voice of the people

purple mag worth noting i guess?
when the fifty dollar mag makes you sure how hip and rich you are and it involves very little actual clothing . . .

which after a glance at fashion.net recently i realize a lot of fashion tycoonery is based on tasteful soft-porn, or ironic and elegant nakedness.

it doesn't bother me especially, so jaded i am by dov charney's plastering of los angeles with underage nakedness for so many years.   but in a tasteful or witty context . . .  and then i wonder of the future, is male beauty as universal?  who will exploit men to the degree they might be lovely nackt?
http://www.purple.fr/fashion.php?i=1

what in the future of the cult of men?  in the future men will be worshipped as gods of beauty, in ways beyone the posturing of the GQ's.  it will be yoji yamamoto and viktor and rolf forever . . . and gareth pugh . . .


i fell in love with olivier zham after one sight of a new york mag pic of him, what a genius!  and then stig harder knew of him.
james oscar said the first edition of purple was shot in his new york apartment.

morte macabre
quiet drops


i love olivier zham's proclaiming himself irrelevant to the future of bloggers . . . too old for point of view . . .
bloggers . . . .
to kill them all!

i care for nothing fashion-wise lately besides worshipping saggy heroin chic and kate moss, and envying hijab and black trenches and leggings and over size tank tops and oversize black t-shirts.

when would a  prada budget come????

and that olivier positions purple as the upscale vice, the upscale charney salaciousness, the voice of the eurobourgeois, and keeps true to juergen teller's laconic poloaroid minimalism.  the kitsch holds force.
i don't know anything about fashion, except i go to it when i am sad and empty and superficial and trying to reconnect with the material world to which i feel disconnected.

existential and hungry
narcissistic and disconnected
better than dead

new viktor & rolf

men who hate women

maybe dov charney should read or see men who hate women (man som hatar qvinnor)
stieg larsson viva

eh and how about gothic cyborg girls?

death from the seventh seal/ dov charney=bulimia

so utterly nauseated by the dov charney story.

"American Apparel is a sexually charged workplace where employees of both genders deal with sexual conduct, speech and images as part of their jobs," Charney's lawyers said in court documents.

at least all my creepy bosses wore clothes!!!!
http://server.finklawfirm.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=57

if one weren't too shy to leave the house yet, this might make one.  so glad the american apparel empire tumbles

oh but the behemoth is saved from bankruptcy for a while
http://www.stylelist.com/2010/10/05/american-apparel-saved-bankruptcy/

yay for credit!

the anti-sweatshop stance only goes so far when you operate your business like your retailers are sex workers . . .  hurling disgusting epithets at them  . . .

reminding me of the days when my mother explained the ironies of the benneton marketing campaign and asian sweatshop exploitation mixed with high price multi-cultural-marketing embracing clothes
http://www.theearthcenter.com/templates/firefly/archives/ffarchivessweatshops1.html

death says:  dov, you are an idiot and an embarrassment to the fashion industry!  get dressed!

in police brutality land here in portland, oregon, no look is complete without a little black panther

as portland police have murdered several young black men this 2010, look good when they kill you with this nice logo!
sported by felix haynes
felix da boss
documentarian


it's okay to be agorophobic when the marketplace is full of white racist murderers!
copenhagen
climate conference
free humanity
brutality

venus serenades moods of norway's gorgeous stefan dahlqvist in his pink suit

this is about the flirty gorgeous boys of moods of norway and their gorgeous suits, manners, blogs, girlfriends . .  .

if you are addicted to their good vibes check out their amazing 

http://my.opera.com/moodsofnorway/blog/

they are so funny and wonderful

and kudos to their amazing website.

wing-guys alert:  clean up your lads and put them in a moods look!!!!!  give them a cute accent!!!  make them ride a gold tractor!!!!!

adorable rocked out kawaii website too!!!!

http://www.moodsofnorway.com/

marketing director once overheard my chatter, exclaiming brilliant!  i was in the girls room where lots of important conversations happen!!!!

sorting out my adornment made me late for the party . . . but so many sweet suits on the sunset were surely worth it . . .

jazzy 

for moods of norway 

and stefan dahlkvist and meaghan

-joni mitchell style with barry goldberg and nick maybury-

based on the joni and mclaughlin in vikki mordoch's car the night before

nicky spoke of mclauglin's lotus sutra solos

he would be the one to know. nicky that is.

