City People Fashion

December 31st, 2007 by admin

Animal pictures? You (and, er, Jessica) asked, we (and one of our readers, Miriam) answered. At left, a picture Miriam sent us of her Christmas cat, Carlo. (”He actually didn’t mind being dressed up at all.”) In the gallery which begins below, ten other cute critters we managed to find.
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[All gallery images via AP.]

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December 31st, 2007 by admin

Check to see if the price has changed. It was on sale the day I wrote the post (and that was before all the after Christmas sales hit). It might have gone down even more!! I just love it when I don’t have to pay full price for something and this fragrance is amazing!! And you do know that Valentine’s Day will be here before you know it.
List Price: $68.00
Price: $58.60
You Save: $9.40 (14%)

Acqua Di Gio Cologne For Men by Giorgio Armani

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December 31st, 2007 by admin

People will probably feel that I have no right to be writing about something that is way before my time and that I had no physical contact with but from this very old V magazine interview and the accompanying images and this YouTube video of Fashion Aid in 1985, I am clamouring for Bodymap, a British label of the 80’s founded by David Holah and Stevie Stewart, that ultimately failed because of over-hype and under-funding (two failures of a lot of British independent designers…), to return and prosper in today’s enthusiastic fashion climate.  It’s hard to find the collections documented online but with names like "Barbie Takes a Trip". "Querelle Meets Olive Oil" and "The Cat in the Hat", I know I want to see more…

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December 31st, 2007 by admin

Today is New Year’s Eve; usually a time for reflection where we make a list of goals and changes we want to do in the new year that, lets face it, we (and I mean me) never follow through with. Sadly, I’ve come to the realization that my skin is not the same it was when I was 20. I know you’re thinking, “Gee, really? You don’t say?”. Sarcasm aside, I think I took for granted the fact that I was blessed with good Asian genes. Most Asians are known for aging gracefully. My mother is a good example. My mother is big on skin care and I’m not sure why she never really instilled it in me while I was growing up. But I did get my love of makeup from her and between the two being a skin care junkie might have been better. When I think about it, if I calculate how much I’ve spent on makeup since I was 10, I probably could have bought the best in skin care 10 times over! It may be an exaggeration but it’s pretty close I’m sure.

In my early 20’s, my skin was smooth, wrinkle and blemish-free. I didn’t have to use an expensive cleanser or moisturizer to make my skin glow. And even with all the late nights and the occasional lazy nights of sleeping with my makeup on, my skin still looked great with the random zit. It wasn’t until this past year that I really noticed my skin changing. When I was pregnant, my skin was in the best shape it had ever been in due to healthy eating and multi-vitamins. After I had my son, I’ll admit that I started slacking in both areas including drinking water. My fluid consumption has now been replaced with a couple mugs of coffee and the rare glass of water (usually when I’m dying of thirst and by that point I’m severely dehydrated already). Having a baby has definitely aged me faster and I’ll only be 29 this year! I’m not even 30 yet and grey hairs, dark circles, wrinkles and fine lines have crept up on me! It wasn’t until recently that my grey hairs and fine lines have started to really bother me.

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December 31st, 2007 by admin

We already knew Nintendo’s DS was quite the popular handheld, and while the PSP recently overtook it in Japanese hardware sales, the most recent numbers show that the Big N’s famed DS has actually rocketed above the mighty PlayStation 2 in lifetime sales (in Japan). Notably, the numbers do combine DS and DS Lite units, but there’s no mention of how the systems stack up worldwide. Nevertheless, the feat is a fairly impressive one when you consider how much longer the PS2 has been available compared to the DS, and unless Sony somehow lightens the PS2 load even further and starts bundling them in with cereals, we doubt it will reclaim the top spot anytime soon.

[Via DSFanboy, thanks J]

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December 31st, 2007 by admin

Okay people, it’s not puppytime just yet. There’s been a series of anti-abortion mishaps out west this month. On December 6 in Albuquerque, abortion provider Dr. Curtis Boyd’s clinic was destroyed by arsonists, reports the New York Times. This past Tuesday, two other abortion centers in the New Mexico city were seriously ravaged by fires. Police have arrested two 22-year-old men, Chad Altman and Sergio Baca, on suspicion of arson. Outside of Denver, paternalistic protesters are picketing outside the homes of contractors who agreed to work on a new Planned Parenthood building. Even on Christmas morning these jerks planned to show up outside the contractors homes to picket with signs of dead babies. What a truly Christian gesture!

