First of all, we have never seen the 1993 film The Crush (starring Alicia Silverstone) but when we heard that Julia Restoin Roitfeld was starring in a remake of it in short-fashion-film-form, we thought we’d love it. The girl is amazing, how could we not love anything she’s a part of? Or so we thought. Created for issue...
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A French street artist known as Zevs, thought he was creating art by dissolving iconic logos, but little did he know that by dissolving a Chanel double-C logo on a Giorgio Armani building in Hong Kong could see him in court. The facade had to be replaced for HK$6.7 million (approx USD$860,000) and faces claims that he vandalized...
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A 46-year-old German man had amassed a collection of over 1,000 pairs of underpants and 100+ swimming trunks. His collection was discovered by German police when he was caight trying to steal 3 more pairs for his collection. “They were all evidently in use, but had been washed and neatly stacked away,” a police spokesman...
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Just when we got use to the idea of a toilet paper wedding dress contest, another fashion design competition with a twist has just announced its winning designs. In its ninth year, the 2009 Duck Tape ‘Stuck at Prom’ contest has me questioning the lengths people will go to win a contest after the winners photos were...
read more“Vogue Australia has been saving people from looking ugly for 50 years” - Damien Woolnough, editor of Vogue.com.au – Australia’s answer to Vogue.co.uk/Style.com. Where was this gem of a quote said? At the Optus “hAPPlication” event just last week. You see, Optus, an Australian telecommunications...
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Marie Claire Australia were kind enough to do a write up about us in their August 2009 issue (featuring the gorgeous Cameron Diaz on the cover) but there are a few little things I’d like to clear up (as I wait to hear if there is anything they can do on their side). I was quoted as saying: “When I started my blog in...
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Aside from the absolutely insane/horrifying Rihanna & Chris Brown scandal, let’s face it: the 51st annual Grammy awards ceremony was kind of a snooze. Luckily, where the performances, presenters, and overall sense of occasion lagged, adventurous pop stars kept things, well, interesting to say the least. We count down 3...
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Lady GaGa continues to honorably defend her title as the most popular gimmick of 2009. She may be topping the music charts these days, but she’s clever enough to use her proudly style-over-substance philosophy to her advantage while she can — rest assured that not a single of her fifteen minutes will be left...
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Barely five days into the new year, we’ve already received a premature reminder of the embarrassingly inevitable: in 2009, a new crop of opportunists will make hilariously ill-advised forays into the realm of “celebrity fashion design”, a phenomena that by now serves as its own punchline. The culprits this...
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As 2008 draws to its miserly close, another young designer joins the multitude of recent fashion fatalities: Russian teen “designer” Kira Plastinina is calling it quits in the US, after eleven of her twelve boutiques have failed to warrant their existence. Now, we aren’t into schadenfreude, but — unlike...
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