Recent Articles in Fashion
Lana Mír to Release Debut, Perform at Fashion’s Night Out
The always lovely Lana Mír is set to release her self-titled full-length debut on August 24 on Unfiltered Records. With production by Andy Chase and Bruce Driscoll, the album is a cheery collection of breezy tunes with elements of bossa nova and sixties style French pop.
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend: Fashion Comes Out
“I’m trying to decide if I should be analytical about this or just experience it with my senses?” asked David. We were standing amid many half-naked bodies going through a fitting. You could see many eyes running around the room in circles like Apolo Ohno, Olympic worthy.
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend: Sixth Season Takes Place at Glasslands, Brooklyn on February 20th and 21st
Tired of the luxury-obsessed peacocks and peahens preening all around town during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, just wrapping up tonight? Craving an unabashedly edgy catwalk not afraid of letting loose with some true renegade spirit? Look no further…Williamsburg Fashion Weekend is here again, presenting its sixth season of fashion shows featuring designers “not afraid to [...]
In Praise of Costume, The Garment as Sculpture to Open at Et Derivé in Brooklyn
Fashion should never feel dated, as they say, so why not take the best of vintage fashion and re-contextualize it, while combining it with narrative, pop culture themes and works of contemporary art? …
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend: Accept No Substitutions Sept. 18th and 19th
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend shows its sinister head this weekend, September 18th and 19th 2009, a mere few work days beyond the NYC glitterati fashion world’s pompous presentations. WFW may seem like the deviant teens on the scene, but make no bones about it, this fashion event is in its sixth season and still going strong. [...]
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend @ Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY, 2.20.09 and 2.21.09
The shows took place at the beginning and the end of the world, on Kent Avenue in Brooklyn at Glasslands, a windowless venue that we found to be at fire code capacity early on Friday night. This event began in May 2007, with this particular installment organized by Arthur Arbit (also King Gurvy) and Tom [...]
Roisin Murphy at The National Arts Club, NYC, 02.19.2009
Fashion Week wouldn’t be complete without an appearance by Roisin Murphy, who is slowly but surely branding herself Stateside as a style icon-meets-nouveau diva.
Playboy’s Rock the Rabbit Shakes Tails Again in 2008
Hold onto your bunny ears! Playboy Enterprises Announces Rock The Rabbit 2008: A startlingly fabulous fusion of fashion, music and design, with graphics designed by Iggy Pop, Duran Duran, Daft Punk and more For the second year in a row, Playboy’s Rock the Rabbit initiative will bring us a unique foray into rock, hip-hop, art [...]
Diesel-U-Music Announces Semi-finalists for International Unsigned Band Contest
Love/heard of the Killers, We Are Scientists, Prefuse73 and Louis XIV? Well, then you might be interested to know that, other than supportive bloggers, Diesel-U-Music can be thanked for the above bands. Why? They’ve each won or or been a finalist at the Diesel:U:Music Awards, now in its fifth year. Split into three categories, the [...]
Kitsuné Maison 4 Compilation Hits the US in Late November 2007
Kitsune Maison isn’t just a Frenchie, preppy APCesque fashion house, but also a harbinger of taste in all things hip and stylish. In fact, besides the clothing label, they’ve assembled an art collective and released not one, but several music compilations and 12″s. And it’s not just a coincidence that their CDs would be the [...]
