VICE FASHION

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 reached first-name-only status. Full story

Wavy Spice

Valerie Phillips shoots Harlem's new rap queenpin, with styling by Bertie Brandes and Charlotte Roberts. 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

Li'l Thinks

Fashion in the 90s

The 90s were perfect. This isn’t to privilege one set of nostalgics over another; the 1990s reverence felt by three small, semidiscrete generations (X, Y, Millennial) is, of course, no different from anyone else’s nostalgia for what came before, but seriously, the 90s were good f… Full story

Herb Ritter

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

The Great Lost Expedition Brand

A Conversation with Willis & Geiger's Burt Avedon

In 1903, during an Arctic mineral-hunting expedition, an geologist by the name of Ben Willis discovered that most clothing doesn’t hold up in 100 mph winds and -60 °F temperatures. Ben returned to New York and started designing garments that could withstand the frozen tundra from… Full story

Please Stop Making Those Ironic Fashion T-Shirts

If you still think it's funny to make fun of Chanel or Maison Martin Margiela with a forced pun embroidered poorly on a beanie or T, maybe it's time you get an adult sense of humor. These brand rips are getting dry, and they look like crap anyway. Full story

Because the Night

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

Chop, Drop, and Roll

The Black Barbershop Is an American Institution

The black barbershop is one of the last American sanctuaries and an American tradition. It’s where you go to catch up on the news, debate about butts, play the numbers, watch the game, buy stolen sneakers from a hustler or bean pies from a black Muslim, and generally just shoot t… 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

Getting Fresh with Wilbert

The Evolution of Patrik Ervell

It has been a thrill for me to watch menswear designer Patrik Ervell as he continues to develop his aesthetic every season. I sat down with him in his apartment to chat about about his early days in the fashion industry, his latest collection, and why being a tech nerd works for Full story

Colts and Fillies

Photos and styling by Olivia Bee. 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

The A-Z's of New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013

Now that the festivities are over and we've recovered from alcohol poisoning, here is our definitive breakdown of all the collections, trends, dickwads, and soul-sucking industry practices that we discovered during the fall/winter presentations at NYFW 2013. Full story