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TrendSpark: Polygamist Pastel
We’ve all been watching the story of the polygamist wives in Texas and we’re enthralled by their simple, yet stylish ways. It got me thinking of Chloe Sevigny’s character in HBO’s Big Love (yeah, we’ve been on a Chloe trip for the past week, we will commence the search for a new indie style god soon, promise). Is it weird that I feel this look can take off? Probably not since Glam is already talking about this looks staying power stating the exact details.
“As rogue photographers have documented, all women in the conservative sect wear long-sleeve, floor-length pastel shirt dresses–striking, unusual pieces that look like a cross between Victorian woolen mill uniforms and the corduroy numbers Delta Burke sported on Designing Women.”
Nifty. What’s really scary is that I’m starting to think Chloe Sevigny is a psychic. How could she have known that this look would take off, how is she so in tune with the obscure fashion universe? I think we need to get her on the search for Osama Bin Laden or something cause I have a feeling she’s hiding her superhuman abilities from the world so that she can continue to remain one step ahead of every trend.
“I see love in your future and really high waisted white jeans.”
Popularity: 3% [?]
Fendi Goes DIY
This really isn’t ‘indie’ but I thought it was an interesting take on a big designer name trying to make something that we can later, as consumers, change and make our own. So basically, the power of design is in your hands. You can buy a $1300 bag, with the Fendi Logo in front, and then customize it to your own individual style. Very nifty. Check out the perks:
- Coated canvas
- Removable belted shoulder strap with buckle attachments
- Interior twist-lock closures allow buckles to be removed for clutch carry (two for one deal)
- Polished gold metal logo-engraved appliqués on each side
- Acrylic double-F logo on the front (in case you didn’t know it’s Fendi)
- Flap top with magnetic snap closure
- Multicolored cartoon-like logo textile lining (cartoon? remind you of anything? Hint; LV)
- Interior leather-trimmed zip pocket
- Ten Pantone Universe markers included to create your own design on the bag (Pantone; only the best)
- Packaged in a multicolored Fendi box (most important part)
- Made in Italy (not China!)
- Only returnable in original condition (so don’t think to return your doodled over bag)
Popularity: 2% [?]
TrendSpark: The Adventures of a Corporate Hipster
This week Fashion Indie has been very hipster-centric, which living in New York lends itself to that I think.Well, last night, Fashion Indie’s resident editor Rebecca Alexander and I were making our way to Brooklyn (a.k.a. the hipster epicenter) when we came across a new form of hipster…..THE CORPORATE HIPSTER!
How is this possible?
See hipsters work on a fine hypocrisy. The truth is, hipsters are the yuppies of our generation. It takes money to be a hipster! Only the finest deconstructed skinny jeans for todays hipster.
Meet corporate-hipster-man. Reading today’s Wall Street Journal. Rocking a Thom Browne bootleg via the local thrift-store.
Here’s a full shot of the man. Notice the shruken-two sizes too small pants. Rebecca and I couldn’t tell if he was being ironic or just being a hipster?
(And yes that is me in the forefront, not my best photo, I look much better after a hair and makeup team has had their way with me!)
Popularity: 2% [?]
TrendSpark: Well In-Vested
We’ve been addicted to the vest look since it started cropping up on Justin Timberlake last year when he was bringing sexy back. Now the manish style has finally progressed from the streets of Williamsburg and Barnaby Street to the shelves of some of your favorite boutiques. William Rast (big surprise that Justin’s line , Endovanera, and Marlova have all released killer vests for the spring, so be a fucking follower and get one pronto. Nothing says ballbreaker better than dressing like a dude and sporting a woody. Get a vest and you’ll understand.
Photos from WWD
Popularity: 3% [?]
Neo-Wave Hipsters Rule
TrendSpark: Silver Shoes
This is a shot from Blackbook’s May issue. Love, love, love the silver shoes. Can someone get behind me on this look? Yes, it’s very Michael Jacksonesque, but something about shiny footware has always gotten my goat. And without socks, this look transcends the typical farce appeal and takes on a life of its own by breaking all rules of shoe etiquette. I’m on the search now for some silverplated stomping gear so if you’ve got some sources, please hit us up.
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White Wayfarers Are Over. So Please, Please Stop Wearing Them
Chloe Sevigny Circa 2004
I am having real difficulty with this one. Why are all you hipsters out there still rocking this look? White Wayfarers were first worn by Chloe Sevigny in 2004, more than 4 years ago. The look was forward back then, but it’s been along time since 04 when the glasses we’re hip. Now they are not. They are far from cool.