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December 31st, 2007 by admin

So a new season rolls in, and you start hearing words constructed with hyphens bandied about.  These mini trend nuggets are designed to be used very liberally for the next six months without much thought as to whether the item of clothing actually encapsulates that word or not, but it’s always best to bung things into trend categories right?  Examples being nu-rave, nu-grave, boho-tec and drum roll please, for SS08, comes techno-tribe.  The Observer fashion supplement by Tank describes this ‘as the most complex trend to emerge’ combining multicultural pillage and 90’s raving lunacy with prints and plumes clashing with dip dye and reflective surfaces.

The former part of this post was really an excuse to rant about trend nugget words but the latter part is far more positive and though people may attribute Toga’s SS08 collection with the aforementioned phrase, I’d rather not think of it as a collection that is simply going with the trend flows but is mixing it up in a very unique way.  Toga is a Japanese label that is little known outside Japan but has three stores in Japan.  Yasuka Furato, the designer created ‘Toga’ in 1997 and no, she doesn’t create draped Grecian dresses every season but rather an eclectic mix of textile research and play on volume. 

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December 30th, 2007 by admin

I know I just had a haircut a month back but I had intended to get something shorter. I wish I had met Phoebe then. I so loved her funky, edgy hair when I first saw it during the Blogger Mixer and I had told myself, “she has got to take me to her stylist!” Yes. That’s how badly I wished to get away from my boring long locks. Gah.

Thank god for Phoebe, who did take me to her stylist over at F Salon and helped me find a fabulous hair style, I went and got “BOB-ed”. I had needed her to tell the stylist what I had wanted done and not to mention the moral support!

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December 30th, 2007 by admin

I’m still a little bitter over the months I spent making $9 an hour clearing out their dressing rooms, but I have to credit the ethically exploitative, generically-trendhumping corporate paradox that is American Apparel for its ceaseless bloggy news flow. Just last week, the company ran a New York Times ad advocating the sort of immigration reforms that would make life easier for the folks that weave and sew those gym tees and hoodies our generation so loves. Then on Monday, the company officially listed itself on the American Stock Exchange, finally subjecting its financial results to the scrutiny of public shareholders who will no doubt at some point wonder if that whole “living wage” idea was such a smart one. Monday’s announcement came on the heels of about a year the company spent trading opaquely under the name Endeavor Acquisition as a so-called “backdoor” listing, which reminded us of another “backdoor” thing about the company: that fucking billboard. We recently heard from the guy — yeah, guy! — who claims to have defaced it earlier this year. His letter is probably the best Christmas gift a bunch of whores like us could have gotten, not least because he admits he has a “lot to learn.” Don’t we all.

A friend just forwarded the american apparel story link and said: “dude, you’re efamous…kind of”. I was totally amazed and happy that such a debate was sparked by my humble offering.
First off, i’m not a graf writer. Honestly, I was just reacting to the constantly degrading images of women that AA creates. That ad in particular - headless, bent over, composed so that the focus was irrefutable… I went home, grabbed some spraypaint, took the train back and waited until 4am to climb the scaffolding.
Now that i’ve read all of the comments and reactions posted on jezebel, i feel regret at having chosen the word “get”. The people who mentioned “are” as a better choice of wording were right. I struggled with the thought of leaving such an open-to-interpretation message, but eventually just decided to go with my gut-reaction and get the hell down from there.
It was horrifying to read that some people interpreted it as “women deserve to be raped” or that i was probably some uneducated/ignorant/misogynistic graf writer promoting my justification….(geez, talk about a stereotype!) I also took offense to the comments that suggested i need to re-evaluate my concept of feminism… duh! of course i agree that women should be able to dress as they please and not have to worry about others interpretation. That said, i couldn’t let this advert slide by without a protest. This wasn’t a run of the mill ad by some faceless corporation. This was Dov Charney’s “art” and ideology.
I’ll be the first to admit that i have a lot to learn. I’m not much of an academic, and have only recently started reading books which address gender, feminist theories, body image… i have my own (imperfect) ideas and reactions to the world around me and accept that i am going to make mistakes, and grow as i learn more…
As an act of civil disobedience/direct action, i believe that this form of protest was effective(if only momentarily) in that it caused AA economic damage(well over $10,000.), inspired an open discussion on many levels and was a learning experience for all.
I don’t mean to ramble on and on, so i’ll just end this by saying thank you for bringing this topic/discussion onto your website. In the future, i will take greater precautions to be more clear in my meaning…

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December 30th, 2007 by admin

Ready for another go on the Nikon rumor carousel? Apparently, the mythical D60 could be next in line to replace the D40x (pictured), but of course, all of this should be taken with a copious amount of salt for the time being. Based on rumors suggesting that the D60 is coming next Spring (by the same fellow who called the D3, purportedly), combined with reports that the D40x is at the end of its own rope, we’re left to believe that Nikon may be swapping the latter out and replacing it with the prior. Hit the links below for the beginning of what’s sure to be a long road to denial / confirmation.

[Via Photography Bay]

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