The modeling industry today has blurred the line between what’s socially acceptable as a working model and what it actually takes to be working as a model in L.A or New York. Imagine this: you’re signed to one of the major modeling/talent agencies, V.I.P at all shows and parties, on the cover of magazines on [...]

My goodness, the trends in this culture… First the Australian Jackson 5 blackface dweebs did their stupid little act that upset Harry Connic, Jr. and many others, then there was model Lara Stone who swapped skin tones for French Vogue, and now, bursting onto the No-Taste Stage is one of the single dumbest people on [...]

The late, great, and oft-profound David Foster Wallace articulated the following idea in his 2005 commencement speech to Kenyon College (please indulge the long quotation)   “Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as [...]

There’s no question that the culture of celebrity worship has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. It’s nearly impossible to imagine Audrey Hepburn being told to “Go Fxxx Yourself,” or Gene Kelly being savaged by a Cold War-era Perez Hilton. Since fame and fashion are inextricably intertwined, as our cultural relationship with fame has [...]

The quickened pace of consumer culture could make fashion victims of us all. As television and the internet have made everyone into a sartorial expert, high end fashion houses (Commes de Garcons, Chanel) must choose between competing with their fast food brethren (Forever 21, H&M) or rising above the fray to maintain their elite status. [...]

Andrea Perini is a tall, blonde of wacky braids, intermittent freckles and lengthy velour  strands who doesn’t give a shit what you think. She scuttles by me on the street, unaware of my seated position behind the trash cans out front of her Brooklyn clothing studio at 35 Driggs Ave. In her spiked, black heels [...]

The first time I came across Adrian Alicea back in 1989 I was stationed out in Milan, Italy. When I say ‘came across’ what I should make clear is that he wasn’t anyone I had met at the time but rather someone like most young men at the time had come to revere and idolize. [...]