Remember indies, something is only cool as long as you can’t pick them up at Urban Outfitters for $20 bucks. You see when that happens, instantaneously the look becomes available across the country, leading to kids from Montana rocking the look as they head home to watch Napoleon Dynamite for the hundredth time. So please, please, please stop rocking white wayfarers. They make you look like a sad dejected Chloe freak and no one should have to look like that.
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Fashion F*cks: Stuffed Animal Backpacks
Fashionista has been writing about the Stella Bunny Bag for way to long and now the most dreaded sign of the apocolypse has come true. People are wearing stuffed animals in New York!!! Here’s the eye witness report:
“Yesterday, we spotted an otherwise chic woman lingering outside Cafe Gitane on Mott Street. She was an otherwise normal-looking person except that she had a dog-shaped purse under her arm. Not a fuzzy wuzzy kind of pup, more like a taxidermic-looking version that we really did mistake for a real - albeit completely stiff - dog that she for some reason was carrying on her shoulder with a strap. ”
This is the most tackiest, most ridiculous looking thing ever and I wish it ended with “and then we woke up” or “and then a car hit her, on purpose”. Cease and desist indies, cease and desist.
Popularity: 1% [?]
TrendSpark: Hand-Painted Shoes
Customization is the big trend amongst the fashion freshest. Getting things made just for you or finding one-of-a-kind vintage pieces has become a habit of even the most dedicated Gucciphiliac or Prada whore. So it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that hand-painted shoes are a growing trend amongst the most discerning fashionista.
So who’s buying these shoes and who’s making them. We have a list of some we’ve found on the web this week…
Solebox x Puma Friends & Family Signature Clyde
Very sneakerhead friendly and very limited. These were shipped out by Puma to a very secret list of folks. Expect some celebrity to be rocking these in a few weeks.
Custom Nintendo Converse
These are special order and take over two weeks to create. Of course, the result is looking like you spent a shit load on $50 Connies, but it’s totally worth it to show your love of Smash Brothers. Email Cole at COLERANZE@GMAIL.COM for details.
Colectivo 3.14
Available in Buenos Aires, these exclusive kicks can be ordered and delivered for instant cred points.
Contact 3.14showroom@gmail.com for details.
Ndeur Custom Shoes
Some of the best looking custom shoes we’ve seen can be yours from Ndeur.com. Get them. Seriously, these are awesomeness.
Popularity: 2% [?]
TrendSpark: Skirts are the New Dress
“If we’d tried to sell skirts on these pages six months ago, we would have been laughed out of our jobs. Er, nobody wants a skirt, the fashion pack would have sneered, it’s all dresses, dresses, dresses. But fashion is a fickle beast and what was last season’s best friend is now the metaphorical dog’s dinner. Put bluntly, dresses are O.U.T. and full skirts are firmly back around our hips - or, to be more precise, hanging from our waists, but more of that later.” According to Timesonline, dresses are out and skirts are back in.
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TrendSpark: Eyes Wide Shut
Want to make sure your celebrity friends/clients don’t out shine you at your own wedding? Well Estee Stanley seems to have found a way to make sure she’s the center of attention at her gala style nuptials. The stylist to the stars asked all the young starlets who made their way into her event to don Eyes Wide Shut style masks. Mary-Kate and Ashely Olsen we’re amongst those at the wedding and the masked look should definitely not expire with this one event. There’s something about Mary-Kate in a face mask that just screams cover of Vogue magazine.
Can some non-celebrities endorse this look and send photos? I think we may very well have the beginning of a trend/statement here. Let’s get on this one like Nicole Kidman in bad Stanley Kubric films.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Nothing Says Cool Like Looking Like a Fool
The Cobra Snake spotted this dude at the Digitalism Arcade. Can we please let the Stronger glasses go? It’s over like Kanye’s mom (oh, too soon).
Joking aside, why is this still around. I get when people try to be ironic by wearing shit that no one else would/should but when so many people imitate it, it’s no longer ironic, it’s just tragic. If I see another pair of these at another hipster party I will begin throwing stones, cause forunately you can’t see shit out of these things.
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Last Nights Party - Louis Vuitton In Brooklyn
Marc Jacobs & Friends (should totally be the name of his rumored reality show) partied the night away at the Brooklyn Museum to kick off its new Louis Vuitton-sponsored exhibit on artist Takashi Murakami. Jacobs finally came to his senses and got rid of the blue hair and obnoxious boy candy. His attempt to look cool with a 5AM shadow was truly failed since the dye he used on the doo could help hide his graying face pubes. Better look next time Marky. (P.S. Since you’re on the whole midlife crisis kick, it might be time to retire the green Miami Vice jacket and invest in some minor Botox around the crows feet. Also, the cool kids haven’t been wearing studs since high school.)
Check out more picts after the jump. NOW WITH FUNNIER COMMENTARY!!!
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