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How To Look Hipster

Living in the Greenwich Village/ SoHo area never ceases to amaze me. Amazing speciality boutiques line the cobblestone streets. Eclectic art galleries display their masterpieces through open windows. The aroma of diverse coffee beans engulf the air around you. Out of everything the area has to offer, I am particularly intrigued by the people. But let it be known, just because you are in an edgy part of the city doesn’t mean you can escape the increasingly mainstream “hipster” trend. Hipsters are everywhere, the contemporary subculture who takes it upon themselves to deem what is “cool” in fashion and free time. Well, I hate to break it to them, but hipsters wouldn’t know “cool” if it bit them on the ass. Here are the elements of a hipster…in moderation, pretty neat…together, hipster scum: 

 

 

 

Here’s a few more tips if you’re headed down a path of hipster hell. Carry around a small notebook. That way, people will know you are a thoughtful soul with a knack for English prose. Attend art museums. Stare at paintings with your jaw gaping wide open, even if you don’t understand the artist’s aesthetic. Remember, being hipster is all about image. If you look hipster cool, then you are hipster cool. So wear your skinny jeans. Hide the bags under your eyes with enormous dorky glasses. Pretend you are infatuated with art and the visual beauties this world has to offer. Hipsters are actors…and they’re pretty damn bad at it. 

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Stuff Fashion Peeps Like: It Girls

So Nylon recently came out with a list of things to do if you want to be an “It Girl” for their October issue dedicated to the subject. Among the options, dating a rocker, being under 20 years old, and being the spawn of a celebrity made the list according to Jezebel. We’ve got our own thoughts on what it takes to be an “It Girl” but we must warn all that accomplishing all these might just get you an STD and a trip to rehab.

1. Crave a Shit Load of Attention. It’s the attention your parents never gave you cause they were too busy sniffing coke off of Fareah Fawcett’s ass during your quarterly P.T.A meetings. It’s the attention you crave when you hit the strip without a pair of coochy covers on. It’s the attention that makes you look sad enough to give up a “make me feel good” fuck to the first guy who looks your way. Believe me, guys are looking.

2. Suck Cock. Actually Suck a Shit Load of Cock. Like “Porn Star Trying To Break A Guinness World Record” Level Cock Sucking. Former geeky high school boys will pay attention to you if you do. The same boys who have no social life and a shit load of time to snap photos of people (rather than actually party with them) at clubs. The same boys who know HTML and aren’t afraid to blog it. The same boys who will upload your photos making you an “It Girl”. Doing so will guarantee Cory Kennedy fame within two face blasts. Be sure to avert your eyes.

3. Drink. A Lot. Drunk chicks dance, are loud as fuck, and get noticed at clubs. You should reek of alcohol every morning and wake up with random sploodge in your hair from all the photographers you blew the night before. (See tip number 2)

4. While You’re Drinking Snort Some Coke. Or Ecstasy. Or Heroin. Or Pixie Sticks. Seriously, drugs make you really, really, really cool. If you’ve been to rehab and you aren’t even old enough to vote you’re on the right track.

5. Look Like Jailbait. Or Better Yet, Be Jailbait. Underage girls get paparazzi and hipster photographers hotter than a 70% off sale at Urban Outfitters. Wax off all signs of pubescent hair and be sure to be slutty enough to get their attention but not slutty enough to seem like you know what your doing. A woman who’s actually capable of seducing someone freaks hipster photographers out and they’ll just blow their load before they snap your photo.

6. Stalk Dov Charney, Merlin Bronques, Cobrasnake or any other hipster with a camera then repeat steps 1 -5.

7. Shop, Work, and/or Pick Up Your Drug Supply from American Apparel. Seriously.

8. You + A Celebrity’s Dong + Video Camera with Night Vision = Instant “It Girl” Status.

9. Don’t Weigh More Than The Thinner Olsen. Better yet, acquire an eating disorder like bulemia, anorexia, or that weird one from Sex and the City where the guy chews food but doesn’t actually swallow it. It Girls must be a size two or zero in order to get noticed and slip in and out of prison bars when their arrested for drunk driving/drug possession/smuggling Canadians across the US border.

10. Be White. Seriously.

11. Attempt To Be Something More Than An Over-Glorified Attention Whore. Consider modeling, becoming a DJ, or creating a t-shirt line. All require absolutely no skill whatsoever and will guarantee you get even more attention.

