Features

It’s 7am and it’s time to get dressed for work. You shower, shave, and put on your underwear. Now, what to wear exactly? Don’t reach for the boring navy suit, instead grab your skirt. 

Men’s skirts and kilts are featured in the Autumn/Winter 2010-11 lines for both Jean Paul Gaultier and Givenchy.  It’s the latest trend in men’s fashion and it’s telling of a larger movement in men’s wear, androgyny. You may be thinking that a blurred gende...

Doe-eyed beauty Whitney Port reveals a yet unseen side to the world, channeling the seductive glamour of '70s icon Jerry Hall.

The 25-year-old wears several hats behind the set of MTV's The City. In 2008, she launched a fashion line, Whitney Eve, which exudes the same girlish elegance definitive of her personal aesthetic. Her Spring 2010 line offers staple pieces in a wide selection of soft flowing chiffons, metallic fabrics and lace. Feminine ...

Artist Marco Evaristti uses fashion
(and the color pink)
to get political.

For Chilean-Danish artist Marco Evaristti, pink is a powerful color. “It seems to connote everything that is not serious and girlish,” he explains. “But at the same time, it is one of the colors that symbolizes the ’70s’ slogans of peace, love and understanding, which are serious values — but ones that are often thought of as lovey-dovey and hippy-like!” This, coming from th...

 

Vintage stores everywhere have tried to capture what Beacon’s Closet masters everyday

Vintage stores everywhere have tried to capture what Beacon’s Closet masters everyday—a strong reputation and the best of the best collection. The trade vintage plus modern clothing shop, founded by Carrie Peterson, first opened its doors in Brooklyn’s trendy Williamsburg in 1997. Originally, Beacon’s Closet housed 900 square feet of fabulousness. Toda...