Triskaidekaphobia, the morbid fear of the number 13, has led to buildings without a thirteenth floor, airports without a 13th gate, a neverending film franchise and of course, the most notorious day of the year. For your Friday the 13th viewing terror, here are 13 style superstitions to heed and fear:

1. Crack a coke mirror, get 7 years of bad blow.

2. Cross a black catwalk, fall on the runway.

3. Naomi Campbell-walking under a ladder will bring several dirty looking pebbles to you in the night.

4. Botox a day keeps the wrinkles away.

5. Listening to Lady Gaga will make you gay — as will  one drunken time in college.

6. Step on her crack, Whitney Houston will break your motherf*cking back.

7. Opening an umbrella indoors makes it rain on a whore.

8. For the lucky bride — something old, something new, something borrowed, and no pre-nup, boo.

9. Hanging Sarah Jessica Parker‘s shoe on the wall will bring good luck.

10. Never wear Uggs after Labor Day — or ever.

11. Find a tranny on her head pick her up, all night long you’ll get free shots.

12. Kissing a toad gives you warts — as will kissing a guido.

13. Garlic protects you from vampires, evil spirits and ever having a date.

Take it easy out there today kids for as a wise blind man once said, “Superstition ain’t the way.”

Looks like someone's got a monkey on their back named Tony Montana

The findings are “shocking,” at least according to one official who claims that coke use has become more widespread. This study, it should be noted, was conducted in the UK — also known as Europe’s cocaine capital two years running! (snort that, Germany) — so it’s really those British babies that need a good talking to. American babies, I’m assuming, are still getting their kicks the old-fashioned way: boobies, bottles and Binkies.  But it’s only a matter of time before the specter of hard drugs rears its ugly head stateside.

One day you’ll be at the mall, or the courthouse, or the police station, or the church/mosque/synagogue/other place of worship, going about the glamorous task of changing your child’s soiled underthings, when next thing you know: the DEA kicks down the door, rips the baby out of your arms Elian Gonzalez-style, and hauls that nascent nogoodnik off to a holding cell where its cries for “Mama” will go ruthlessly unheeded. Cut to a life spent goo-ing and gaga-ing strangers for the slightest bit of rock.

And I don’t think you want that to happen so…we need to talk about your baby’s cocaine problem. [Mirror]

Colombian women of all ages seek out the coveted hourglass figure of the Latina bombshell, in hopes of a better life and a better sense of self. Butt, at what cost? While gluteoplasty — i.e. butt implants — cost about a third of what they would in the U.S., some women risk everything, even their lives, in the pursuit of gluteal perfection. Duboc witnesses one of these surgeries for herself when a rather ravishing 45-year-old woman goes under the knife.  ”If you’re squeamish you might find it challenging to watch through til the end!” Duboc warns, and it really is harrowing/disgusting/vomit-inducing watching a doctor gingerly shove a piece of plastic into a sedated butt cheek. After all was said and done, however, Duboc admitted to feeling a bit of “ass-envy.”

Check out the first part of the doc below and check out Vice.com for more Fashion Week Internationale!

Spanish cops arrested five Columbians and a Spaniard last Tuesday after seizing nearly nine pounds/pairs of Manolo nose candy at the Barcelona airport, to the tune of $630,000 and to the chagrin of my weekend plans. I guess for $70K a pair, those damn shoes better be made out of cocaine or at the very least, gold.

The entire operaton was cooked up by a married Columbian couple living in Spain who had been under investigation for the past four months. The coke would be mixed with a liquid, turned into a paste and then molded and painted to resemble a Manolo Blahnik shoe. Then, once shipped, the shoes would be turned back into cocaine and distributed.

Meanwhile, sure it’s “illegal” and “morally-reprehensible,” but you have to admit, $70,000 is a steal for a pound of cocaine and a new pair of heels. [NY Post]

Photographer John Fisher shares his Rant on the Celebrity Boom in Fashion

What follows is an opinion in the form of a rant, a very emotional rant. As Deep Throat said during Watergate, “follow the money!”

