Fashion
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Fashion / News Should The Islanders Get a Hipster Makeover Before Moving To Brooklyn?
Posted by Virginia K. Smith on Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:58 AM
As the lone L Magazine staffer who doesn't really understand or care about hockey, things can get a little lonely when talk turns to the Islanders. Like, "Oh, yeah, remember how nobody liked them, because hockey's a Canadian sport, and the stadium they play in sucks? Or is just sort of out of the way? Lol?" I have no fucking idea. But now. Now! Something is going on with this team that I find noteworthy.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Fashion / Sex Guessing What the Models in This New American Apparel Halloween Ad Are Supposed to be Dressed Up As
Posted by Lauren Beck on Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM
But maybe don't use the company's new ad campaign as inspiration. It's a little confusing. Notice that web ad pictured above? Seeing as the traditions of Halloween are sacred, we assume the models featured in it are dressed up as something, but we're not quite sure what. We have some guesses, though. Going from left to right...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
TV / Fashion Things I Learned From Watching Tavi Gevinson on Jimmy Fallon Last Night
Posted by Lauren Beck on Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:34 PM
In keeping with Late Night's hipster-friendly narrative, Jimmy Fallon hosted once-upon-a-time fashion blogger, current editor-actress-alt-pixie-high-schooler Tavi Gevinson last night, in town to promote Rookie Yearbook One, a compilation of pieces from her online magazine's first year. There was a lot to be learned from the little one.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Politics / Fashion Does Obama or Romney Have the Most Ironic T-Shirt at Urban Outfitters?
Posted by Josh Kurp on Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:50 AM
Now that it’s officially official that Mitt Romney will be the Republican candidate against Barack Obama in November, we can finally start talking about what matters—Urban Outfitters t-shirts. Never one to let something that could be ironic go by without becoming ironic, Urban Outfitters has stocked its on-line store with shirts featuring both Romney and Obama (and Ron Paul, but haha). But which one is more ironic?
Let’s take a look.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Fashion Photos: A Preview of Feltraiger's Lower East Side Flagship
Posted by Crystal Gwyn on Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:11 PM
On Tuesday night, the lights of 158 Allen Street were aglow with Sailor Jerry-covered creative types talking shop and trying on letterman jackets in a surprisingly minimalist, gallery style space. The occasion is a sneak peek of Feltraiger's flagship, the menswear line produced by Brooklyn-based brothers Daniel and Jon Feldman. The store, opening today, features items from their SS12 collection (including the woodland creature two peicer that we put on David Cross in Brooklyn Magazine) and handcrafted jewelry from another Brooklyn based designer, Bernard James.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Fashion An Open Letter to J. Crew: Please Stop Trying to Deceive Your Customers
Posted by Mike Conklin on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:50 AM
There's something I need to talk to you about. Something I saw on page 58 of your February 2012 catalog that I just can't get out of my head. But first, a potentially embarrassing bit of background info, lest you think I'm just some weirdo internet troll with ulterior motives rather than a loyal customer writing out of legitimate concern, or at least something resembling concern.
In my closet right now, there is what a lot of people would consider an absurd amount of clothing purchased from your company: 13 long-sleeve button-down shirts, 15 sweaters, one suit, two ties, two pairs of pants, and this really great thermal-lined hoodie you stopped selling years ago. This is to say nothing of the few pairs of shorts I've packed away for the winter, or the two short-sleeve button-downs I got on clearance last year, or the half-dozen or so madras—excuse me, Indian cotton—shirts I fell for starting back in the spring of 2010. I have a bunch of your socks, too. And I wore a pair of your shoes on my wedding day, back before you even starting selling all that "special occasion" stuff you sell now.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Music / Fashion Megastore of Lady Gaga Merch Takes Over an Entire Floor at Barneys
Posted by Marissa Gaines on Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM
It’s holiday shopping season and what better way to get into the giving buying spirit than with Lady Gaga-inspired tchotchkes? As if the pop superstar weren't already sufficiently ubiquitous, she has now taken over an entire floor of Barneys New York, all 5,500 square feet of it. The journey into Gaga’s Workshop begins outside Barneys’ doors (above) and continues throughout the ridiculous and exotic interior.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Fashion / News Halloween Costumes That Won't Work in Williamsburg
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:31 PM
Sometimes it’s hard to tell, isn’t it? [Alternate headline: Costumes That You Could Pull Off Very Easily.]
An actual Canadian lumberjack:
- (via)
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Fashion They Let Us Go to Fashion Week!
