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Trust the internet to take something beautiful and turn it into something slightly uncomfortable.
Take this young woman, for instance. She seems like she’s having a good time. She’s smiling, after all. Sure, her legs are crossed, but she doesn’t seem in distress. Certainly not like she’s looking for a bathroom or anything…
Unfortunately, after Hipsters Have to Pee, everything is suspect.
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Boxing Helena: Helena Christensen has not lost the knack. [Refinery29]
Dirty Linens: Jack Spade puts forth the first linen tote back. [Selectism]
The Saga Continues: The hipster grafter tale becomes more elaborate and uncomfortable. [New York Observer]
It’s About the Music: When hippies get their hands on classical music, incredible things can happen. [NYMag]
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The world of hipsters runs on an intricate, almost Victorian code, so it was only a matter of time before someone pulled a Barry Lyndon. And, somewhat predictably, that person was an Asian girl who pretended to work for Vice.
Ah, Brooklyn…
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No sooner do we complement Kanye’s taste in denim than we hear his Yeeziness is planning a denim line of his very own.
It’ll be hard to top RRL, and the hipster/street divide is as difficult to bridge in fashion as it is in music. Then again, if anyone can bring the two camps together—possibly by sporting the perfect level of bagginess displayed in the picture at left—it’s Kanye. As legacies go, it wouldn’t be a bad one.
Let’s just hope it keeps him off the vocoder.
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Mining subcultures is a tricky business, and nobody knows it better than Converse. They were already known as a hipster brand…and a whimsical web video full of Williamsburg landmarks probably isn’t helping anything.
Part-Time Model: The occasionally exhibitionist heiress (no, the other one) strips down for Myla. [NYDN]
Hipsters will destroy us all: But not in a cool Mothra kind of way. [PSFK]
Rum in Exile: Forbidden rum is always the sweetest. [The Bachelor Guy]
Receding Clothing Line: Jude Law models for dunhill. Baldness jokes ensue.[Brandish]
It’s the Shades: Kanye makes the cut for Vanity Fair’s best dressed list. Once again, his MacBook Air is in danger. [Kanye’s Blog]
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Belly Up to the Bar: Thank ??? someone out there is poking around Russian Elle for Bar Refaeli shots. [Goldenfiddle]
Casual Friday: We’re a little surprised that this internal memo from Interview on office dress code was even necessary. We could guess that this has something to do with the magazine’s new Capo di tutti capi, Glenn
O’Brien—but then again, the guy doesn’t always hew to the rule himself. [Gawker]
Spice on Set:
fashion designer Victoria Beckham teams up with failing movie mogul Tom Cruise for what will almost certainly be Ben Stiller’s ugliest film since “Meet the Fockers”. [FemaleFirst
UK]
Bowery Boy: Does John Varvatos even have time to design anymore with all these CBGBs questions? [NYTimes]
Cheap Shots: The best suits under $500 photographed by Scott “The Sartorialist” Schuman. [Men.Style]
Word Games: Watch as three out of four panelists stuff their feet straight into their mouths while attempting to define “Hipster.” [PSFK]
Shwing!: Tom Ford wants you to appreciate the human dingle as much as he does. [NYMag]
Freak Folk: Always on the hunt for a
Portman is reportedly nuzzling up to Cripple Crow crooner Devandra
Banhart. Yeah, we don’t know how we feel about this one either. We
mean, he is wearing a woman’s jacket. [
Napoleon Complex: Lil’, wee plutocrat Nic Sarkozy is
kicking up a press dust storm in his fierce heels. [
What Would Moz Do?: Dress like Morrissey and you’re
set for life. [Style
Salvage]
Spit and Polish: The geopolitics of the shoeshine.
[NYT via On
The Fly]
Throwing Sparks: Sharp dockside looks from Philip
Sparks. [Philipsparks
via Notcouture]
Blinded by the White: N.B. to African-American
society partygoers – some photogs may require you use nametags. [
Environmental Hang Up: Going green starts at your dry
cleaner. [Fox23]
Out of Africa: A brief history of the safari jacket.
[Mercury
News]
New Journalism: The Wall Street Journal is
set to launch a new luxury magazine to compete with the
Times’ glossy insert, T. Yes, yes – you’re right -
they’re calling it WSJ. [
and Publisher]
Luxury Hacks: Next time you’re in Moscow, flag down a
Maybach. [Autopark]
Home, Jeeves: In other auto news, The
Chauffeur magazine has named its “Car of the Year.” The
Chauffeur magazine? We should really get our guy a subscription
for his birthday. [
Space Case: Once, we were grown men who watched
football and Westerns. Then, Sci-Fi fox Tricia Helfer snared us her
leggyness.[OhNoTheyDidn't]
Shields Up: In related news, Spock goes down hard.