Celebrities (and they are not celebrities, they are actresses, plain and simple) are the crack cocaine of the magazine business, and withdrawal will be painful. Let’s understand what has happened, and I repeat these are not “celebrity” covers. In the day, the fashion models WERE the celebrities, and Hollywood hated this. They were spending millions to make movies, and more people (a lot more people) could name a famous model (Cindy, Linda, Naomi, Christy, Tatyana, Claudia, et al. ……….) than could name a movie actress. How to solve this problem? Go to the big fashion magazines (one in particular) and buy the cover. The cover of the big (for the most part, American) fashion magazines are now an advertising page, sold for big money to pimp a movie. Check this out, when you see an actress  (so called celebrity) on the cover, look to see what movie is opening that month, and who is the lead actress.

If these were “celebrity covers”, driven by an intense interest in “celebrity culture”, then they would be random celebrities. But they never are (or Angelina would be on every cover!), it is always a movie actress opening a movie that month. Is this just a coincidence? Oh sure, movies cost millions to make, and more is spent on the advertising then is spent to make the movie. So it’s just a “coincidence” that Reece Witherspoon (a celebrity that everyone is just so interested in!, Like, didn’t her name come up in a conversation just this morning?) is on the cover of Vogue the same month that “Water for Elephants” is opening? For God’s sake, I picked up a “fashion” magazine several months ago and Tina Fey was on the cover. Surprise surprise, Tina was opening a movie that month (I didn’t even know she did movies).

These covers are no longer editorial content, they are paid advertising posters for the movie industry, and have nothing to do with fashion. Watch “September Issue”, the documentary about making the September issue of American Vogue. Five months out they already know who is going to be on the cover. Best picture? Best editorial? No, some uncooperative actress who refuses to even fix her hair and doesn’t fit the dress. But when the movie company pulls the money strings, the magazine jumps. Disgusting. The amount of (obvious) retouching that had to be done to get a cover shot that was even remotely acceptable was simply mind boggling (and remember, this the September Issue, the most important issue and cover of the year).

I could go on and on about how this is affecting fashion and it’s place in our popular culture, why this is a disaster pure and simple. But it is the crack cocaine of the industry, once the magazines got hooked on the revenue stream, it may be impossible to move away. Someone is leaving (and soon won’t be soon enough), when this happens it’s possible that the painful withdrawal will begin, and fashion in America will reclaim it’s covers, and it’s rightful place in our culture.

by: John Fisher

Source Benjamin Kanarek Blog

1. Crack a coke mirror, get 7 years of bad blow.

2. Cross a black catwalk, fall on the runway.

3. Naomi Campbell-walking under a ladder will bring several dirty looking pebbles to you in the night.

4. Botox a day keeps the wrinkles away.

5. Listening to Lady Gaga will make you gay — as will  one drunken time in college.

6. Step on her crack, Whitney Houston will break your motherf*cking back.

7. Opening an umbrella indoors makes it rain on a whore.

8. For the lucky bride — something old, something new, something borrowed, and no pre-nup, boo.

9. Hanging Sarah Jessica Parker‘s shoe on the wall will bring good luck.

10. Never wear Uggs after Labor Day — or ever.

11. Find a tranny on her head pick her up, all night long you’ll get free shots.

12. Kissing a toad gives you warts — as will kissing a guido.

13. Garlic protects you from vampires, evil spirits and ever having a date.

Take it easy out there today kids for as a wise blind man once said, “Superstition ain’t the way.”

The tweet read: Photo Shoot for JJ Japan! xo Lindsay

From what I can see through the burst of reflected camera flash, Lindsay looks pretty good. Totally loving the hair, or weave, or whatever it is. Keep on keeping on girl, let’s make 2011 a productive one.

LINK LOVE: Celebuzz

The latest figures report that 15% of all Britons, 18 to 34 years old, have powdered their nose at least once. Over the last year, 6.2% of 15- to 34-year olds claiming to have shaken hands with Mr. Charlie while, only a measly 4.5% of Americans in the same age range can claim to have licked the glass mirror.

