Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
What's With Lindsay Lohan?
Lindsay Lohan has a new collection of legging for her brand 6126, however while reading about her new collection and how she not going to compromise quality for the economy, I couldn't help but to wonder about her weight. Is it just me or does home girl look extra skinny and sick? Clearly the reporter missed the big story here "Does Lindsay have a eating disorder" or perhaps the media is finally over her weight issues. I don't know, you be the judge.Mr. West Is A Storyteller
Grammy award winning artist, Kanye West taped an upcoming episode of VH1 Storytellers at The Sony Stages in Los Angeles last Friday. This exclusive performance, "VH1 Storytellers: Kanye West" will premiere Saturday, February 28 at 9:00 PM on VH1. The hour long show will feature West performing songs from his critically acclaimed album 808's & Heartbreak in addition to past hits. Following in the "Storytellers" format, viewers will get a unique opportunity to hear the inspiration and stories behind each song.
Kanye Covers Details Magazine
Kanye- On being ready to pour all his “superhero” energy into conquering fashion: “Put this in the magazine: There’s nothing more to be said about music. I’m the f—ing end-all, be-all of music. I know what I’m doing. I did 808s in three weeks. I got it. It’s on cruise control. . . . Man, we talked about music for God knows how long! Now let’s talk about how my f—ing sweater didn’t come back right from Korea. That’s what’s interesting me.”Kanye-On using “gay” as a compliment: “Titles are very important. I like to embody titles, y’know, or words that have negative connotations, and explain why that’s good,” he says. “Take the word gay—like, in hip-hop, that’s a negative thing, right? But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I’ve encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y’know, I haven’t, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person—the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design—it’d be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids’ll say, ‘Dude, those pants are gay.’ But if it’s, like, good, good, good fashion-level, design-level stuff, where it’s on a higher level than the average commercial design stuff, it’s, like, gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, ‘Dude, that’s so good it’s almost . . . gay.’”
Oh Kanye.......Gotta love him!
The March issue hits stands February 24
In The Name Of Fashion
I was reading this very interesting article in this months New York Magazine "The Confession of a Serial Shoplifter". Kevahn Thorpe is a fashion fanatic and a serial shoplifter for whom jail was not too steep a price to pay for the labels he loves. Kevahn is a slim 17 year old from Queen bridge projects. He started at local stores like Macy, until one day when he and his mom was looking for a train station and he ended up on the corner of Madison and 5th where names of Prada, Gucci, Dior and Fendi ring out loud. Kevahn decided that he no longer wanted the cheap Ed Hardy T-shirts from Macy's but he wanted the cashmere v-neck Hugo Boss sweaters and True Religion Jeans. Some people will do anything in the name of fashion, below are a few snippets from the 6 page article.
"Sometimes he likes to perform what he calls “the Outfit Check.” Coral J. Crew cashmere V-neck sweater—check. Gucci charcoal skinny jeans—check. Gucci double-G logo belt—check. Spotless brand-new cream-and-gold Louis Vuitton Damier checkerboard- pattern sneakers—check. Blue Fendi glasses frames with the FENDI sticker still stuck on the lower corner of the lens—check. When he’s dressed like this, he says, “I feel high-class—like nobody can tell me nothing.”
When I ask about his plans for after he gets out of prison, all he wants to talk about is fashion, firing questions at me: “Who does Dior now?” “Who designs Paul Smith?” “Remember Louis Vuitton? Like, a few seasons ago, he did a SpongeBob theme? You know Louis Vuitton started off making trunks, right? In the 1800s?” “Balenciaga, who does it for women’s?” He pauses to learn how to correctly pronounce Nicolás Ghesquière’s name. “You know that Yves Saint Laurent died, right? At 71 years old. He’s the first person, the first designer, to have black people model his clothing.” A burly Department of Corrections captain is supervising our visit, and I’ve been imagining his disdain as he listens to this conversation. Now he interrupts. “He could be good working for a fashion publicist,” he says. “That’s something I can see you at, right there.”
Read the full article, click on the link below.
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