Tag: Hipster
Camel Hopes to Spread the Hipster Cancer with Williamsburg-brand Cigarettes
Are you listening North 6th street? Joe Camel wants all you ‘modern day pioneers’ aggressively flaunting your ‘lighthearted angst and rebellion’ to know that lighting up a Williamsburg brand Camel cigarette (as...
Meet KIKI, the preferred Decadent Girl.
Never mind the first decade of the new millennium, this is very much a fin-de siècle icon of our imminently doomed society, that said we urge you to come and sprinkle your disdain on Kiki’s decadent...
The top 5 fashion faux pas of 2010. Who’s committing them and why we believe in public floggings.
We’ve all cringed at the sight of the most obvious fashion faux pas and yet because we supposedly live in a liberated society where one can dress and go as they wish we hold our tongue...
The arrival of the Bushwick hipster.
If you want irony you're best advised to stay in Williamsburg, on the other hand if you're seeking legitimacy and a kind of jaundiced slacker attitude that comes with skinny kids wearing dog collars without...
Odyn Vovk: One Wolf, One Look, And One Cranky Reporter.
Any show where the bouncer is thinner and more fashionable than I am sets me on edge, but I tried not to let that affect my opinion of Odyn Vovk’s Fall 2010 Collection. I’m fairly certain I failed. Odyn...
Learning to love the ‘hipster.’
Hipsters exist in abundant sources. They can be found milling derelict streets that only they can enjoy, Pabst strewn dance floors, Euro- centric cafe/brasseries and from time to time on the periphery of the real world that most of...
Observations on the G train.
The G train is akin to a slinky rattlesnake making its way through a Western shoot out with a myriad of characters languishing on the saloon floor while licking at the collective backsides of Prada make believe outfits and...
The etiquette of Smoking crack. The last crack hipster.
Adventures in the basement.
For those of who are looking for a new fix can we suggest an introduction to the last crack hipster. Admittedly, the drug is somewhat out of vogue but thankfully for us he is still persevering-
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Rumor mill; Hipsters planning on getting real jobs sometime in the next century.
When being a useless ironic layabout is starting to lose its edge.
Anyone gone for a long leisurely walk up and around Bedford Avenue or Driggs lately? Noticed something different? Noticed less ironic people staring at reflections of themselves in...
Sabina Les: The etiquette of the Scarf.
After honing her craft by designing for top retailers such as Gap, Guess, and J-Lo, Sabina Les has launched a line of printed silk scarves that have already received an extraordinary amount of attention, including placement on the Today...
A ride on the wild side- Fashion Island.
Nostradamus predicted that in the year 2010 Fashion Island will become one of the most predominately ‘chic’ shopping centers in all of America. It will become bigger, better, brighter and more decadent than any other shopping center south of...
Slaughter in Williamsburg.
Saturday Night in Williamsburg- the hipster's are starting to look more like Taliban with their 12 inch beards and track bikes (bikes without brakes.) There is no stopping the influx of these pirates blindly plowing down Bedford, just hoping...
Ritual Slaughter: How Matt Timms has Bobby Flay’d the Hipster Movement.
The trouble with insulting hipsters is that they will most often take it as a compliment. Their powers of alchemy do not stop at gentrification. These irony-clasts turn even the most ingenious criticism into a punch line for their...
Sunday Night Crises with Hipsters.
The Glasslands Gallery has all the expected hallmarks of a Williamsburg absurdist theatre: bikes, stuffed animal heads, vintage appliances, undulating, gender-less masses and assorted ironic accoutrement. My drink tickets were ripped up Uno cards, reminiscent of a by-gone era...
Omar Vega: No Love Lost.
When you first meet Omar Vega the first thing he is apt to do is count the number of steps separating you between him and you, the types of shoes you are wearing, whether you slouch, slink like a...