Wolfgang Götz, director of the European drug agency, says that cocaine is still very popular in Europe because “[t]oo many Europeans still regard cocaine use as a relatively harmless accompaniment to a successful lifestyle.”

Well, of course it is. What else says “success” like staying up til four in the morning, blotting your bloody nostrils with tampons and talking about how much you hate your parents while listening to “Gold Dust Woman” for the 56th time?

…Or so I’m told.

LINK LOVE: Gawker

By placing vintage medicine labels on the finest cotton shirts, American Apothecary is commenting on how our perceptions of these and other once legal but now taboo substances have drastically changed over the last 100 years.

Our objective is to supply clothing with a purpose; and our purpose is to urge the public to TAKE A CLOSER LOOK at what they are prescribed to put in their bodies, $59.

Shop A-APOTHECARY and wear one of these bizarre tees that every one of the FashionIndie members wear proudly!

Who thinks Lindsey Lohan‘s income will double now? HAHAHA not me.

LINK LOVE: Gawker

What lessons can we learn from Hilton’s fiasco? Don’t buy the ugliest Chanel bag on the market? Don’t let your cocaine baggie fall out of your purse then pretend the bag isn’t yours? At least she’s not banned from the Hilton Las Vegas. You go girlfriend!

LINK LOVE: Fashionista

Prince Peter‘s line of tees consist of Rock ‘n Roll art photography and graphic design. A real fashion statement, the brand has been gaining attention for their latest video lookbook which features very pretty rockers rioting around town, snorting nose candy and sexing it up. A true rock love story. Check out the collection here. Video after the jump.

Girl can’t even be a good drug mule. She was spotted somewhere in Hollywood with a killer amount of white powder escaping her feet. Obviously, looks like Columbian Booger Sugar, but I’m sure there will be a statement from the Lindsay’s publicist (does she still have one?) that it was only baby powder.

Wow, I totally predicted this about six months ago when I first heard she was pregnant but everyone in the office called me racist and I was all like, that’s not racist, he’s probably some fucking Jay Z wanna be drug dealer, who else would manage to get a 19 year old pregnant, and people were like you can’t say that though, and I was all like fuck that, I do what I want, and their all like Saynt you sound like a ghetto hoodrat, and I did a triple snap in their faces and was all like AND WHAT?!?

Anyway, her baby daddy is off to jail for 3 years for coke dealing, big surprise…

LINK LOVE: UK SUN

Image via ICYDK

Let this be a lesson to all you aspiring models out there. You can’t maintain that svelt figure into your 30s without proper diet, excersise, and daily lines of blow off of Pete Doherty’s babyshambles.

LINK LOVE: Daily Mail

There’s a new coke in town. It’s laced with stuff that will make you really high, then kill you. Wall Street, Washington and Santos Party House, you’ve been warned.

LINK LOVE: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/77u8TROreh4/new-coke-deadlier-than-ever

Listen up fashionistas, shit stains are out, coke stains are IN!!!!

Seriously, what the hell Star Magazine. Lindsay Lohan has what appears to be a booger or glare from the flashing paparazzi that’s all up in her grill and you instantly assume that she’s HOPELESS!!! Christo that’s ridiculous. I wish the curse of celebrity upon no one, not even my worst enemy (you know who you are…).

So weird one of the day. Kurt Cobain’s ashes were stolen (also see snorted in a line of memorial coke) from Courtney Love’s home. The ashes were in some teddy bear Love had at her house. Great job on losing a rock legend, Love, now if only we can lose you.

N.E.R.D. nose what you’re doing in the bathroom ladies. Well, actually everyone nose what you’re doing in there. Seriously, you have to remember to wipe your nose when you come out of there. This looks like every party I’ve ever been to in New York. I’m really glad rappers are stepping away from the normal big booty, crazy shaking videos and showing the world what the scene in the city actually looks like. Sweaty, coke filled, and slutty.