The Fashion Issue 2008
Up-and-Comers - UK
Somewhere among the pulsating mass of young designers and wannabe trendsetters that choke the streets of London are a few new faces who are ready to do great things on fashion's front lines.
What The Hell Happened
Rennie Ellis was an extraordinary photographer who took pictures from the centre of the scenes he was a part of for almost four decades.
Hair Police
It’s only recently that Iranian men have become the target of ultraconservative, style-cramping campaigns.
Global Trend Report '08 - Barcelona
Spanish girls like to dress up to the point where they look like cartoon characters or extras in an Almodovar movie. This is a good and fun thing. Sexy schoolteacher never gets old.
Drinking Milan
In 1979, Milan's fashion week overtook Paris, in terms of both pure profit and volume of business.
Vice Presents The People's Lists
Excerpted from The People’s Almanac Presents the 20th Century: History With the Boring Parts Left Out, by David Wallechinsky.
Up-and-Comers - Scandinavia
Vice: You have a degree in Economics, how did you go from banker to fashion designer?
Global Trend Report '08 - Antwerp
Black leggings and ballet flats (with a new ankle-strap twist) continue their reign in Belgium, paired, of course, with some big sacklike thing on top, such as a bright blue designer raincoat (which is completely useless against the rain) or a cute...
Puss In Boots
You've probably seen Cat Prin: The Tailor of a Cat. It's a Japanese web-store that sells the most ridiculously adorable cat outfits.
SA Styles
These photos were taken in a part of South Africa known as Walmer Location in Port Elizabeth. The place is a side effect of the implementation of apartheid in the 1960s.
Global Trend Report '08 - Berlin
Berliners are keeping things plain and scruffy, which isn't that surprising after an oppressive summer of new-rave neon and glitter. Boys especially are doing their best to make sure their clothes are dirty and torn. It's not enough to be vintage.
Global Trend Report '08 - Montreal
Boys have short hair in Montreal now. Beardos have disappeared and facial hair is getting more carefully trimmed (unless guys are growing a play-off beard at the end of hockey season, which happens more often than you would think).