Fashion
Friday, February 18, 2011
Fashion Fashion Week: Leila Shams Goes Glam-Goth for Fall
Posted by Briana Affen on Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:53 PM
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Fashion Fashion Week: Behind the Scenes at the twentyten Fall + Winter 2011 Collection
Posted by Briana Affen on Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM
Friday, January 14, 2011
Music / Fashion 5 Rappers Wearing Jewel-Encrusted Portraits of Themselves
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Fashion Fancy English Lady Alexa Chung Goes to Williamsburg (Claims It As Her "Lover")
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Sometimes living in Brooklyn reminds me of living in Canada. We get just a little too excited when some perceived "mainstream" media source pays attention to us. Hence my excitement at watching this Style.com video of Alexa Chung willowing through Williamsburg. Yeah, sad, I know.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
Fashion L TV: At the Housing Works Fashion for Action Party
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:06 PM
Housing Works rules. They may just be our favorite charity in the city (c'mon, you can buy supercheap books, clothes, furniture, all for a good cause: fighting AIDS and homelessness). So, every year they have a big ol' fashion bazaar bonanza in which over a million bucks worth of stuff goes on sale for 50-70 percent off. It's all about the deals, people. We sent videographer extraordinaire Emmanuel Cruz to check it out.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Fashion / News Are We Not Men? (Far Too Many Thoughts on The Art of Shaving's Current Subway Ads)
Posted by Mark Asch on Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:29 PM
-"The Merchant," Nick Paumgarten's profile of J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler, The New Yorker, 9/20/10
We've always looked to advertising for instructions in how to play the part of the person we want to be. This is especially true for something like shaving products: laden as they are with all sorts of father-son baggage, and walking a tricky line between man's-manliness and ladies'-manliness, their advertisements have ever tried to appeal to our sense of what, exactly, "manliness" is. And that seems to be changing, as it does every so often.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Fashion Read the Keynote Speech from the Annual 1111 Grand Meeting of The Corduroy Appreciation Club
Posted by Mark Asch on Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:03 PM
The keynote speech was delivered by public radio's Jesse Thorn, also of Put This On ("a web series about dressing like a grown-up"). In it, he discussed the pleasures of the world's greatest fabric ("As you slip your arm into the sleeve of a tattered old blazer, are you calmed? Ready to get on with the work of the mind?" Yes! Yes!), and the menace of velvet:
An artisinal butcher in Williamsburg opens his own shop. He’s doing well, selling salt-cured bacon and filet of avocado. Then one night, surfing Etsy, he spots a pair of gloves. “Those look nice,” he thinks, “and soft, as well.” He imagines how much more comfortable he’ll be without his metal gloves. When they arrive, he is comfortable. For months, he’s happy. Until one day he slips into a moment of reverie while chopping sun-dried tomatoes for an asiago sausage. No one wants to buy meat from a butcher with seven fingers.
The full speech is here.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Fashion Vintage Pick of the Week: Ferragamo Loafers
Posted by Briana Affen on Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:33 PM
And yes, these are actually men's shoes. Considering the menswear-on-women trend that's been going on for the past two or three years and doesn't seem to be ending any time soon, I have no shame in going straight to the source. As a rule, the difference is about two sizes. So if you're about a size 9 in women's shoes, you need a 7 in men's. I'm wearing these with high-waisted jeans, a DIY crop top (which I'll give a no-fail how-to on next week) and a men's cardigan—but I feel mighty feminine nonetheless.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Fashion Vintage Clothing Pick of the Week: Technicolor Parka!
Posted by Briana Affen on Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:49 PM
At first glance, this amazing Technicolor Russian-style parka seems like one of those gorgeous yet impossible pieces that only work on supermodels and other ultra-glamorous types. But with careful styling, this coat can be as wearable as a common navy pea coat (well, maybe not quite that wearable, but close). Director of Web Sales Jade Furtado wears it with a vintage black gown—to translate, wear this number with a dark, fuss-free maxi dress (perhaps navy, forest green, or plum if you think black is too obvious) and worn-in oxfords or lace-up boots. If you prefer to dress it down even more, opt for skinny cargos and a lace blouse. Et voila. You’re saved from yet another winter of wearing the same coat everyone else is wearing from H&M.
