VICE Style's Week in Tidbits

While we at VICE Style struggle to bring you in-depth articles about prostitute-managed fashion labels in Sao Paulo, transvestites wearing bikinis made out of rats, Japanese kids who inject bagels into their faces and photo shoots set amongst suburban tower blocks in Russia, deep down we know that, really, all you want is quick, 30-second hits of dumb, weird, funny fashion news. That's why we created Tidbits, our frequently updated aggregator of all the dumbest, weirdest and funniest stuff we see, watch, hear or read on the fashion part of the internet. Here are this week's best.

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"HOT BOOTIES" MICROWAVABLE SHOES

You know fashion has reached a new low when you're encouraged to microwave the slippers being sold at you. I'm not sold on the notion that intentionally making a piece of clothing moist and warm somehow makes it better, especially footwear (though thinking about it, walking around all day on an inch of fungus would be kind of comfy).

GOTHS UP TREES

Aside from having possibly the best name for a blog I've seen for months – concise, accurate, and funny – Goths Up Trees is the perfect resource for that twinge you get every now and then to see people who take themselves too seriously posing in foliage. It's also a great place to keep track of what's hot in the goth world right now, seeing as trees are clearly the go-to spot when they feel like indulging in a little fashion shoot, meaning you learn stuff like, "trousers with loads of metal and straps on them are still big news", and "goths have definitely got way sluttier than they were when I was 14".

OOOH, SWISH IN 2000AD

Weirdly, although this film EVE, AD 2000! totally fails at predicting the future of street fashion in the year 2000, it seems to have done a hell of a job predicting the average pop star's wardrobe choices in 2011. I'm off to buy some sweets, the bitches go crazy for that shit.

GONZO GALLIANO

Dior fired John Galliano last year for his alcohol-fuelled anti-Semitic rant in a Paris café and took over the management of his Galliano brand because they obviously didn't want an obnoxious, paranoid drunk representing them, even if it is named after him. In either a genius piece of contradictory advertising, or just because he's an easy figure to instantly make your company look cool, Galliano have dressed a model up exactly like Hunter S. Thompson, another famed obnoxious, paranoid drunk, for their SS12 campaign. I guess the moral here is that it's totally cool to be wasted all the time, as long as you don't pick on the Jews.

ALL BLOGS WOULD BE BETTER IF THEY WERE BOOKS - RIGHT?

Do the people behind the All Gone books really think we need a hard-copy version of all the crap we can't escape reading about on blogs every-single-fucking-day? Every year since 2006 they've been bringing out these big compendiums of the rare shit streetwear companies release, stuff that is essentially completely pointless. Anyway, now I've sold it to you so well, the 2011 edition is dropping on 21st January at Colette. We'll see you in the queue at midnight on the 20th, we'll be the ones wearing sleeping bags.

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