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Anahata the Brave
I recently had the opportunity to hang with the talented, gorgeously quirky and boundlessly energized musician Anahata LaBaw, known musically by the monikers Anahata Sound and, more recently, Hopscotch. We met at the Berkeley Rose Garden in the dusky magic hour, and Anahata caught me up on her new projects and inspirations. Hi Anahata. So [...]
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Irene in Wonderland
One sunny day earlier this Spring, I stopped by to visit Irene Hernandez-Feiks in her shop, Wonderland SF. We played dress-up and had a little chat about her business, the San Francisco art and fashion worlds, and what the future holds.
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Inkbramble’s Top Ten NYFW #3: Rodarte
Like the prairie itself, Rodarte’s new collection for F/W 2011 spread out in an endless expanse of horizon and sky.
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Inkbramble’s Top Ten NYFW #4: Marc Jacobs
Sometimes – just sometimes – we want to wear something because it looks so right and at the same time feels…well…a little bit wrong. Marc Jacobs is banking on just that urge in each of us.
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Inkbramble’s Top Ten NYFW: #5, Alexander Wang
Alexander Wang holds steadfastly to his position as crown prince of cool, unexpected and mouth-watering American sportswear.
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Fishbowl
Ohh, Mary…that woman just keeps on bringing it! Mary Katrantzou trotted out another winner collection for Spring 2012, rife with both the extravagant bloom of nature and the rampant excesses of humans. Her most interesting pieces located the point where the two meet to perform a weirdly unsettling dance – such as the below dress, [...]
Les Mannequins de 2011
Let it be said that I’m an aesthete with an activist’s heart. Or maybe it’s the other way ’round; I’m not sure. It can be a puzzle, navigating the world of fashion while in possession of such an internal schism. A plethora of challenges await the fashion devotee-with-a-conscience: the sustainability/ethical sourcing of materials, the conditions [...]
Style Like Who? U, Of Course.
A while ago I was asked by the endlessly inspiring website StyleLikeU to illustrate seven of the many incredible muses featured on their site. StyleLikeU provides a The Selby-esque view into unique and stylish people’s private spaces and wardrobes. They’ve gotten into the closets and heads of such intriguing personalities as singer Lana Turner; model [...]
Bound
Manifesto to Nobuyoshi Araki terrorist of emotion rescuing people from luxuries of goodness and reason self righteous ones! life is chaos as it should be stop pretending like there’s such thing as safety and stability they don’t exist set the bomb, set the explosion set it in a way that can’t be predicted shock is [...]
Palme d’Or
Tropical flora has long been a recurring motif in Spring/Summer and Resort apparel collections, though it’s certainly had its moments of being cracked down on by the fashion police. (The Hawaiian shirt, after all – especially when worn in concert with a big camera, big belly and big mouth – has become synonymous with the [...]
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