Vintage coat and other similar styles available at Screaming Mimi’s, 382 Lafayette St.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Fashion L TV: Coco and Breezy: The Coolest Twins in Brooklyn
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:26 PM
Hey, it's this week's Fashionable Bystander(s), designers Coco and Breezy! Space twins from Minnesota! They are rad! You must watch this!
Friday, October 22, 2010
Fashion L TV: Fashion and Art Pop Up on the LES
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM
We sent videographer extraordinaire Emmanuel Cruz to the LES last weekend to check out Jen Bailey's Fashion/Art/Design Weekend Pop-Up Gallery/Market extravaganza (f.a.d. weekend). Here's what he found:
Friday, October 8, 2010
Fashion Save Cardboard and Your Cranium with New Recyclable Paper Bike Helmet
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:33 PM
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Art / Fashion Panda-Costumed T-Shirt Designers Flashmob Rob Pruitt Exhibition
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:23 PM
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Fashion The Teddy Bear Sneakers Will Haunt Your Dreams, Closets
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:05 PM
- "Kill... us... please kill us!"
Put your Chucks away, cool kids, there's a new must-have sneaker in town: the Adidas Teddy Bears (in brown and pink, pictured), which look like they wandered out of some dark, godforsaken corner of our collective pool of childhood nightmares, will be available in spring. Thanks, Jeremy Scott, for undoing decades of therapy without even getting your terrifying footwear dirty. (Fubiz)
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Fashion L TV: Deluka Does Not Wear Shorts
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:11 PM
We took some photos of British rockers Deluka (more than just Fashionable Bystanders, really) and asked them some questions about fashion. And, AND, we filmed the whole thing...
Shot by videographer Lou Gruber.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Fashion L TV: In Which Leonora Russo, Queen of Williamsburg, Gets a Little Blue
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:43 AM
We took some great snapshots of Leonora Russo, Bedford Avenue stalwart and Queen of Williamsburg, but we also took some video. Behold the Queen, in all her glory.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Fashion L TV: At the Brooklyn Migrants Photo Shoot
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:29 AM
If there's one thing we can learn from Jacob Riis' groundbreaking work of social justice-through-documentation, How the Other Half Lives, it's the value of a good stylist (kidding). Our crack staff photographer Crystal Gwyn was, in fact, inspired by Riis' look at 19th-century immigrants and turned her eye to the migrant youth of North Brooklyn for her photo shoot, The Brooklyn Migrants. And now you get to go behind the scenes:
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Fashion New Tumblr Bad Yearbook Photos Is Soooo Good
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:36 PM
Common fashion faux pas on Bad Yearbook Photos: mullets, gross facial hair, huge perms, inappropriate t-shirts, awkward poses, dumb facial expressions, incongruous backdrops, and bad accessories. Also, excessive shirtlessness. Less common: eye patches. Submit yours today! (TheDailyWhat)
Monday, August 2, 2010
Fashion L TV: Rebecca, Part Fashion Designer, Part Cat
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:36 PM
Hey, it's another L TV episode of The Fashionable Bystander, starring Rebecca the Designer. Yay! (Also, dream catchers, srsly?)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Film / Fashion So Here's an Italian Fashion Ad Directed by Kenneth Anger
Posted by Mark Asch on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:47 PM
This is like that, except it's an ad for the Italian fashion house Missoni, and features the several generations of the eponymous owner-operator family. Watch, and ponder the easily commercialized aesthetic appeal of semi-abstract art; the artistry of commercials; and Anger's always swanky, opportunistic style (I mean that as a compliment). [Via]
