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Posted Jan. 6, 2010,
Cute and Vegan!
By Kim Hastreiter
Aren't these the CUTEST shoes? I just got these photos sent to me from Robert Clergerie. They are reissuing these shoes which were originally sold in 1990. They're made in Morocco, and are not only cruelty free but they are fabulous, eh?Posted Dec. 10, 2009,
Eight Items or Less: Glen Matlock, Eltono & The Breslin
By Gary Pini
1. Glen Matlock just appeared at the W hotel down in South Beach last week and we hear he's going to do a special acoustic set of Sex Pistols songs around midnight Friday, December 11, at NUBLU (62 Avenue C between 4th and 5th Streets).
2. The Guardian lists fashion's 25 most influential people.
3. The Morrison Hotel Gallery (313 Bowery) is hosting an exhibit of photos by Emmett Malloy with a screening of his film "Jack Johnson En Concert" on December 16, doors open at 7 p.m. Neil Halstead (Slowdrive, Mojave 3) will also be performing at 9 p.m.
4. Artist Eltono has been busy down in South America working on several public art projects in Peru and he files this report on a big wall painting executed in Sao Paulo. Check it out.
5. Tools of the Trade released a cool 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring "Mandala Grin" by Ron English. (via Format)
6. An exhibit of works by native Alaskan artists called Dry Ice opens at 6:30 p.m. tonight, December 10, at Alaska House (109 Mercer Street).
7. If you're not sure what exactly is included in a "full English breakfast," stop by The Breslin (1186 Broadway) for one of the best authentic versions available in NYC. (Photo via New York Magazine)
Posted Jun. 18, 2009,
Cynthia Rowley Resort Collection at Salon 94 Freeman's
By Mickey Boardman
Super fun Cynthia Rowley recently showed her resort collection at Salon 94 Freeman's. The models posed in front of paintings by PAPER favorite Marilyn Minter. Two great tastes that taste great together!
Posted Jun. 17, 2009,
Brava Isabel Toledo!
By Kim Hastreiter
Last night's Isabel Toledo show opening was mind bending. I have known my old friends the Toledos (Ruben and Isabel) for the past 25 years and I always knew they were amazing and brilliant, but last night's Isabel Toledo retrospective show at FIT, "Fashion From the Inside Out", completely blew it out of the water. I walked into that cavernous below-streetlevel room on 27th Street at Seventh Avenue and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. This was extraordinary. Don't miss this.
Between the survey of Isabel's amazing work combined with the 500 feet of her husband Ruben's drawings to compliment it all... the package was breathtaking. I'm so grateful to Isabel and Ruben for their inspiration and curator Valerie Steele for creating such a beautiful, emotional, imaginative, innovative exhibit -- from Toledo's origami patterns, to those amazing silk dresses tied tightly around broomsticks and dyed (see above), to her genius matte jersey drapings to the magical seaming and details.
This is what fashion is. This is what design is. This is what art is. This is what craft is. This is what imagination and passion and dedication can achieve. Brava!
Posted Jan. 29, 2009,
Chanel Couture Sets My Heart Aflutter
By Carol Lee
One of my "a girl can dream, can't she?" dreams is to one day be able to dress in head-to-toe Chanel couture. To where? I have no idea but I'm sure I'll figure it out once I get there. Perusing the new spring '09 Chanel couture collection just ignited this fantasy in me. It's not even necessarily M. Lagerfeld's best couture show but the feather-light, cream-dreamy and simple silhouettes only in white or black, paired with the most elegant and gorgeous flower bouquet head pieces put me over the moon.
Posted Aug. 1, 2008,
China's Fashion Police Protect Olympics
By David Hershkovits
While China seems to have loosened restrictions on Internet access to the media during the Beijing Olympics, the fashion police are still out in full force. In order to put its best fashion face forward, "Beijing officials have distributed 4.3 million copies of an etiquette book outlining rules on good manners and foreign customs, including rules about what not to wear." The guide is part of an effort by various departments within China's government to clean the city up in preparation for the at least 400,000 foreign visitors who are expected to descend on its capital for the Olympic Games, which start Aug. 8 (WSJ).
In an effort to make Beijing more civilized, the pamphlet lists a number of no-no's: more than three color shades in an outfit, white socks with black shoes, and pajamas and slippers in public.
"No matter what, never wear too many colors...especially during formal occasions," the book said. "When you wear [formal shoes], be sure to wear socks in good condition...socks should be a dark color -- never match black leather shoes with white socks."
"Older women should choose shoes with heels that aren't too high."
One can imagine protesters dressed like the gentleman shown here being dragged off to jail for violating the no pajamas and flip flop edict. What would Mr. Mickey say!?
Posted Apr. 1, 2008,
Levi Okunov's Torah-Inspired Fashion Show Shakes Things Up at the Jewish Museum
By Gregory Christie
Orthodox Jews, renegade Hasidim, fashionistas and art aficionados converged on New York’s Jewish Museum last Thursday night for the unveiling of wily and prodigious designer Levi Okunov’s new, museum-inspired collection. The show represented the climax to the institution’s two-week “Off the Wall” series, a program of young, Jewish artists working in a variety of media.
