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The First Wild One

The Genesis of the Motorcycle Jacket

American ingenuity is responsible for the world’s greatest creations. The cheeseburger is the best food ever, LSD is the epitome of drugs, and the internet is godlike in its scope. The same goes for a garment that has been adopted by crusty gutter punks and beer-gutted bikers alike: the leather motorcycle jacket. Full story

Bob Mackie Has Dressed Almost Everyone

And Those Who Haven't Been Clothed by Him Are Unworthy

In the pantheon of American fashion designers, Bob Mackie stands alone with his singular focus on sequined, bejeweled, and hyperbolic outfits for the world’s most ostentatious personalities. Bob has made clothes for Barbra, Whitney, Michael, and just about everyone else who has r… Full story

A Sweatshop of One's Own

An Exploration of Post-Slave-Labor American Fashion

What if the crap-manufacturing industry collapses and all of the indentured servants the US employs there are no longer able to produce cheaply manufactured garments? What atrocities would Americans be forced to wear? To illustrate this predicament, I made my own wardrobe from sc… Full story

Herb Ritter

Photos by Ben Ritter and styling by Annette Lamothe-Ramos. Full story

Because the Night

Featuring Jamie Bochert. Photos by Samantha Rapp and styling by Cristian Stroble. Full story

Employees of the Month

Above all else, James Pogue is looking for a free place to stay, if you know anyone with an apartment he can housesit for the next few years. His essays and journalism have appeared in 'n+1,' the 'Oxford American,' and the 'New Yorker.' Full story

Bulletproof Kids

In December, the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, threw the country into a deep depression, followed by a fiery debate about guns. Companies hawking children’s clothes saw sales skyrocket. One of these vendors, Amendment II, has bulletproof backpacks star… Full story

Flying American Slobs

I was hanging out in a business-class lounge at JFK airport, waiting for my flight, when I saw two women enter, one American, one Italian. Try to tell me which is which. The first looked relaxed, classy, and very rich. The second woman was wearing Uggs and gray sweatpants. Full story

Do People Really Dress Like Shit in Buffalo?

As if Buffalo, New York, didn’t have enough to worry about with its struggling economy and tons of fat people and brutal winters, last year a website called Bundle.com named the city of 260,000 the “least fashionable city in America.” Full story

L'Union Fait La Farce

Thomas Mailaender is Paris-based multimedia artist who started out doing documentation work. His past creations were focused on toying with the concept of typology and depicting "incidentally grotesque moments." This selection of images features weird food-related scenes such as Full story