[The
Observer]
Picking Numbers: Cathy Horyn starts off her morning
congratulating
friends at 6267 on their
designers at Gianfranco Ferre, has a glass of red wine before
lunch to celebrate, gets all moist about
[NYTimes]
Crimes and Misdemeanors: Forget
marketing guru and American Apparel founder
Charney knows that no one can sell more underwear than Woody
Allen. Too bad he didn’t ask permission first. [
New Kid on The Block: Given the criteria, we most
likely qualify as “Lad Nouveau.” Call us that on the street and…
well, let’s just say you’d better have good insurance. [
UK]
“Well-Dressed Rebels”: ACL breaks down the stars of
April GQ. [
Lean]
Better Than a Card: Earnest Sewn will be offering
discount tattoos for Mothers Day. How come you never see moms sporting
“Son” tats? [
Love For Sale: Scarlett puts herself up for auction
on eBay, meaning it’s only a matter of hours before our PayPal bill
dwarfs our student loans. [Gawker]
Hip To Be Square: The Roots of American
Flair]
“Most Females Lie More Cleverly and Successfully Than
Men”: Or at least that’s what they want you to think. [
Wedding Bells?: Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. and Mrs.
Marc Jacobs. [
Transition of Power: In his first appearance as
Russia’s new President-elect, Dmitry Medvedev greets the nation in a
turtleneck and jeans apparently from Sears. Weep for the Motherland.
[Reuters]
Trading Sideways: Geeks fighting to replacing
hipsters? Let’s settle this one at the playground during recess. [
in Wax]
Bloggerati: Rising fashion blogger Kanye West is shut
out of Balenciaga, says he doesn’t really mind and declares that his
“first love is for fashion.” Jesus, it’s
Celebrity Truth]
To The Brim: Ain’t ya heard? The
Is
A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood: Please join us
on March 20th by
honor of Mr. Rogers, won’t you? [
Teenage Wasteland: Okay! Enough with the
Kennedy
already. [Everyone, Everywhere]
Man of Letters: Original
king, Goldwater Conservative and trad icon William F. Buckley
grabs a wing chair in that great club room in the sky. [Observer]
Theme Song: Remember
Their new tribute to Milan Fashion week is called, “Coke Freaks and
Fashion Whores.” Sounds right to us. [
“You’ll Never Go Wrong Dressing Plain and Dull”: This
only works when running for national office. Otherwise, feel free to
dress like a
elder. [
Tribune]
The Keith Richards Workout: “For me, doing a Rolling
Stones show for two hours a night, that’s enough f***in’ exercise, you
know? Then I’ve got to go to bed with the old lady, bonka bonka. You
know?” We know, Keef. We know. [Digital
Spy]
Simple Statutes: Oh, sorry, did we forget to post
Esquire’s New Laws of Casual Style? Here, let’s fix
that. [Esquire]
Salt of The Earth: It’s fun to dress like a laborer
when you don’t have to lift a finger. [
It’s a Cinch: Our mental jury is still out on this
drawstring-hem t shirt. [Carrying
Contraption]
Rope A Dope: According to this, Monroe-wannabe
Lindsay Lohan’s sobriety is hanging by a thread?a resonating,
energy-balancing thread. [SheFinds]
Tough Love: After banning Cathy Horyn, increasingly
pissy Giorgio Armani has some choice words for Anna Wintour. [
Big and Tall: After doing his best
J impression, Will Ferrell indulges in some Charles Barkley. [
">Style Dash]
“Why Does Everyone Hate Hipsters?”: Um, because
they’re hipsters? [
Politics as Usual: Sharia Law has nothing on campaign
dress codes. [
**Bulking Up**: There’s a pernicious rumor that we’ll see healthier, more human looking humans on Fashion Week’s runways. We’ll believe it when we see it. [Gawker]
**Flying Tomato Targeted**: Snowboarding, medal-winning, star-squiring ginger Shaun White added to Target’s collection. [DNRNews]
**Boy’s Room**: Shipley + Halmos have a great office, get good press, love Calexico’s burritos, fear the Superbowl. [Refinery29]
**Say Cheese**: A kinky look a Hedi Silmane’s photographic predilections. [Radar]
**”Hipster Tilley”**: Click for our endorsed candidate in the New Yorker’s Eustace Tilley Contest. [Flickr]
**Vaseline Smiles**: At last, the Miss America pageant is kinda, sorta sexy. [CNN]
**Butt Out**: Lighting up may threaten your sex life—in addition to other things. [Jamaica Gleaner]
**Playing Doctor**: As you already suspected, med students get more play than the average bear—mostly because they get to say, “Hey, I’m a med student.” [News.com.au]
**”Who’s Neck Gets Cold Anyway”**: Wearing a “polo neck” (trans.—turtle neck) could make you look smug and perhaps even glib. [Guardian UK]
**The Big Sleep**: Us Americans are such fatty fats that we need king-sized autopsy tables. [IHT]
In another chapter in the contentious, controversial dialog over men’s jewelry, the Wall Street Journal reveals that, “sales of men’s bling have taken off, nearly doubling from 2004 to 2006 and reaching $6 billion
in the U.S.” No suckers, _The Journal_ intimates that perhaps these figures have as much to do with clever luxury promotion and the recent crests in middle-class ostentation as true style. According to one expert, the trend has moved from hipsters and rappers to, “orthodontists in New Jersey,”—a tipping point or a death knell. Russell Simmons , with a somewhat different perspective, says he’s never seen, “a more untapped market.”
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