The show began, much like the Torah, in stark darkness. Suddenly, the runway was illuminated by Melissa Shiff’s “JAMS: The Jewish Animated Mandala Series.” The crowd was confronted with a series of ritual objects bursting into a spectrum of fractal patterns, accompanied by spacey, ambient music. Minutes later, figure skater Oksana Baiul appeared on the runway draped in vertical stripes reminiscent of the black and white pattern favored by some sects of Hasidim. After prowling the runway, she squealed as if just completing a triple-axle and then skipped back towards the curtain.
Posted Feb. 14, 2008,
Afternoon Style in an L.A. Supermarket
By Kim Hastreiter
Look what my friend Jeff Snyder just emailed me! He saw this woman dressed to the nines yesterday afternoon perusing the cheese section at Gelson's Market on Franklin and Bronson. He followed her, snapping photos with his cellphone. Good look for the supermarket, no???? God, I love L.A. for its fashion inspiration....
Posted Feb. 1, 2008,
Fashionably Dead: Blood And Black Lace!
By Dennis Dermody
In honor of Fashion Week I put up the trailer for Mario Bava's great 1964 film Blood and Black Lace (aka Sei Donne Per L'assassino), which is about a series of mysterious murders set around a top fashion house. There is glamour, high fashion, drugs, mannequins, murderers wearing cool black leather gloves and plenty of models getting murdered. What more could a person possibly ask for?
Posted Oct. 4, 2007,
Edie Sedgwick, Santa Barbara Girl
By Ann Magnuson
Of course, perhaps the most famous Santa Barbara native-turned-bohemian was the legendary Edie Sedgwick. Poor Edie. Gorgeous. Privileged. Photogenic. Doomed. But you gotta love her comments about the fashion world in the clip above. Naked as a lima bean? Yup. Speedballs kill. Below is a trailer for Ciao Manhattan, a real classic. Whoa. Drugs. Don't do 'em kids. At least she got to return to Santa Barbara and found some real love in the end.
Posted Sep. 26, 2007,
The Bunny Report: My Glasses, Myself
By Jordan Kinney
Hay y’all! After an extended post New York Fashion Week vaycay, I’ve returned to the charming village of Manhattan for the usual aimless fashion forward fraternizing. Howev, since the point of my reentrance, tragedy has already ensued in the form of my foot, mid dance-move, rhythmically stepping on my now permanently damaged glasses. Nerdy! I brought them to the eye doctor to see if surgery could save them. Outlook cloudy. (Oh, and I’ll have all naysayers know, though I am ever the proponent of functionless personal ornamentation, my eyewear has always served as a completely necessary fashion statement due to my retardedly bad old lady vision.)
Posted Sep. 14, 2007,
Bethann Hardison Brings It: Talking About a Revolution
By Rebecca Carroll
There's very little that pleases me more than a room full of beautiful black people.
Especially when the room includes André Leon Talley, Naomi Campbell (who could not have been more delightful, by the way), Liya Kebede, Tyson Beckford, Constance White, Iman (could she possibly be more beautiful?) and the legendary Bethann Hardison, who both organized and hosted the event -- a town hall type gathering held at the screening room at the Bryant Park Hotel to address the lack of black models in the fashion industry.
There were other people of color and white folks in attendance, too, but it was mostly gorgeous brown-skinned faces, many of whom I recognized from various projects and points in my career: former model and author Barbara Summers, who spoke vividly at the meeting, was an interview subject in my first book, I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like; the exceptionally dope-ass fashion stylist Michaela Angela Davis, with whom I sat on a panel at the Smithsonian some years back, was there kicking it on point; and my dear friend, the brilliant documentary producer, Selina Lewis Davidson, was there filming the event for a doc-in-progress she's working on with Bethann.
Posted Sep. 5, 2007,
PAPER TV: Kim Hastreiter Walks Us Through PAPER's September Fashion Issue
By Alexis Swerdloff
PAPER editor & publisher Kim Hastreiter, who oversaw this month's "Arty Party" fashion issue, gives a video tour of the magazine. The bright yellow issue (you can't miss it), on stands now, includes an Isabella Blow tribute, fashion experts Sally Singer, Ruben Toledo, Harold Koda and Simon Doonan musing on our favorite fashion extremists and a feature in which Kim asked artists from Oakland's Creative Growth program to illustrate the fall collections. Welcome to the Arty Party!
Posted Aug. 30, 2007,
Chloe's Collection for Opening Ceremony
By Kim Hastreiter
Yesterday I was invited to Opening Ceremony to check out the new Chloë Sevigny collection which I am curious to see. She is actually doing the collection in collaboration with the great store. The logo is really cute (see above) and I think this could be really good, considering Chloë's great sense of style. I'll let you know after I see it on September 10th!
Posted Aug. 28, 2007,
The Bunny Report: Wide-legged Pants "TOTALLY Retarded My Speedwalk."
