A few days ago when Nan casually mentioned Stolen Girlfriends Club in a conversation about fantastic knit sweaters, his voice trailed off like the wisp from the cigarette he was smoking. It was my own imagination muting him off of course, as I already went back to the time when I first viewed this video of their Untitled 2011 collection.
It was a runway show in a grocery. A FRIGGIN’ RUNWAY SHOW IN A GROCERY.
Models delivered by food van, enter the turnstiles, tore up the length of the aisles, oblivious of the stunned shoppers. Of course this idea might have been in every fashion show director wannabe’s mind and probably has already been done before, but what the heck, the Kiwi boys of SGC did it and did it well. There’s a galaxy more of things I want to write about them (THEIR NEW COLLECTION’S LOOKBOOK IS OMG—) but let’s reserve that for another post.
The French design duo Michael Amzalag and Mathis Augustyniak of M/M Paris have released “The Alphamen” typography (based on photos - by another super duo, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin - of supermodels, commisioned originally for the first issue of VMAN) as limited edition posters.
Whew. That’s the sound of at least 3 sentences that I didn’t bother to break. Anyway…
They were lovely then as typefaces and now made more fantastic being blown-up, artsy alphabet cards for grown-ups.
Of course, I’d personally get the T.
NY style hustlin’? Watch this video by Bianca Consunji on a man who earns $150 a day selling candy on the subway. [via NYMag]
“I don’t believe in dating—it’s so American. This is my advice to Americans: dating doesn’t work. I just heard that you can Google what you want and you go this special restaurant and then you can fast date 30/40 people so you don’t lose time. Again, I think this shows how we are polluted by the internet and technology. No, I go to Machu Picchu, meet an Inca god, and then we see.”
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REASON NUMBER 1 WHY ART BASEL MIAMI ROCKS THIS YEAR.
Hello!
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Photo by Paul Jatayna. Check out the mayhem that was the New Independents afterparty x Melvin Mojica birthday partay here.
Edit: Noose necklace by Paradigm Shift.
Gone for more than a month?
I’m busier than ever but I don’t care, I want to blog again.
Tumblr, I actually missed you.
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Thank you Ed for the photos.
LET’S JUST ADMIT THAT YOU ONLY BECAME A HIPSTER BECAUSE NO ONE INVITED YOU TO THE ‘COOL KID’ PARTIES IN HIGH SCHOOL. YOU MIGHT HAVE THE SEXIEST FIXED GEAR EVER OR THE SICKEST RECORD COLLECTION ON THE EAST COAST BUT YOU BECAME THIS ELITIST PRICK, THE EXACT SAME KIND OF ELITIST PRICK THAT DIDN’T INVITE YOU TO TARA NEWTON’S BIRTHDAY BASH, BECAUSE YOU WEREN’T ATHLETICALLY INCLINED OR VERY SEXY.
INSTEAD OF BECOMING THIS ALL-INCLUSIVE PUBLIC FIGURE WHO EMBRACES THE DISILLUSIONED YOU GET A HALF-SLEEVE AND A CAFE JOB AND TALK SHIT ON EVERYTHING IMAGINABLE LIKE YOU INVENTED IT, ESSENTIALLY BECOMING THE THING THAT MADE YOU, IN SOME SAD SORT OF OUROBORIC FEEDBACK LOOP, WHEN YOU SHOULD IN FACT BE THE MOST WELCOMING, TOLERANT PERSON ON EARTH, KNOWING THAT YOUR ENTIRE PERSONALITY IS BASED ON BEING EXCLUDED FROM THE THINGS YOU WANTED SO DESPERATELY TO BE A PART OF AS A TEENAGER.
DON’T GET ME WRONG, I LIKE YOUR BIKE, BUT GO FUCK YOURSELF.
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WORD PIG, WORD.
In his first new work since being released from government custody, chinese art star Ai Weiwei collaborates with W on a series of arresting images—from half a world away.
I’m so lazy to work today. When I woke up the first thing that entered my mind is to blog about the recent Paris Fashion Week RTW S/S 2012. Since I’ve been obsessing on everything 90’s right now, and I’m also using it as inspiration for my styling gig this coming Philippine Fashion Week,…
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I THINK THIS IS THE BEST PARIS F/W REVIEW EVER.
Check out TUXEDO MASK in Gareth Pugh. I died.
