the PIPELINE: Style on Tap
- August 11, 2008 5:33 PM
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God Rest His Soul: Honoring the '70s Style of Isaac Hayes
By now you've heard that Soul legend Isaac Hayes passed away this weekend, mere hours after the death of Bernie Mac. Rather than melancholically catalog his musical accomplishments or wax philosophical about his cultural importance to Black America, we thought we'd just offer this photo digest detailing his many sartorial highlights. In an era when Black style was coming into its own and bald was yet to be beautiful, Black Moses definitely led the way.
- July 25, 2008 10:01 AM
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Beauty Secrets of The Princess: Circa 1971?
A friend of ours—specifically one of the bad-ass designers at Coach—collects vintage beauty books, and when she told us about The Beautiful People's Beauty Book, just the title made us dizzy with delight. It took a while to track our own copy down, but lo and behold, we snatched up a little paperback on eBay. And just as we had imagined, it was even more delectable than a fat farm in Gstaad!
Of course, this treasure wouldn't be nearly as covetable if it weren't for the "author," Princess Luciana Pignatelli (later she dropped the Princess and added Avedon when she married Dick's cousin Burt). She didn't exactly write the thing (technicalities—"as told to Jeanne Molli"), but all the glorious jewels of utter beautiosity, ranging from eye lifts and traveling with your wigs, to lash implants and homosexual facials (it's not what you're thinking) are pure Pignatelli. More about the Princess and her amazing, beautiful secrets below.
- July 22, 2008 4:12 PM
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Brit Picks: The Best of London Fashion Books
Paper dresses and space-age outfits may have lost their popularity, but Max Decharne, author of King's Road: The Rise and Fall of the Hippest Street in the World, hasn't forgotten any moments of the 1960s London style revolution. Calling the Brit city a "capital of cool" in his book, Decharne observes King's Road as the epicenter of a cultural DIY movement. In Kings's Road, fashion-forward rebels like the Clash and Vivienne Westwood slash and saftey-pin their clothes, while the colorful Mary Quant defines London's mod fashions. Going on Decharne's expertise, the Guardian has solicited his picks for the most defining London fashion books of the times. Books like Quant by Quant by (of all people) Mary Quant and a Rockers! fashion tome offer glimpses of a more well-known scene, while others like The Teds and Worst Fashions offer eye-opening glimpses at the stylish and quirky looks of the time. Whatever the subject, these picks are a strong dose of London style inspiration—Agyness, eat your heart out. (Guardian)
- June 19, 2008 5:39 PM
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New York Noise: No Wave's Anti-Style
Left to right: Richard Hell and James Chance. (Image by Julia Gorton)
Last week we joined the book release party for Thurston Moore and Byran Coley's new book No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980 down the block from our office. The careworn survivors of New York's brief, clamorous music scene gathered on the sidewalk in front of KS Art before heading across the street to the Knitting Factory for a one-time reunion of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. As the gaggle of noise-rock pioneers squinted under the sun, dressed and aged much like the 50-somethings they are, we stopped thinking about the musical influence of the movement and started wondering about the sartorial legacy of No Wave.
- Huffington Post Style
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- Racked
- MySpace Fashion
- Cafe Mode
- V Magazine
- Portfolio/Fashion Inc
- Style Will Save Us
- We Are the Market
- Fashion Trend Digest
- The Happy Corp
- This is Glamorous
- Mode et Utopie
- Fashion Minute
- Queerty
- No Good For Me
- Seamsters
- Cool Chiq
- Second City Style
- Karin's Style Blog
- Frugal Fashionista
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New York Noise: No Wave's Anti-Style