By Jordan Kinney
I tried to be all progressive with these wide-legged pants but I pretty much stopped caring after all that extra fabric kept like, flapping in the wind -- they TOTALLY retarded my speedwalk. I expected the typical public reactions to what I normally wear (outrage, denial, hurt) and yet the delinquent youths on my street were noticeably more hesitant with their multilingual verbal abuse. Whatev, I don’t care what my hateful neighbors say (or don’t say), it was way hard to maintain my dramatic runway pace in these giganto trousers and for that reason I now contractually oblige myself to exclusively adorn pants that fit like spandex leggings -- or sans pants I shall stroll! But I digress. I thought this entire outfit was pretty nice until I realized this other dude wore something strikingly similar (down to the crown-perched hat!) in a certain music video I’d recently encountered during an accidental viewing of TRL (What? I couldn’t find the remote!)...
Posted Aug. 24, 2007,
Sexclowns!
By Kim Hastreiter
I got an email this morning from my old friend, Belgian designer Walter Von Beirendonck, whom I have not heard from in ages. He sent me some pix from his last collection which he aptly called his "Sexclown" collection. Walter's brightly-colored, pop, cartoon work has always been slightly off-trend in his home town of Antwerp, the capital of deconstructive fashion, (his aesthetic is more like Castelbajac than Martin Margiela), but he's stuck to his guns and his work has developed a true following. Pictured above are a couple of funny looks from his last Sexclown show.
Posted Aug. 16, 2007,
Koi Swimwear: To Swim or Not to Swim?
By Sacha Phillip
Prompted, while prepping for a trip to L.A., by the glut of too-plain, too-tacky or too-expensive swimsuits in stores, Toronto-based designer Jennifer Bharti gave herself a mission: to design swimwear that was equal parts glam, comfortable and affordable. The result is her label, Koi Swimwear.
Just as its name is inspired by a variety of sources -- in fact, it’s a tribute to both the water-friendly nature of the collection, and Bharti’s Chinese heritage -- Koi pieces are meant to be worn in a variety of ways. Designed to look fabulous, whether you’re lounging poolside or schmoozing at a cocktail party, Koi’s bikinis, maillots and cover-ups layer luxuriously. For example: a plunging one-piece takes on sophisticated street style, when paired with trouser-cut denim pants.
Since our days as undergrads at the University of Western Ontario, Bharti has been known for adeptly combining chic, sexy and sporty in her wardrobe. She has translated this sartorial sensibility into Koi, creating more-than-just-swimwear swimwear. We recently caught up with Bharti to discuss bathing attire and style.
Posted Jul. 31, 2007,
Eat My Pucci
By Shanon Kelley
I'm not a fashion maven by any means, but some things do tickle my fancy every now and then that I must share with the world. Case in point: Darkhorse. It took me quite a while to track down this designer from Toronto.
It all started when I was reading an LA blog and happened to notice a girl in a photo wearing what quickly became my obsession -- a t-shirt reading "Eat My Pucci." I decided that I had to have it. After a month (I kid you not) of scouring the Internet I finally found it, met the man behind the shirt and got myself one. Phew!
And that's my story. Check out his website for more amazing clothes.
Posted Jul. 30, 2007,
Hillary's Cleavage Wars
By David Hershkovits
Politics, fashion and the media don't often interface, but when they do I don't want to miss an opportunity to comment, especially when it involves the state of Hillary Clinton's cleavage. When is a little too much?
A slow news day found Robin Givhan, the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize winning fashion reporter, watching C-Span. (Guess that's what Washington reporters do on a slow news day!) What she saw was Hillary expounding on the burdensome cost of higher education. But what caught her eye was something altogether different.
She was wearing a rose-colored blazer over a black top. The neckline sat low on her chest and had a subtle V-shape. The cleavage registered after only a quick glance. No scrunch-faced scrutiny was necessary. There wasn't an unseemly amount of cleavage showing, but there it was. Undeniable.
Posted Jul. 26, 2007,
The Bunny Report: "I Call This Look Chessmaster-Chic"
By Jordan Kinney
From now on, everyday that intern Jordan Kinney, aka “Bunny,” comes into the office, he’ll be walking us through his look. Here’s his first installment.
Mmm, the personal joys of social disapproval! As I sauntered uptown to the PAPER offices this morning, I collected my daily affirmations from various city dwellers (garbage men, urban youth collectives, hungover shame-walkers, etc.) ranging from the always friendly cries of “Freak!” to the mildly confused heckles of “Urkel!” With such reception, I knew today’s self-styling was yet again a success!
I call this look “chessmaster-chic” -- a monochramtic ode to Jeremy Scott (or at least the T-shirt prints of the eighties that he appropriates) and uh… timeless recreational gaming or whatever. The shirt is actually a dress, I think, but who really cares -- good fashion knows no gender! Judging from the increased assignments of freakdom by the general public today, I’d say it’s a real crowd pleaser!
I have four pairs of these white H&M jeans because I hate doing laundry (and by doing laundry I mean bringing it to the laundry service where other people do it for me) and I tend to spill various condiments on myself throughout any given day (today’s include ketchup and egg yolk, grossss).