lyrics:

c'est ne pas normal

~~~~~

this might be from a band called venus in nicky's planets---

the music is supposed to sound like strawberry ice cream and butterflies~~~~~

a said to him

you better figure it out

a man with a pink suit

moods of norway song

for stefan dahlkvist

leo in disguise

scorpio's got a moon in sag so he's got a certain kind of style

sagittarius

recession 

keep us from dying

aye aye

ooooo

a certain pink suited man

ordered table service at the roxy (at the darlings show in april)

moods of norway suit

doing what he can 

for the price of oil in norway

meaghan is a natural

meaghan did(n't) understand

a poem about brocade (about josh nyback)

meaghan did(n't) understand

an unfortunate proposition

audrey napoleon

get out of the house facebookers!

sam dewey, eli meschures from "stay skinny LA", tattered jackets, monarchy, varvatos swag, air conditioned smogosphere, theosophy!!!!

no more confetti to throw:

"now you've had your fun under an airconditioned sun

love is a poverty you couldn't sell!"

stay skinny LA is super sag eli's fashion company that made shirts for the coachella.  with a retro appreciation for tobacco the logo uses a cigarette in the LA logo. eli meschures shows off his tattoo/brand logo.  the shirts sold fast.  we talked about recession renegades and silk screen double C's and turkish pants.  his haircut would look good with some turkish pants.

i want sam dewey to catch my main mate gareth pugh, the coolest fashion designer this side of viktor and rolf, and then also my yamamoto/limi feu/rei kawakubo/issey miyaki harujuku inspirations . . .

trouble is the smog is so thick in LA i feel half sick if i'm not in an airconditioned tent

gorgeous sam dewey is going to the fashion school downtown

pretties at the roosavelt.  i loved the fellow's deep cut black tank.  fearless . . .

we were recovering from the thom yorke nirvana moments

getting ready for the darling stillettos at the viper sept 17 2010

 look at nick maybury in his new varvatos boots from the cbgbs party september 11th and his monarchy jacket from the perry farrell scene.  swag rules the lives of the artists.  notice the AIR poster in the background!!!!! bonus points for rock and roll dandies!!!! darkle, beck!  moods people!

donovan was at the NYC party!  i'm freaked  . . .

the theosophy lodge is on vista del mar and it was where jimi hendrix's dealer lived, not the actual jimi.  i spoke there with the lovely ladies and told them of this gorgeous sebastian basso and his planetary art.  here he is holding a piece i gave to terra pasternak:

krotona colony on 2130 vista del mar 

my alisterz.com friends used to live here.  it was their fault i turned into a compulsive blogger!!!! kisses sam, justice, janine!

i was talking to this cool boutique owner at 1616 cahuenga.  it was so rock and roll and the bulletproof radiohead was blasting.  and then starbucks was blasting radiohead too.  thursday night  i was trying to take a picture of this rad guy's stitched jacket.  when thom yorke walked into the frame at the roosavelt where he was djing.  i'm still not over it.  and the picture means the world to me, he walked into the frame like the song "you fell into my arms" except it was just a shot.  and he was getting paparazzied and i wanted to respect it and leave the camera off his beautiful aura! but damage is done. i love the pic and the interchange.  what a hero.

sam dewey shows off her tattoo, a smoke inhalation paradox, that reminds me of a snake eating its own tail. with the sublime victoria mordoch.

moods of norway

photo by alex kluft

stylist nick maybury

jacket moods of noway

pants h&m of sweden!
lesportsac-ed like a tourist

oh my gosh cool enough for my own fashion blog!!!!!

olivier zham of purple: of bloggers

at the chanel ice show, zham said there will be no change for the environment without a change in the economics.
socialism?
http://www.style.com/video/fashion-shows-by-season/fall-2010-rtw/66311606001/chanel-fall-2010-rtw/71216989001

so pundity he is!  and so good to grasp the postpurple worlds

karl lagerfield for chanel dreams eco-theatre

pardon the fur motif

i love the hair and the medievalisms

and karl looks so saintly.   i love the ties on the women.   they look like dandy karl.    i think he really cares.  it came to him in a dream.   the earth melting.  so sci-fi mod.  and the sinister expressions of all the models.  they look so death in the seventh seal.
music: simple minds: themes for great cities

of torture, or torturing women, there was this
viktor & rolf

vogue italia oil spill fashion by steven meisel

i wonder who will do the blood splattered electrocutions at the fur farm shoot or the killing floor at the slaughterhouse shoot.  it's time.
i think the oil spill fashion is the beginning and end.
this blog was born as the oil rocked the earth, born in sorrow& anguish.

kate

splendor

anna wintour

almost in tears over the september issue. more later. it's beautiful. i never saw the devil wears prada, but got the feeling it would be the zoolander meets gossip girl meets sex in the city. but maybe i should see it.

with grace coddington


the galliano in the september issue was sublime. and the beautiful ladytron.
i go to fashion when i am very sad.

and so was working in beverly hills . . . daily a pilgrimage to a blood diamond paradise . . for the true nihilists . . .
so much talk of fur though, it is so sad. despite that darkness that is so heavy, i can never imagine surrounding my body with so much blood and pain!
i envy them their callous brutality.
i'd rather die.
maybe they'd make a coat of me.

to be so narcissistic as so to think.

it makes me think of stig harder of fashion.net. i have to write about him sometime. he was fascinating.