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VICE's New York Fashion Week Photo Blog

New York Fashion Week is a peculiar happening filled with angry PR people, overworked baristas, poor people masquerading as the rich, and rich people masquerading as the poor. Basically, it's a mindfuck that can't be described by words, so instead here are some pictures. Full story

Zak Loves Mandy

And They’ll Keep Making Art and Porn Until One of Them Dies

Last year, porn star Mandy Morbid was diagnosed with Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. But through all of Mandy’s hardships, Zak Smith has never left her side. I talked with the couple about their love and how it exists so gracefully in a world of porn, art, and disease. Full story

Here She Is, Miss Holocaust Survivor 2012

Everyone loves Holocaust survivors and beauty pageants, so why hasn’t someone combined the two? That was the exact thought of Israeli charity Yad Ezer L’Haver (“Helping Hand”), which in late June held a competition in Haifa to crown a Miss Holocaust Survivor 2012. Full story

Amphetamine Logic

Coke Sex for Teen Sluts

Sometimes when a dick is inside me I can’t help but think about my family. I know that sounds totally gross, but I don’t mean it in, like, an incestuous way. My dad never fucked me or anything. I think it has more to do with guilt, you know, or I’m ashamed, for whatever nutty rea… Full story

Cat Marnell Does Not Give a Shit

XO Jane's beauty editor Cat Marnell talks drugs, beauty, and not being into "real girls." Full story

My Lip Gloss Be Poppin' Like a 12-Year-Old Virgin

I kind of miss make-up that smells and tastes like a candy tampon. Full story

The 'I'm So Beautiful' Backlash

In yesterday's VICE, Samantha Sick claimed other women loathe her for being too attractive. It provoked a worldwide internet storm. Here she says: "This bile just proves I'm right." Full story

'There Are Downsides to Looking This Pretty': Why Women Hate Me for Being Beautiful

The 'Daily Mail' aren't the only ones with impossibly attractive writers. Full story

Street Wear

A Wig and Some Makeup Can Still Trick Canadian Cops

As a part-time harm-reduction worker based in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver, Canada, I spend a couple days each week chatting with hundreds of the approximately 18,000 addicts and marginalized people crammed into the area. Full story

The Cholombians

Sticky Sideburns and Stoner Cumbia in Northern Mexico

A small brothel and vendors selling pirated DVDs, homemade porn, and fake Polo shirts surround “The Colombian Embassy” in Monterrey. Full story