INDIE REWIND: The 10 Greatest Fashion Moments in Music History

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Music and fashion have always seemed to go hand in hand; one inspiring the other, one amplified by the other, one blatantly stealing from the other, etc.  As rock and roll became a lifestyle and MTV invaded the airwaves, the line between music and fashion began to all but disappear. That is in large part thanks to these 10 performances, albums, songs, music videos — moments in pop history — that forever defined and redefined the relationship between music and fashion.

V Mag Star Spangles Ke$ha, Ashton Kutcher Pulls a Lagerfeld and Macy’s Spreads Fleas

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

- FHM is apparently still around and has crowned UK sex tape enthusiast/X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos the Sexiest Woman in the World. [Huff Po]

- V Magazine dived into the dumpster America is currently wading through where they found Ke$ha and threw her on the cover of its “Americana Issue.” [WOWWOW.ME]

MALE MODEL HUMPDAY: Video Bros

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Christie Brinkley was Billy Joel‘s “Uptown Girl.” Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington helped George Michael declare his “Freedom.” And Helena Christensen played Chris Isaak‘s “Wicked Game,” as directed by the legendary Herb Ritts. Models have been appearing in music videos nearly as long as the form has been alive, lest we forget Calvin Klein brief-fillers  Djimon Hounsou and Antonio Sabato, Jr. in Janet Jackson‘s “Love Will Never Do (Without You),” also directed by Ritts. So in honor of our May month of music, Male Model Humpday takes a look at the hunky men making beautiful music…videos.

Vogue Italia Goes to the Prom, Nicki Minaj’s Wardrobe Malfunction and ABC Wants Madonna to Cover Up

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

- The Quaker on the Quaker Oats box, Larry to his friends, got his hair did in yet another brand makeover. [WSJ]

- And speaking of makeovers, Burger King might be onto something with this stunner. [Buzzfeed]

- Vogue Italia‘s April cover celebrates prom looks and…masks. [Fashion Gone Rogue]

Extreme Beauty: Body Painting [NSFW]

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

We play up our eyes and lips, darken our eyebrows and add shimmer to our cheeks when we want to experiment with makeup. But how often do you decide to paint clothing on your body instead of actually wearing it out? The notion may seem foreign, but we’ve all seen it at some point in our lives. But these body painters we’ve stumbled upon aren’t your run of the mill hippy festival artists. Take a look at their work, and you’ll see how extremely intricate this craft can be.

Plus Model Magazine and Fashion’s Obsession with Unrealistic Body Image

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

The weight, dress size and health of models have always been hot-button topics, both in and out of the fashion industry. While runways are slowly shying away from the ultra-thin, heroin chic craze that dominated the late-90s and resurfaced in the mid-00s with all those pale, starving girls from Eastern Europe, and the CFDA has enacted initiatives to ensure the health and safety of models, there is still a large disparity between the average woman and what she sees when opens up the pages of Vogue. And with fashion, the trend simply trickles down to the rest of society. Just take a look at the skeletons on this Sunday’s Golden Globes red carpet. Bombarded with these images on a daily basis, how can impressionable young girls and women in general have a healthy body image? Plus Model Magazine decided to address this issue head-on with an editorial featuring Katya Zharkova and a handful of disturbing factoids.

INDIE REWIND: The 10 Greatest Fashion Films

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

The drama of the business, the transcendent beauty of the clothes, and the backstabbing bitchery of the fashion world have always been popular subjects in film.  Whether it’s a satanic editor with a taste for Italian couture, a young fashionista dining with diamonds, or a group of disenfranchised queens hoping to set the City of Lights ablaze, these 10 movies are the greatest odes to fashion.

MALE MODEL HUMPDAY: Vintage Versace, Va-Va-Va-Voom!! [NSFW]

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

In celebration of the Versace x H&M collection’s unveiling this week, Male Model Humpday brings you classic Versace ads from the 80s and 90s. Greats Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts and Bruce Weber captured a gaggle of supers including Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, and Stephanie Seymour accompanied by a herd of naked male models, including world’s first super-male-model, Marcus Schenkenberg. Enjoy this Humpday with a trip through Versace’s proud and storied legacy of gratuitous male nudity.

Christy Turlington for L’Officiel Paris

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

It’s a very super morning as Christy Turlington covers L’Officiel Paris this month, shot by Guy Aroch with styling by Barbara Loison. Are supermodels back? Some of them never left to begin with.

INDIE REWIND: The Greatest Supermodels of the 80s (and Early 90s)

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

When you think of “supermodel,” you can’t help but think of The Big 3. Or The Super Six. Or my favorite grouping, The Legion of Doom. Spawned from the decadence of the 80s, these gals became more than supermodels — they became divas. From Linda Evangelista refusing to wake up for less than $10,000 a day to the phone-throwing, blood diamond-wearing, catwalking behemoth known as Naomi Campbell, there have never and will never be supermodels the likes of these ladies. Yet their dominance over the zeitgeist was short-lived as they were replaced in the mid-90s by a series of bland waifs whose personalities would not detract from the clothes, i.e. they got knocked from their high horse. But you can’t keep a good super down and they are as in demand today as they were 25 years ago.