Gareth Pugh: The Best of Both Worlds Science Fiction & Costume Drama

Being in a relationship, I can tell you one thing about renting movies. I’ll turn my nose to any random sci-fi action movie, and Rocky well veto any costume drama. In the past year of my relationship, these genres have become cinematic dead zones.
While I know everyone and their mother has been posting about Gareth [...]

Mad Men, Mad Women

Please forgive me for being slow on the uptake when it comes to television. Blame the Atlantic, but I’ve only recently been able to get my hands on Mad Men… For the past few days I’ve been stuck in bed with the flu, and in my attempts to recuperate, I’ve watched every single episode of [...]

Types of Common Rogue

Hester Prynne may have worn the Scarlet Letter upon her bosom, but these days we don’t have conspicuous conventions to label our shameful ways. Some old college mates of mine in London, Society of Revisionist Typographers, ie, SORT Design have printed up with these lovely letterpress patches. Each patch printed on canvas revisits old Victorian [...]

Night Bloomers

Walking around the city at night is one of my favorite things. The lights, the quiet sidewalks, the lack of store keepers staring at you for taking pictures of their merchandise without asking permission. Heh… I detest asking for permission. The other night we were walking down Maxmillianstrasse in Munich where all the big designers [...]

The Opulent Ostertag

One of the rising stars of German fashion, Marcel Ostertag, still in his 20’s is certainly a force to be reckoned with. Producing entire 50 piece collections on his own, hard labor, doesn’t come without benefits, after all he is the winner of the Karstadt New Generation Award during Berlin Fashion Week, this is only [...]

Old Bones

Today, I spent the majority of the day walking around…. window shopping, checking out the scenes, looking for visual inspiration. As a native Californian, the age of the city the old churches and antique stores.
I don’t think I’ll ever get over neck ruffles, even these medieval church sculptures inspire…

Bone to pick
The antique jeweler Horst Fuchs [...]

Messy Hair, on purpose…

Messy Hair, on purpose…
As happy as I am to see more natural hair on the rise (thank you Mary Kate Olsen), you know hair that is not particularly straight, or curly, nor perfectly shiny and brushed. I’m even more intrigued by messy big hair, done up on purpose. Ratted hair has always been seen on [...]

5 Ways Peplum

An optimist will make constraints an opportunity for creativity. I’m not going to lie, lately I’ve been experiencing some economic restraints, and shopping a couple of times a week isn’t really something I can do at the moment. But looking back on it, my shopping habits were kind of crazy, buying new stuff, maybe wearing [...]

Mustache Envy

I’ve had a long, sick fascination with mustaches. It all began at the cinema with Gangs of New York, where I realized I was strangely attracted to Daniel Day Lewis. He’s a great actor, don’t get me wrong, I loved him in every movie, but attracted? No… and when I saw him being interviewed, all [...]

State of Grace

There are few people as powerfully unique as Grace Jones. Beautiful, eccentric and iconic, it’s amazing to see how after all these years, I’ve come to truly admire her sense of style. Perhaps we’re just now starting to catch up to her, but I remember being just absolutely shocked by the way she would wear [...]