The Fashion Issue 2011
Nanotextiles
Juan Hinestroza is an assistant professor of fiber science and directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. His field of research falls at the cross section of fiber and polymer science and...
Vera Barreto Leite Valdez
Vera Valdez left Brazil as a teenager and began a career in Paris in the 1950s as a model for surrealist designer Elsa Schiaparelli. By the middle of what is one of the most important decades in the history of fashion, she was traveling the world...
Islamabad Fashion Week
Pakistan’s first Fashion Week was a disaster. Held last year in Karachi, it had to be rescheduled twice and eventually downsized because the electricity kept going off and Islamic fundamentalists kept threatening to blow
Foot Dicks
I am the last person on Earth who should have any input on the topic of fashion. Nearly everything I wear is old. And not clever old like I found it in my grandma’s closet and I want to make a statement. I have just been wearing the same pants...
Notes from Fashion Don’ts Week in Milan
I’m in Milan! Woo-hoo!! Vice sent me here to “cover” the spring Fashion DON’Ts collections and I think I just spotted Dustin Diamond being mobbed by wealthy hipsters!