Suitable for daytime G20 gatherings and evening Critical Mass rides alike, the C.O.P. Suit represents the ultimate in “personal protest wear.” Designed with armor protected sleeves and a megaphone-mounted helmet that probably comes in handy for a variety of situations, the concept kinda levels the battlefield between mostly under-equipped protesters and riot gear clad police. |Likecool|
In honor of fashion season, Germany’s DHL, “the official logistics partner of Fashion Week worldwide,” introduces “the first fashion collection made of packaging materials.” Well, this is maybe the first official collection. However, in the last 20 years here in NYC, I’ve seen homeless women and men dressed in packaging materials, mostly “shoes,” but also “hats” and “ponchos” and various styles and lengths of “wraps.” Read more »
Grieving fashionistas left flowers, IZZE sparkling juice, The Holy Zohar, handwritten messages, and other memorial items in front of Alexander McQueen’s NYC store in the Meat Packing District, turning the retail space into a makeshift shrine. Read more »
Be prepared while traversing the dangerous world of fashion with Japanese artist Tetsuya Noguchi’s Chanel armor suit. As Pink Tentacle notes, it was “designed to appeal to the fashion-conscious warrior,” but starting February 11th, could come in quite handy for anyone working the tents at Bryant Park too. |Pink Tentacle|
Move over Lugz, Ecko and Lot 29, the world’s most toxic urban brand, FUBU, is readying a big comeback! Founder Daymond John is bringing his irrelevant design aesthetic back to crappy retailers after a five year recess. He describes the new line as “Carhartt-meets-Abercrombie & Fitch style,” surely a winning formula! WWD reports that he’s not “too worried about losing FUBU’s brand identity” since the kids nowadays have “a three-year memory span, so most don’t have a sense of the brand’s roots.” Wait, isn’t that a good thing? Especially since FUBU’s success is really attributable to the two old Jewish guys who made it profitable, not the urban fable John has tried to weave. |WWD|
Suitable for both fashionistas and right wing bible rewriting evangelists who think the holy book is too damn liberal, this Uzi crucifix can give the notoriously hippie religion of Christianity some much needed edge. |MocoLoco|
We’ve taken a look at weed pants and cocaine shoes for men, but finally there’s some cutting edge fashion accessories for the ladies too. Here’s a young woman modeling her heroin-couture leg warmers. Not only stylish, but also functional, the highly designed attire can comfortably accommodate 1.4 pounds of contraband.
Photo by Customs and Border Protection
Long before heroin was in chic and anyone even heard of meth, crack was the drug of choice for the inner city. White suburban kids might have been happy with their powdered cocaine, but in the 1980s jumbos were all the rage from NYC to LA. In an effort to recapture a piece of that narcotic nostalgia, independent apparel company Double Down NYC is releasing their ‘eightyfourseries‘ line that includes this classic polo shirt with a crack vial logo and gold satin trim. All shirts come with a thought provoking hang tag questionnaire for consumers to recollect how bad rock fucked up or enhanced their lives. Take the crack test after the jump.
As if the fashion world isn’t painful enough, photographer Steven Klein unveils his latest fashion shoot for the more risque version of Vogue, the French one. For the February issue he “pages homage to the Joker and vampires,” with this photo shoot featuring Dutch supermodel and cover girl Lara Stone. Fashionologie has more background on the editorial collaboration. |Fashiontography|
To commemorate the 125th anniversary marking the birth of French Haute couture pioneer Coco Chanel, head designer honcho Karl Lagerfeld created these limited edition five Euro coins—when the economy sucks print your own money! They feature an image of Coco on the front with Karl’s signature underneath and the high fashion brand’s “quilted leather pattern on the back.” Only 99 of the gold versions were struck by the French mint and will be exclusively available in Chanel stores—the rest of you coin collecting fashionistas will have to settle on the silver ones. |Sybarites|
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