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Month: December 2010
When you don’t feel to dress means that you are depressed. YOU NEED A FASHION SHOWER.-Anna Dello Russo
Understanding Rap
While Jay-Z’s touted Decoded has done much to, quite literally, decode his esoteric lyrics and shed light on the gravity of his artistry, rap lyrics can still tend toward the indecipherable for the majority of the listening population. William Buckholz’s new book, Understand Rap: Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You and Your Grandma can Understand, (and also one of Cool Hunting’s top books of the year) follows in Hov’s footsteps, translating popular rap lyrics into layman’s terms.
Divided into chapters that explore ten categories from fashion to places, the book breaks down the slang and diction of lyrics like “Hockey players pagin’ me to practice on my wrist” into plain English (with so much diamond jewelry, my wrist is like an ice rink). This is reading for the whole family.
In Good Paste @ New York Times
Scrapbooking is a term that often brings to mind images of dowdy old women hunched over stickers and stencils creating familial tableaux for hours on end. Fast forward to the age of blogging when fashionistas spend hours virtually cutting and pasting to create ‘inspiration’ and ‘mood’ boards. Not so different now, are we?
While the juxtapositions may be a bit more wonky and the handicraft a bit more loose, contemporary scrapbooks serve as a succinct and stimulating source of inspiration. Check out this NYT article to see Lauren Santo Domingo’s eclectic compilations.
Turn the page and they’re biographies yet to be written, filled with furniture to buy, flowers to cultivate and men to sleep with. If you like going through other people’s medicine cabinets, scrapbooks offer similar rewards.
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Dominique Young Unique, The World is Mine
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Versus, S/S 2011, Donatella Versace and Christopher Kane
“It’s Village of the Damned,” Kane laughed backstage. “Or clones.” More like the cool girls that you always wanted to be. He said he and Versace found most of the prints in the Versus archives; they just upped the colors and added stretch mesh, as well as elongated the silhouettes, “to make it more today.” He got that right. Kane and Versace nailed the trends and the brand-heritage thing—and, most importantly, came up with some dresses that girls are going to fight each other to wear first.
Versus, S/S 2011, Donatella Versace and Christopher Kane
“It’s Village of the Damned,” Kane laughed backstage. “Or clones.” More like the cool girls that you always wanted to be. He said he and Versace found most of the prints in the Versus archives; they just upped the colors and added stretch mesh, as well as elongated the silhouettes, “to make it more today.” He got that right. Kane and Versace nailed the trends and the brand-heritage thing—and, most importantly, came up with some dresses that girls are going to fight each other to wear first.
I think the world’s gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things.-Daphne Guinness
I think the world’s gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things.-Daphne Guinness
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