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June 10, 2014 Sophie Weiner

“In the digital realm, we are naked all the time,” flashes the text in the promotional video for x.pose, a project by Xuedi Chen and Pedro Oliveira. The sculpture is composed of several layers, one of which is a reactive display that, using bluetooth, alternates between transparent and opaque depending on the amount of personal data […]

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May 5, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Sixteen-year-old Annalisa Hartlaub, a possible usurper of Tavi’s teenage fashion queendom, has clearly worked out how to become an internet darling overnight — nostalgia. Don’t just appeal to one group of olds, hit ’em all! For a photo class project, Hartlaub took selfies to the next level, styling herself as a counter-cultural archetype, twice for each […]

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April 10, 2014 Andy Cush

For the past three years and change, Isac Walter has been wearing a different band t-shirt every single day, documenting his outfits on his blog, Minor Thread. On Monday, he reached number 1,000, and posted the above picture of every shirt he’s donned so far. According to a blog post, arranging the tees took four […]

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Andy Cush

A spread on Vogue.com today has everything you need to dress like your favorite emoji. Night on the town? Try the dancer-in-red-dress icon with a $475 Haute Hippie dress and $625 Alexander Wang lace-up heels. If the running man emoji is more your style, a $178 red t-shirt and $308 Converse knock-offs will totally nail it. It’s […]

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February 21, 2014 Andy Cush

The mountain that sat atop Pharrell Williams’ head at the Grammys could be yours for a mere $10,500. The producer is auctioning off his massive headgear on eBay to benefit his charity From One Hand to Another, with bidding open until March 2. He’s even made a (quite funny!) YouTube video about it. We’ll probably never […]

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February 12, 2014 Andy Cush

Microbes: huge in 2014. In the video below, from Dezeen, Suzanne Lee of the company BioCouture explains how she makes clothing out of bacteria. So far, she’s making jackets and shoes out of a material called bacterial cellulose. They’re quite nice-looking. “What we have right now are living organisms making us materials, but then the organism is killed […]

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January 21, 2014 Aymann Ismail

Vaguely inspired by Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, ANIMAL staged a completely unauthorized fashion shoot on Wall Street yesterday, complete with unauthorized partial nudity and a wolf mask, because why not? Bystanders for the most part, did their best to not gawk too much. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) CREDITS Sarah McSweeney (follow her on Instagram: […]

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September 12, 2013 ANIMAL

Who cares what you’re wearing. You’re about to fight somebody. What are you taking off? Presuming the people sashaying outside Lincoln Center would actually punch out the line-stepper who stole their precious Rachel Zoe fashion show seat, ANIMAL enlisted fashion expert Courtney Kornegay ask, “If you were in a brawl, what’s coming off first?” (Video: Aymann […]

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June 24, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Fashion designer and UQAM professor Ying Gao has developed two dresses that illuminate themselves, but only while you’re paying attention to them. Inspired by an essay entitled “Esthétique de la disparition” (The aesthetic of disappearance) by Paul Virilio, the dresses work by way of including sections of photo-luminescent thread as well as an imbedded eye-tracking technology that is activated only by the […]

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June 17, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Renowned Italain sculptor Maurizio Cattelan announced his retirement from contemporary art immediately following his retrospective at the Guggenheim, but he has hardly slowed down production in any way. In addition to collaborating with Italian photographer Pierpaolo Ferrariis on his publication Toilet Paper, the artist has now designed a bold line of  impressive unisex sweatshirts for Milan-based fashion brand MSGM. These designs, […]

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