The Fashion Issue 2014
The Fashion Police
Looks like you're in violation of fashion code 0382: wearing a Kermit the Frog collar after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Fashion Comes to the Outback
In April, the first-ever Australian Indigenous Fashion Week will be held in Sydney. It's the brainchild Krystal Perkins, a marketing executive who hopes to bring Aboriginal art to a wider audience and teach indigenous women and girls to become models
Style and Shopping as a Means of Expression and Self-Realization
Girls and women (it feels so corny to consider girls and women as these separate classes of experience, right?) have, more so than guys and to our great benefit, style and shopping as a means of expression and self-realization.
Assaad Awad’s Special-Order Bondage Gear
The Lebanese-born designer has worked with Lady Gaga and Madonna, but he also crafts bondage gear for a less famous and much odder private clientele.
The Many Reasons Middle Eastern Women Wear Hijabs
Many women in Middle Eastern countries prefer to wear some kind of religious head covering, but that doesn't mean that they want to suppress their sexuality or that they're oppressed by men.
Gender Benders - Boys Dressed as Girls and Girls Dressed as Boys
Photos by Richard Kern and styling by Miyako Bellizzi.
In Defense of Hairy Women - Searching for a Fair Standard of Beauty
My friend Kevin, who majored in philosophy at Berkeley and is now a civil rights lawyer, and who supports all sorts of good causes (economic equality, gun control, gay marriage, Palestinian statehood, shade-grown coffee), yelled at me the other day for...
24 Hours in Derek Jeter’s Underwear
The feeling was nice—my dick and balls were at perfect equilibrium. I couldn’t feel them hanging down as they usually did, but neither could I feel anything hoisting them up. My man-parts were literally levitating.
Sisters - Nuns Decked out in Latex and Lace
Photos by Annette Lamothe-Ramos and styling by Miyako Bellizzi and Annette Lamothe-Ramos.
Music Reviews
These guys are my friends, so I’m sure some queef huffer in the comments is going to accuse me of using my position as best music journalist in the world to logroll for buddies again.
Fashion and/or Sex - A Primer in the History of Looking the Part
Sex isn’t about fashion. Fashion isn’t about sex. If fashion were about sex, models would twerk down the runway in fashion editors’ faces and twirl around poles for the photographers.