12. Skip The Higher Education Route. It Girls don’t need to be smart. They just need to be dumb enough to follow all these rules to a tee. Skip the community college application (did you really think NYU is an option when the web is littered with your half-coked out party images?) and just enroll in the school of hard cocks knocks.

13. Realize That There Is Only ONE Media Outlet That Gives A Fuck About You. Seriously, if it wasn’t for them, you wouldn’t exist so be sure to bend over backwards to appear on their Internet TV shows, support their yard sales, and pick up their dry cleaning while your at it.

14. Date Pete Doherty. Works everytime.

15. If All Else Fails There’s Always Lesbianism. It worked for Lindsay and it can work for you.

P.S. Before you all start claiming that I’m a woman hating, misogynistic, asshole let me state first and foremost that I am. If women want to accept a title that praises them for doing nothing more than dressing cute and getting photographed than they deserve to be shit on. If you truly believe in women’s empowerment then don’t support publications that insist on placing coked out, drunk whores on their covers, calling them “It Girls” or deeming their turds worthy of your attention. Let’s get real ladies.

On a side, if any of you want to be deemed “It Girls” by Fashion Indie, send us your photos and a small sentence on what the fuck you’ve done lately that makes you interesting. Dressing well helps (we are a fashion blog) but isn’t necessary. We’re looking for accomplishments like “Didn’t Drop Out of College”, “Just Hosted a Massively Cool Event”, or “Just Found a Cure for Male Pattern Pubic Baldness”. Send them to saynt@fashionindie.com and we’ll feauture you on the site.

Images from Gawker, Refinery29, and Nylon.

F*ck Ups: American Apparel Halloween Costumes

I know I’ve been bitching about unoriginal Halloween costumes a lot, but ’tis the season to be judgmental. Before I go completely haywire, let me say that I have a soft spot for Dov Charney’s ridiculous metallic leggings and ultra comfortable dresses. What can I say, I’ve fallen into the trap. But I certainly don’t wear both together; it’s too much.

If you buy all of the pieces for your Halloween costume at one store, it probably sucks. Unless you go as my previous suggestion, garbage, all the components of a well thought out, creative costume wouldn’t be found in one place. Frankly, I don’t know if the peeps over at American Apparel are making a sick joke on their Web site, but I am positive most of the costumes look gross and overpriced. Who wants to drop $80 on a white tee and jeans that is only getting splattered with paint? And would you really buy a nude unitard for $32 and draw pubes all over it? Didn’t think so. If your costume requires a piece from this colorful outpost, by all means, go for it! But if buying an entire costume there is all you can come up with, you need to exercise your right brain.

What do Claire Danes, Ashton Kutcher and Audrey Hepburn Have in Common?

They’ve all stared in some pretty horrendous GAP ads. We’ve collected thirty of our favorite ads and placed them on Don’tAdvertiserHere.com for your viewing pleasure. Whether it’s the limited release Spike Jonze directed ad in which the GAP gets trashed or the somber Mellow Yellow ads or the pre-Pirates Orlando Bloom spot, they’re all on. While watching you’ll quickly realized why you hated the GAP and come to terms with American Apparel’s rise to pornographic fame.

Here’s are four of our least favorites…

Ashton, Zooey, Jay and Scarlett love bike riding for the GAP.

A never aired ad featuring a dancing Laura Prepon

Carrie Bradshaw and Merlin Bronques for the GAP?

QUITE POSSIBLY THE WORST AD EVER!!!! I hate vests because of this…

Designer Discovery: De La Sade

Started by the design duo of Gia and Amanda Le Sade (sisters via adoption) from Los Angeles, De La Sade is a leggings company that shows off just what it’s like to be in the LA party scene. The two manage to put a creative twist on a clothing piece that is sometimes obnoxiously over done. Straying from the boringness that is American Apparel, De La Sade offers leggings in neon colors and patterns, as well as practical colors with unique textures. As all leggings are, De La Sade answers the cry from the FashionistOs (guys) by offering large enough sizes to make them completely unisex. I purchased my first pair of leggings last week and they rule, I’m thinking of making my next pair some De La Sade jams!

For more on De La Sade you’ll have to check out their Myspace for now, but I have been assured that a website is to be seen in the very near future.