Posted by Mike Conklin on Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:50 AM
While most of us were sitting around writing about books and records and movies and other primarily solitary pursuits, a bunch of our photographers, as well as dedicated writer Brianna Affen, were out there taking part in the craziness of Fashion Week. We even convinced Sydney Brownstone to film the Williamsburg Fashion Weekend thing at 285 Kent on Friday, and this is a person whose Twitter bio reveals that her primary interest is "play[ing] folk instruments in a windowless room." Now that we've finally seen all their coverage in one place, jeez, we're actually really proud of it. Check it out here.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Music / Fashion I Guess You Should Watch This Video of Famous Fashion Models Singing That Jay-Z Song About New York
Posted by Lauren Beck on Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:39 PM
I have no idea why this exists, and I kinda wish it didn't, but I suppose you shouldn't second-guess Jay-Z. He apparently thought the world needed to see a who's who of supermodels lip-sync to "Empire State of Mind" in honor of Fashion Week, so he got a who's who of supermodels to lip-sync to "Empire State of Mind" and posted it on his website, Life + Times. The New York Observer took it a step further, creating a rolodex of nearly every model that appears in the clip and some of the recent campaigns you might recognize them from. I just clicked through all 22 slides and now feel great about my thighs. You try!
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Fashion Our Man Theophilus's SHOE Comes Out Today
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:19 PM
In the meantime, he'll be releasing his very own shoe tonight (7pm, 128 Prince St.), in Soho, at the Cole Haan store, called the Theophilus Blue Suede Buck (which comes with a Theophilus 10", a cover of Nat King Cole's "Calypso Blues"). T.L. will also be DJ'ing! So that should be fun. SHOES!
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Fashion NYU Rap About Collegiate Hipsters Was Filmed in DUMBO!
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:29 AM
This viral video (embedded below) having something to do with "the NYU Reality Show" and this Kickstarter project for a short film about root beer purports to pertain to the prevalence of hipsters on college campuses, but was filmed here in DUMBO where there is not a single college campus.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Art / Fashion More Extra Hours for Met's McQueen Mega-Blockbuster
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:01 PM
In what may be a scheme to boost its numbers past Jeff Koons on the Roof to all-time attendance record-setting status, the Metropolitan Museum's retrospective of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty, has had its hours extended again—previously the closing date was pushed back one week to August 7, and Monday hours were added for a steep fee—during the show's final two or so weeks.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Art / Fashion Could Alexander McQueen Beat Jeff Koons' Met Attendance Record?
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:28 PM
Since it opened nearly two months ago on May 4, the Metropolitan Museum's retrospective of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty, has attracted over 350,000 visitors, surpassing the scores who shuffled into a hugely popular 2005 exhibition of Van Gogh drawings, but putting the blockbuster fashion exhibition not quite on pace to beat Jeff Koons' 2008 rooftop sculpture show—at least not in terms of total attendance numbers.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Fashion Gross New Tumblr Beards From Below Inexplicably Not Dominated by Brooklynites
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:11 PM
BeardsFromBelow.org, the non-profit branch of the presumably bankruptcy-destined for-profit enterprise BeardsFromBelow.com, is not nearly so Brooklyn-dominated as you would expect a site of user-submitted photographs of shaggy facial hair shot from a low angle to be. That said, I'm fairly certain I found a photo of Brooklyn resident and L Mag editor-in-chief Jonny Diamond's beard on there—whoever figures out which one might be Mr. Diamond gets a free beard. (TheDailyWhat)
Monday, March 28, 2011
Fashion / News Brooklyn Flea's Williamsburg Waterfront Expansion Opens Sunday
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:45 AM
We first heard about it last December, and now it's time for the Brooklyn Flea to step out for the spring and summer: Sunday (not Saturday, as reported in the Brooklyn Paper) will mark the weekend shopping destination's debut on the Williamsburg waterfront. The Flea will take up the waterfront lot along the East River between North 6th and North 7th Streets every Saturday from April 3 through November 20.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Film / Fashion Bill Cunningham New York, Now at Film Forum, Features High Society and High Heels
Posted by Tom Sullivan on Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:32 PM
It’s impossible not to notice the film’s gaping lack of tension and conflict, largely consisting as it does of surveillance-esque footage of Cunningham doing his thing: shooting photos of Manhattan’s finest sidewalk fashionistas like a bubbly papparazo. But the spectacle of Cunningham doing everything from run into traffic to hiding behind flowerpots to get that perfect shot is sufficiently fascinating to behold.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Fashion Designer Mina Stone Cooks Up a Versatile Fall/Winter Collection
Posted by Briana Affen on Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Fashion designer and part-time chef Mina Stone might be perfect. She uses only natural fabrics for her collection, and she even finds a way to incorporate her cooking into her clothing: the silk pieces are dyed with lentils and rice, which give the pieces texture and depth while retaining their natural beauty. Mina is humble but hopeful, sweet but genuine—and ridiculously talented.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Special Events / Fashion The Brooklyn Industries Sample Sale Starts Today
Posted by Lauren Beck on Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:38 AM
Friday, February 18, 2011
Fashion Fashion Week: Coco & Breezy Invest in the Future, Design for Kids
Posted by Briana Affen on Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:32 PM
