Tag Archives: fashion

At Last Night’s GLAAD Event

Google has either done away with embeddable Picasa slideshows or hidden the function well enough that I can no longer find it, so click over here for tons of photos of the bold face (mostly) gay-gay-gay names that crowded the red carpet at last night’s GLAAD event in Manhattan. Within you’ll find Orange Is The New Black cast member Laverne …

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Kenneth Cole On Syria

Cole has released a follow-up Instagram clip defending his tweet.

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Guys With Fancy Lady Hair

The Bold Italic took some long-haired dudes to the beauty parlor for some fancy lady ‘dos that came out “baby breath-taking.” More examples at the link.

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CLAIM: Apparel Chain Forever 21 Cuts Staffing Hours To Evade Obamacare

Jezebel has some details: According to the letter, an unnumbered but significant amount of employees will no longer receive paid time off, will not be allowed to work more than 29.5 hours a week and will no longer have health insurance. The company has been inundated with numerous comments on their Facebook page from angry customers who say they will …

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LGBT Groups Seek Designer For Pro-Gay Outfits To Be Worn At Sochi Olympics

Vogue reports: Athlete Ally and All Out are searching for a high profile, international designer to create an anti-homophobia motif for Olympians to wear during Russia’s Winter 2014 Olympics. The move challenges Russia’s new laws against “gay propaganda”, which were introduced in June and make it illegal to equate gay and heterosexual relationships, or to distribute information about gay rights. …

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Avicii – Wake Me Up

Dance music meets apparel branding. Via the press materials: Today, two-time Grammy-nominated superstar, Avicii and Denim & Supply Ralph Lauren will release the first co-produced official music video for “Wake Me Up,” the first single from Avicii’s September 17th album, TRUE (PRMD/Island Records). The video was directed by celebrated American photographer Mark Seliger, and merges the hallmarks of Avicii’s driving …

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Want A Chest Hair Coat?

You can have one for about $4000. From Lady Gaga’s meat dress to necklaces made from pheasant’s skulls, some designers use all sorts of weird and wonderful materials in the name of fashion. But the latest design is really quite hair-raising. One company has unveiled the world’s first fur coat made from 100 per cent male chest hair. The coat …

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NJ Town To Ban Saggy Pants

A New Jersey town is set be the next municipality to try and ban saggy pants. Mayor Ernest Troiano Jr. thinks he’s found a way to put one of this Jersey shore resort town’s problems behind it. Wildwood is ready to ban overly saggy pants, no ifs, ands or butts. The city is set to pass a law Wednesday regulating …

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Fitch The Homeless

Some of the YouTube commenters feel this campaign is disrespectful to the homeless. Others are strongly disagreeing. (Tipped by JMG reader Curt)

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“Ultra-Distressed” Sneakers: $1975

Copyranter: “They appear to be extremely authentically ‘ultra-distressed.’ You can’t put a price tag on this level of fake realness.” Now available at Barney’s, of course.

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Suri Cruise To Launch Fashion Line

Seven year-old Suri Cruise, daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, has reportedly signed a $2.3M deal to launch her own fashion line. “Suri is only seven but she is incredibly interested in clothes. She has been through a very difficult year and adapted amazingly to her new life in New York, including the upheaval of starting normal school,” a …

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Abercrombie CEO: No Fatties, No Uglies

We’ve known that Abercrombie CEO Michael Jeffries was a beyond-creepy douche ever since that 2006 Slate profile, so this latest flap really isn’t very surprising.

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What To Wear At CPAC

  Wonkette tips us that a publicist has created the above guide on what to wear at CPAC.  Teabaggers are especially warned not to wear their Walmart outfits.

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Jesus Vs Jesus

Six years ago an Italian clothing company miraculously received a US trademark to make clothing bearing the word “Jesus.” And ever since then the lawsuits have been flying. Via the Wall Street Journal: The owner of the trademark, Jesus Jeans, has clamped down on Jesus-themed apparel, pitting its litigators against more than a dozen other startup clothing lines it claims …

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Marc Jacobs For Diet Coke

Diet Coke’s ad agency really loves the gay designers. Garth Johnston writes at Gothamist: When catsh*t crazy designer Karl Lagerfeld was named Diet Coke’s creative director and released his custom Diet Coke bottles we smiled. Because c’mon…Karl Lagerfeld. But that was back in 2011—he was followed by Jean Paul Gaultier at the “helm” in 2012, and now it is time …

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Netflix For Neck Ties

Lifehacker tips us to Freshneck, a new website that it calls the “Netflix for neck ties.” If you put on a tie every day or the dress code at work is formal enough that you could use help keeping your wardrobe fresh, FreshNeck can help. It’s a subscription service that lets you select up to three ties, cufflinks, pocket squares …

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Top Ten Hipster Neighborhoods

So says Forbes Magazine. The San Francisco-based startup Nextdoor.com helped us dig through data on more than 250 neighborhoods in the biggest U.S. cities. We assessed each area’s walkability according to Walkscore.com; the number of neighborhood coffee shops per capita (with some help from NPD Group’s report); the assortment of local food trucks (and their ranking according to Zagat’s); the …

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The NFL Has New Uniform Pants

Yahoo Sports describes the new sheer NFL uniform pants by Nike as providing a “surprising look” at the players. (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

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Photo Of The Day

Fair skin is highly prized among some Chinese women, who consider it a sign of aristocracy. The above full-face masks have become a minor fad among female beach goers. “I’m afraid of getting dark,” said the mask-wearer, Yao Wenhua, 58, upon emerging from the seaweed-choked waters of this seaside city in China’s eastern Shandong Province. Eager to show why she …

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You Thought OUR Uniforms Were Bad?

Spain’s Olympians have taken to social media to complain about their official uniforms. I’ll take a Number Three, extra pickle.

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