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FEATURE ARTICLE                   <critique, opinion, love>

  

[ DEAD FEET DÉCOLLETAGE ]

 

Dead is the new alive!  Get the latest look unfresh from the runway to wow them at work, step out at night and spark up your love life.  Forget heroin chic, forget anorexia- the word from the top fashionistas in Europe is DEAD FEET DECOLLETAGE. The style is easy to emulate. Just follow our five-step guide and you'll soon be having your fifteen minutes six feet under

 

  

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NEWS                             <read, inform, know>

 

[ ALIFE ]

Ben Ewey

 

A one-stop lifestyle-shop for New York artists, stylists, fashionistas and anyone else wanting to soak up the essence of New York street culture.

 

 

 


[ RIPPING YARNS ]

Dominic Lutyens 

When grandmothers exhort their grandchildren to wrap up warm in winter, glamour is the last thing on their minds. But Jo Gordon is one fashion designer who has given fusty granny knits a funky new lease of life.

 

 

 


[ SUBSURFACE GIRL ]

 

Southend-on Sea has a street and skate scene unique to this Essex enclave. Last year, a bunch of S-O-S skaters got together to develop their own 'UK Street Label' and called it Subsurface. For a while, Subsurface only catered for boys but its striking and surreal graphic T-shirts have also attracted a strong female following. So now there's Subsurface Girl, a range of just four T-shirt prints available in baseball, tank tops and classic T-shirt styles. This is quality Essex girl gear - and not a stiletto heel in sight.

 


[ TASTELESS TOAD ACCESSORIES ]

 

You may have thought that the people at Pete's Bizarre Bazaar (who invented kangaroo poo earrings) couldn't come up with anything as tacky, but they have. You can now buy a range of accessories made from the skin of cane toads. The range includes mobile phone covers, sun visors, purses and bum bags (nice) all of which are designed to look like toads. The cane toad is not native to Australia and is considered a pest since its poisonous skin is lethal to wildlife. The leather is sourced from an eradication programme which "humanely" destroys cane toads.

 

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SPOTLIGHT                            <global expose>

 

[ CANADA’S URBAN UNDERGROUND ]

 

slinkster explores some up and coming Canadian labels that are giving the world a run for their money on the urban  street styles front

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ARTICLES                            <chat, learn, hype>

 

[ SOAP OR FOOD? ]

 

Mike Warren ponders the plethora of ‘edible’ personal body care products and begs the question- where do you cross the line? 

 

 

 

 

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INTERVIEW                           <meet and greet>

 

[ HOT DIGGETY ]

Roving reporter Erin Telford caught up with head accessories designer for

Triple 5 Soul, Jennifer Wannarachue, at this year’s Winter Music Conference.  Read about the vibe in New York and her creative plans for the future 

 

 

 

 

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IN FOCUS                               <check it >

>>Bernadette Corporation Founded 1993; based in New York

[ BERNADETTE CORPORATION ]

 

(BC) is a shifting collective-collaborative, deliberately sidestepping precise categorization, made up of young artists, fashion designers, stylists, and filmmakers. The organization has begun to function as its own kind of cultural institution, providing an authentic, legitimizing context for otherwise marginalized modes of expression and talent. BC began producing multimedia events and situations in 1993, starting with after-opening parties and evolving to art and fashion flea markets and bazaars in SoHo parking lots and the broadcast of A Fashion Event for Fashion Week on Manhattan Cable Public Access. For the past few years, its work has centered almost exclusively around fashion. BC has produced several very successful lines of clothing, and its exceptional fashion shows--incorporating video, photography, music, and choreography--have received impressive notices in Artforum, The Face, Harper's Bazaar, Index, and the New York Times. Since 1998 BC has been working on the publication of a fashion magazine, Made in USA, which exposes and investigates the conventions of the worlds of fashion, music, and art. Let's Entertain features an installation of photo and video documentation of a fashion shoot titled Creation of a False Feeling (2000).

 

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