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05/27/11
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Solange is Shedding Layers

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Please, Let’s Not: The Latest in shoe trends: Mexican jester boots that curve up two feet in front of your toes. We’ll say it: worse than Crocs. [Antenna]

This Week in Slander: A fake Q&A with Terrence Malick. Apparently he’s a big American Idol fan. [Vulture]

Top Hats For All: A spotter’s guide to well-dressed Englishmen this summer. [Men’s Flair]

Under the Brim: An intelligent gentleman thinks long and hard about purchasing a hat. [A Suitable Wardrobe]

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05/16/11
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Riding Low

El Diablo

One of our favorite photographers just put up a brace of photos from last weekend’s El Diablo run, a tequila-soaked gathering of motorbikes winding from Temecula, CA down through the Baja haunts of San Felipe and Ensenada. As you might expect, it’s full of tattoos, denim jackets and Harleys. Ride easy, gentlemen.

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05/05/10
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Gil Elvgren Knows How to Paint a Happy Bear

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The Golden Age: Boing Boing digs up a treasure trove of midcentury cheesecake art coming up for auction. [Boing Boing]

Live by the Machete, Die by the Machete: The year’s most trenchant statement on immigration involves people being gored with a machete. Don’t let us down, Trejo. [Vulture]

Sun Worshippers: Not to be outdone by a grindhouse flick, the Suns change their jerseys to read “Los Suns.” Class move, gentlemen. [Yahoo]

Blue People, Dear Reader: The Na’vi language gets an in-depth look, although it’s still not as complex as Klingon. [The Verge]

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04/29/10
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The New Frames

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The best frames don’t always come from designers—for one, the touchstone of British eyewear is still the National Health Service specs rocked by Morrissey and Elvis Costello—so it’s worth paying attention to what’s the world’s opticians have in stock.

These frames from Yves Behar’s Fuseproject just arrived as part of a larger charity mission to get proper eye care to Mexican schoolchildren. They’ll be shipping out at a rate of roughly 300,000 a year, which means they’ll have a pretty big footprint. We prefer the round Corbusier-style frames, but there’s also a squared off version and the colors will change up from school to school. They should be a signature style for a whole generation of kids, so don’t be surprised if you see them on the next movie star who moves north to make it big.

Or if you see a knockoff in next year’s designer collections.

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03/27/08
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Playboy Under Wraps, Emo Wars and Going on The Pill

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White Wash: The massive DKNY advertising mural turned
Soho icon at Manhattan’s Houston and Broadway is, like all the other
signs of the neighborhood’s 80s heyday, not long for this world. [ href="http://www.wwd.com/fashionscoops/article/123774?page=1">WWD]

NFL Lock Out: Football may ban excessive hair use,
putting an end to those Thors and rastas of the gridiron. [ href="http://www.styledash.com/2008/03/27/nfl-may-force-players-to-cut-their-hair/">Styledash]

Chaste Bunnies: The Philippine version of Playboy
will be a fully-clothed, demure affair with, “maybe one nipple,” here
and there. No fun. [Canadian Press]

Forever in Blue Jeans: Mike “Muffin Top” Albo
searches for recession-proof denim. [ href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/fashion/27CRITIC.html?_r=1&ref=fashion&oref=sloginv">NYTimes]

Panic at The Mexico: Emo kids are facing systematic
beat downs south of the border and uniting to defend their rights and
feathered hair. March on, wasted youth. March on. [ href="http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/mob-emo-bashings-sweep-mexicotelevis-vjs-rants-inspire-violence/">The
Daily Swarm]

Forged Signature: Refusing to let a little thing like
legal permission hold it back, an Italian clothes maker bravely
strikes out on its own to create the George Clooney collection. [ href="http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/123773">WWD]

The Holy Grail: Bring on the male birth-control pill.
[Altpenis]

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