where pretty goes to die

Detroit, MI:















thanks C.

the real way to wear "tribal" prints un-ironically

be in 1989. and really hot.

what i got myself for christmas

it killed my first school project idea, but is already a long time coming: congrats to Amelia Klem Osterund!



imagine a new year where our rulers were less, um, uptight.

i can only take credit for the hat.

i know you think you're the queen of the underground

but these ladies have you beat.





see more at the City Reliquary and this lovely slideshow

and you can have your shot at Miss G train next year...

because everyone loves soft porn.

ponyxpress is one of the best all-photo-no-text art/fashion/sex blogs out there: monothematic images of beauty and scum and beauty and scum and beauty -- and naked chicks -- it just doesn't get old somehow.


Valeria Priano photo

just say no to Black Friday

say yes to Buy Nothing Day and Reverend Billy



if you live in America, it's impossible to not shop sometimes. but the fact there is a national holiday surrounding it is sick. if you need to get things, always practice creation, trade, second-hand, collectives/farmer's markets and independent business first -- if not only.

and if you need to buy a christmas present, this makes a good one:

give thanks to the american indians

and the beautiful costume that was all but destroyed with them.











Edward Curtis photos

a homesick photo series

c/o brian ulrich. and the midwest. i moved here 2 weeks too late...

see some sad fashion symbiosis

Hair India Sunday nite only at AMNH


Schmatta the next few days on HBO

the Current TV of fashion?

COLORS "a magazine about the rest of the world" is just that. the current "teenager" issue features a truly worldwide exploration of sub-places and people.



along with the glossy (available at St. Mark's bookstore), the online version is vast and includes lots of user-uploaded content. can't wait for the next one...

EV Day does Deitch - and the opera.

you can see it for exactly four hours tomorrow

O, really?

although i love Diane Pernet, and her blog, i'm not so convinced this is a commie revolution. actually, i'm puking.

Master and Creator and Couture
Collection #1: Holes - A Different Fashion of Fashion

An interview with Simon de Boer. By Simon de Boer

trick or treat

smell katie's sweets

everyday is Halloween for juggalos

oh, Insane Clown Posse.

when i was in eighth grade, i was in love with my friend's much older (17!!!) brother, M. M had somehow already acquired an entire body of tattoos and piercings, had a full part-time job, and chain smoked like a union boss. he also listened to ICP in his car, which i was blessed to sometimes be driven to school, Taco Bell, and exotic downtown Royal Oak skate shops in. i tried to like them for his sake, but was, um, a girl who read books and stuff. but like most other Michiganders who grew up in the 90s, i can't help but have a soft spot for this hometown duo:



juggalos, as the family of ICP fans are known, embrace their freakdom as putting an in-your-FACE on the underbelly of the (mostly white) lower class.





part thug life, Satan worship, Lord of the Rings nerd alert, and just plain ridiculously terrible music, the hidden part of ICP is they are international fashion capitalists; a true juggalo owns enough ICP t-shirts to go under enough ICP hoodies to match his ICP shoes so he can kick back and read an ICP magazine with ICP ads for more ICP stuff.



as much as the Williamsburg art crowd like looking like they don't have a trust fund, i don't think they will ever co-opt this particular mode of anti-bourgeoisie.



or begin to understand it.

somewhere between Goths and Victorians