Chelsea girl?

riding the L this weekend i noticed a lot of very pretty girls with very pretty half-shaved heads. then i opened Self-Service and saw model Alice Dellas:



i like the dramatic asymmetry, especially with long hair. and i like it because it's punky,


singer Cassie


singer Rihanna

sported by kinda cool popettes,



and has tougher roots



co-opted from Native Americans.

felt! felt! felt!

i found out about the fashioning felt exhibit at cooper-hewitt at the last minute and luckily got in to see it at the last minute.

felt goes back eight thousand! years and is a truly sustainable material. from start to finish felting is a relatively simple, low impact, and democratic process, still traditionally popular among the nomadic peoples of central asia -- who use it for rugs to booties to saddle bag flair. the exhibited contemporary artists use felt as a form for creatively utilitarian objects and a lot of wearables, to simply pretty ephemera.

an inspiring show of raw material and talent.

some of my favorite pieces, of course, were the dresses.


francoise hoffman: her shapes happen organically (nope, no sewing here), through fusing, often with fabrics like silk.

ps: a nice high felt blog

free headshots

The Walk-In Portrait Studio by Femke Lutgerink (interviews) & Corine Vermeulen-Smith (photography)

From Tuesday April 14th until Saturday April 18th, 2009 the Walk-in Portrait Studio on 13106 Klinger Street, Detroit, MI opened its doors from 11 AM - 5 PM. Inspired by the famous Walker Evens photograph of the License Photo Studio in New York we set out to create a studio on Klinger Street. The studio was set up in a formerly foreclosed house that is currently being renovated. Over the course of 5 days around 85 people came in to have their portraits taken. The next week the portraits could be picked up at the same location.


aida

jamal

rema

kawaun

renee

tina

willy

zana

good morning androgyny

lonely abundance, a puce moment indeed

if you've never seen this Kenneth Anger short

read
watch
go

only a rich celebrity could say

"The people with the best style for me are the people that are the poorest. Like, when I go down to Venice beach and I see the homeless, like, I'm like, 'Oh my God, they're pulling out, like, crazy looks and they, like, pulled shit out of like garbage cans." Alexander Wang's model-muse Erin Wasson tells NYLON.tv

yup, pretty crazy

anna's not so bad, she's worse

if you haven't yet seen the september issue, don't.

from ghetto to fabulous?

my love



meet my new love