian outlaws doing some really amazing stuff and now we can hardly live with ourselves. But WOR really are THE OUTLAW SURFER BROS WHO DROVE AROUND IN ARMY SURPLUS JEEPS TERRORIZING TRAFFIC except now they’re a little older and funneling all that mid-20s angst into some locals-only t-shirts, pink pinstriped shorts, and day glo swim wear instead of nose daggering a mountain of cocaine. Shop on their online store HERE or go to Opening Ceremony. Read on
Grace Jones Hurricane.
We were so despondent after missing Grace Jones’ show at Hammerstein this past Thursday that we put her new LP, Hurricane, on repeat and locked ourselves in our tiny apartments for the entire weekend. As time flew by we realized her first record in nearly 20 years is everything a rabid Grace Jones fan could hope for. Our fingers will remain crossed in hopes that she will come back to NY once the record is actually out. Until then we will continue watching the slew of videos that immediately went up on youtube last Friday. Read on
JC / DC SLAUGHTERS LIVE MUPPETS FOR FALL.
Jean Charles De Castelbajac’s spewing vomit stream of pop culture insanity has the uncanny ability of making guests at his runway shows convulse with caligulan giggle fits at the sheer ridiculousness of their place in what always seems like some bizarre 5th dimensional punch line. Legos, McDonalds, Rubic’s Cubes, and now Muppett’s!!!!! Our face just melted on our keyboards!! He even has that doofus Lady Gaga decked out in Kermit pelts!!! Read on
MONCLER MODELS ARE TOTAL DOGS!!!!
So, Moncler was all like: “Bruce, do vat you vant. Take some pics and make some art.” And Bruce Weber took that as a manadate to dress up his golden retrievers in Moncler coats, fall asleep in a pile of cameras, and then pay a bunch of younguns to roll a humongous ball made of Moncler jackets up a hill. Sounds like what fashion photography used to be like in the golden years. Time to get back! Read on
DISCOFUNBATH
http://www.vimeo.com/10037030Alpha Vomero, a NY-based wardrobe stylist and fashion designer – not to mention really good friend of WMIG – takes photos of on-the-street fashion to display on her mega awesome blog DISCOFUNBATH. She spends her days shopping her butt off, drinking vanilla lattes and traveling through every New York City nook, giving her a unique view of fashion and trends that the average walk down the street might not yield. WMIG followed her around on a few of her typical days to create this little behind-the-scenes-style film. Kind of like a day in the life of a style blogger.
PLEET TV
http://www.vimeo.com/10037358WMIG and Samantha Pleet have been toiling long and hard to finish up the new lookbook for the Samantha Pleet Holiday Collection and it is finally here! Pleet TV, in all it’s disheveled glory, is our take on a clothing line’s video lookbook. Part TV Party, part Wayne’s World, and part Muppet Show; we smashed all of these glorious things together to create a rough cut fly by the seat of your pants tv show style lookbook that presents Samantha’s new holiday collection in a hilariously unscripted public access cable kind of setting. We built the set in an abandoned warehouse, set up one 16mm camera and 2 HD video cameras then unleashed the Pleet family to drink champagne, dance, sing, tap dance, and make us laugh all while wearing the charming wares of Samantha Pleet. With cameos from a host of familiar faces like the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Carlen Altman, and Au Revoir Simone it’s quite a unique snapshot of Samantha Pleet and all her amazing friends. Viva la PLEET TV!!!! Read on