June 2010
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MMM20 at Somerset House
Just got back from the Maison Martin Margiela retrospective at Somerset House here in London, and let me tell you, dear Met and Cooper-Hewitt, your stuffy, poorly-lit, under-curated, half-assed back-corner fashion exhibitions are put sorely to shame. Granted Margiela probably just lends itself exceptionally well to HELLA LEGIT and creative exhibition, but the videos and lighting and organization...
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hookup culture, lady gaga, and bad faith
NYT - The Opinionator | Lady Power - Nancy Bauer
OK guys, so yesterday I was talking with my friend Milo about how he’s writing a thesis on Lady Gaga and Hegel and like the accents his cat has when it’s stoned or something, and then this morning my NYT iphone app delivers this little gem linked above to me before I’d even finished my coffee, and I mean, for fuck’s sake. I...
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effi briest, zola jesus, golden triangle
Effi Briest - Rhizomes. (stick with it until at least 1:15 plz)
It’s been like a solid eight months since I raised a polite middle finger to the music industry and decided that I’d rather cut off my left arm than email another music blogger an MP3 and beg them to post, but I think my bitterness is sort of wearing off because I was more excited about all the kickass chick bands I...
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Eline just posted this and I had to steal it since that “romanticizing weird old shit” fetish problem thing I have apparently isn’t just limited to New York — posters from a sealed-up-since-1959 metro tunnel in London (where I’ll be in a week! tell me all your secrets of amazing places to go/things to do there that I might not know about yet!) More pictures after...
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And then sometimes I have no other commentary other than “THIS IS TOTALLY AWESOME AND SIMPLE AND AMAZING AND I LOVE HELMUT LANG AND I WOULD WEAR THIS EVERY DAY IF I COULD EVEN THOUGH I HATE TIE-DYE THINGS AND THOSE ANNE D BOOTS HAVE STOLEN MY HEART.” [from Russh 33 ]
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Test Mag (more photos and full ed at that link) continuing to produce a lot of awesome and apparently having infinite access to the best effing locations ever while making me desperate for 90’s angsty teenager hair and crayon-thick eyebrows. Damnit.
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teddy girls
I know it’s cliche, but I can never get enough of perfectly-styled menswear-for-women and sassy, slightly-retro heavy-handed oh-look-how-androgynous-we-are-even-though-we’re-still-super-schmexy-girlie-girls… I mean I know I should be having a critical queer field day or at least a hearty eyeroll over this crap, but COME ON. I’m just still admiring the anachronistic...
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meghan collison - metal magazine #20
Could Meghan Collison get any more awesome? Didn’t think so. Photos by San Sierra for Metal Magazine. Also kind of loved how all the recognizable/obvious pieces in this ed (the Rad Hourani pants, Miu Miu shoes, Givenchy wedges, Rodarte dress) managed to not look so tired here. [via FGR]
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HATING SEX AND THE CITY AND IMPLICIT PREJUDICE...
We’re just going to start this out with blatantly saying that I loathe anything Sex and the City related with the passion of a thousand burning suns, and the defense that’s been making the blog rounds lately — Jackie Ashley’s review at the Guardian — still falls short for me. But while it does little to control my irrepressible sneer at any mention of the franchise,...