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INDIE REWIND: A Lesson in Opulence — 5 Profiles in Fabulous

Lester Brathwaite — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:53:19 +0000

Fashion is as famous for its outsized personalities as its outsized skirts. The drama of a neckline is birthed — loudly, and often involving an unceremonious firing — by a complicated genius no one could hope to understand…let alone care to try to understand. Below are five profiles in the kind of batshit crazy you just can’t teach. This elegance is learned, kids.

How to Dress for a Gallery Opening

Lester Brathwaite — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:12:54 +0000

As part of our “Art, Architecutre and Design” month, we at FashionIndie want to keep you culturally stimulated. But what good is cultural stimulation if you’re wardrobe leaves you limp? So combining the best of both worlds, here’s a handy dandy’s guide to some interesting exhibits opening around the city and what to wear to them.

For the Pretentious Art Snob: You’ve been there, done that, own everything and everyone so even the most avant garde installations leave you bored. But that doesn’t mean you have anything else to do.

A Lesson in Opulence: 5 Profiles in Fabulous

Lester Brathwaite — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:32:44 +0000

Fashion is as famous for its outsized personalities as its outsized skirts. The drama of a neckline is birthed —loudly and often accompanied by an unceremonious firing—by the drama of a genius no one could hope to understand…let alone care to try. Below are five profiles in the kind of batshit crazy you just can’t teach. This elegance is learned, kids.

“His look is an extremely conscious metaphor for his philosophy of fashion and life: Here, watch as I bring together the old, in my tall eighteenth-century collar and bizarre powdered hair, with the new, as seen in my ponytail and $2,500 Agatha leather pants, ‘the most expensive leather pants in the world,’ he declares, with a laugh exactly like Count Chocula’s in its length and ridiculousness.”

—on Karl Lagerfeld and how to craft a professional image
from Karl Lagerfeld, Boy Prince of Fashion, Vanessa Grigoriadis

Courtney Love Submitting Work to The New Yorker

Rebecca Alexander — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:59:10 +0000

Hollywood’s oldest trainwreck Courtney Love is looking to add another facet to her already shining career. Author.

“I have to get it together and finish this damn story that The New Yorker, by the way, does not know is coming. They may reject me. But I want to be published. It’s time—I’m 46.”

—Courtney Love on her new writing career. Can’t wait to read that one! [Newser]

COVER: The New Yorker Tributes Alexander McQueen

Rebecca Alexander — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:24:42 +0000

The New Yorker‘s style issue is out today, the cover that pays homage to late designer Alexander McQueen.

LINK LOVE: The Cut via NYer

PRINT IS DEAD: Conde Nast To Cut Back!!!

Hillary Frazier — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:26:50 +0000

John Koblin from the New York Observer talked to insiders from McKinsey that told him the news about Conde Nast’s cut backs:

Budget reductions of around 25% at Details, Traveler, Glamour, Gourmet, and Teen Vogue.
Unknown budget cuts at the rest of the Conde mags—except the New Yorker, which is escaping unscathed, according to the NYO.
The various mag editors get to determine how to achieve their budget cuts.
No immediate magazine closures are predicted, but some of the weaker titles may reduce their frequency.
Layoffs are coming.

I’m going to say it again…Print is DEAD!!

LINK LOVE: Gawker