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CITY, CULTURE / February 9 2012 12:32 PM

INDIE REWIND: Open Bar Etiquette

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With New York Fashion Week comes an endless array of open bars from sun up til sun down…to sun up again when you find yourself face down in the Meatpacking District drooling on a cobblestone…draped in nothing but a fur, a horse hoof print on your Prada bag and a distant feeling of regret creeping closer by sobering minute. So have fun kids and make the most of these gifts from the alcohol sponsorship gods.  From the  Indie Achives: Open Bar Etiquette.

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FASHION / February 7 2012 3:32 PM

10 Essentials Elements for (an Unseasonably Warm) New York Fashion Week

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Twice a year, we at FashionIndie raid, ransack and rape our closets in an effort to  put together a compelling look that will have all other fashionistas wishing they had stayed the eff home. In September, the last vestiges of summer make it slightly easier to turn it proverbially out, but February usually requires a lot of layering and the outfit often has to be cruelly covered up to stave off the ravages of winter. This  New York Fashion Week, however, the winter has been suspiciously mild. Temperatures have barely dipped below freezing and nary a snow flake has dropped in weeks. So let’s just ignore our impending doom thanks to the totally buzz-killing reality of global warming and instead focus on what matters: dressing for the Tents. Here are 10 staples — 5 for the guys and 5 for the gals, but feel free to mix and match since we actively don’t subscribe to gender constructs — for NYFW. 

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FASHION, SPREAD'EM / February 3 2012 11:17 AM

Karlie Kloss Steps Out a Lady In Vogue

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We’ve been laboring under the impression that Karlie Kloss had her coming-of-aging party in that naked yet demure Allure spread by Mario Testino. Now, months later for March 2012 Vogue, she emerges as a lady. Fully attired in the most ladylike of looks. Swathed in Chanel, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Moschino Cheap & Chic ($665 for a sequined cardi – neither that cheap nor chic… I digress), and some other of Queen Anna Wintour‘s all time favorite advertisers designers, Karlie looks like the proper woman of the house. Strong. Do you see those poses? She’s matrixing in stilettos, her body is practically horizontal in some, captured moving through space on an arched foot. It’s called WERQ.

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FASHION, PLAYLIST / February 2 2012 6:38 PM

THE DAILY GASP: Prada Film Goes Grease Lightening In a Glam Gas Station Stare Down

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Miuccia Prada has greased her lightening for the go. In fire bolt shoes and heartbreakingly ornate Susie Homewrecker dresses, the Prada Spring 2012 campaign video, shot by Steven Meisel,  is a proper glare-down at the gas station. In effects like lacquered tail light frames and appliqués of dimensional lace, they pursed their deep red lips and charged at it like an old fashion drag race (and not entirely unlike RuPaul’s, because bitches are fierce). Bejeweled along collars, engines revving at the shoes, they’re off! We win.

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CELEBULITE, FASHION / January 24 2012 5:33 PM

Prada’s 24 Hour Museum Opens Tonight

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And you better hurry because Prada‘s latest venture means exactly what it says. Designed by Francesco Vezzoli with AMO, the museum opens tonight in Paris at the Palais d’Inéna and will close tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. AMO’s instillation for “24h Museum” is separated into three sections, each inspired by a different type of museum space. Including historic, contemporary and forgotten, Vezzoli is using the divisions to create a “non-exisistent” museum where he attributes allure of contemporary divas to that of classical sculptures. “They are my icons turned into sculptures and placed on marble pedestals,” Vezzoli said.

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NEWS / January 18 2012 7:16 AM

Backpedalling with Prada: Brand Insists Miuccia’s Met Exhibit Comments “Taken Out of Context”

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The Elsa Schiaparelli-Miuccia Prada Costume Institute exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is still months away, but why not get the buzz rolling early on? Backstage after her celebrity-filled men’s show in Milan, Prada appeared not too enthused about the upcoming exhibit, saying: ”It’s too formal. They are focused on similarities, comparing feather with feather, ethnic with ethnic, but they are not taking into consideration that we are talking about two different eras, and that [Schiaparelli and I] are total opposite. I told them, but they don’t care.” Now, her namesake label claims these comments were “taken out of context.”

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