The Fashion Issue 2009
Epicly Later'd
I called Ty Evans to ask if he had any unused Guy Mariano footage and he said, "You know what I have? Twenty raw tapes that Spike filmed for Video Days.”
Koos Van Den Akker
Eye-bogglingly complex sweaters are the first things that come to mind when someone comes up in our face and whispers, "Bill Cosby." Not Pudding Pops, not that "Dad is great, give us chocolate cake" song he sang, and certainly not Fat Albert.
When Rat Ruled The World
In 1983, having recently moved to Sydney, a young Jac Vidgen threw a party in his Elizabeth Bay apartment. He’d done stuff like this before and like his previous efforts, the party was an unmitigated success.
Hair Hats
When the Japanese hairstylist Shinji Konishi first molded wigs into the likenesses of assorted animals for a gallery show in Tokyo in 2008, he hoped repulsion would trump all else.
Barbara Hulanicki
What started as a mail-order business run out of Barbara Hulanicki’s flat quickly turned into a cult fashion line in which virtually every piece sold out as soon as it hit the shelf.
Global Trend Report 2009 - Antwerp & Tokyo
Belgian boys are out of control. They're mixing and matching like they're on a game show called Mix and Match! and the winner gets a dream date with Walter Van Beirendonck.
Corpse Breath
We were at London Fashion Week to cover it for the Viceland.com blog because people told us that “fashion blogging” is really big at the moment.
Bernhard Willhelm
German designer Bernhard Willhelm is the king of crazy fashion—last year he dressed men up like cartoon Prince Charmings and sent female models down the runway with necklaces made of hot dogs.
Kai Kühne
Every article about Kai Kühne these days is called something like "Wild Child Grows Up and Gets Serious!," "Tempestuous Bad Boy Makes Good!," or, as the New York Times titled their profile, "Can Fashion Forgive His Past?"
Paris Is Not A Soft Cheese
I sat down with Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld biographer Alicia Drake and Kate Moss biographer Francoise-Marie to talk about the shark-filled fashion industry.
More Than Fashion
A sought-after darling of the fashion world, nominated three times for “Man of the Year” by GQ magazine, and Kanye West’s personal go-to guy for his new Pastelle label, Kim Jones is a modern fashion giant.