Four-Point Fashion Assault 3 – A Spartan Resolution
December 22nd, 2009
Since we last met here, I’ve stayed true to the dark side, but there is one major change: my fashion spending has slowed to a near-halt. You see, I have decided that, having as much clothing as I do should preclude me from adding anything to my obese closets until next winter. That’s right, a [...]
Death Becomes Her
August 15th, 2009
Barney’s New York came under fire last month for this window display in which remarkably un-realistic mannequins wearing Helmut Lang and ALC were posed in postures suggestive of attack, and the windows were blood spattered. Normally callous New Yorkers apparently freaked right out, Barney’s backpedaled and claimed their creative director had been out when the [...]
Deathwatch
July 29th, 2009
This whole article started with a random eBay discovery: this antique skull pocketwatch, circa 1780, which as of this writing had one bid at $500.00. But the existence of one pretty awesome skull pocket watch led me to look for others, and to discover that, bizarre as it may seem, the skull has been a [...]
Rick Owens Fall Winter 2009 Full Show
June 21st, 2009
The new collection from Rick Owens makes me sad that I don’t live on a space station in a faraway galaxy.







