This Just In: Kanye West Wears a Leather Kilt at 12.12.12 Concert
A fashion moment just took place at the 12.12.12: The Concert for Sandy Relief in New York City. The kilt makes yet another appearance on the iconic Kanye West, as he performed his 21-minute set, leaving the audience dumbstruck. As if the leather kilt weren’t enough proclamation of swag, the 35-year-old multi-hyphenate opted to make [...]
Henry Leutwyler’s “Ballet”
I wanted to be a prima ballerina when I was a young girl. I took ballet for three years, but eventually, I lost interest in it. Perhaps dancing was not my cup of tea. Perhaps I didn’t have the passion nor the stamina for it. It’d take much more than being in love with the [...]
JR Schmidt’s LEGO New York City
They say ‘art imitates life‘ and vise versa. Seems quite the case with visual artist JR Schimdt, and we can’t say we’re complaining. JR creates a colorful 3D illustration of the Big Apple using everyone’s favorite childhood toy, LEGO as its basis. Highlighting most of Manhattan and some of the city’s outer boroughs, the piece was constructed with [...]
Angel Haze: “Werkin’ Girls”
Angel Haze‘s “Werkin’ Girls” single from her Reservation EP gets it visual treatment in this music video. The fast-paced, edgy and heavily edited scenes shot in some NYC warehouse make for an interesting message. Or should we say mis-message? We’re diggin’ the tune so far, but we don’t get what the video’s trying to say. [...]
Azealia Banks: “Luxury”
Azealia Banks shows us “Luxury” in the form of the song’s latest music video. Directed by Clarence Fuller, the black-and-white video features New York city’s famous cityscape, as Azealia shows off her talents in singing, dancing and rapping. The song is a track off her mixtape Fantasea, and if anything, is a great sneak peek [...]
NYFW S/S ’13: Mark McNairy New Amsterdam
Designer Mark McNairy makes his New York Fashion Week debut in the Spring/Summer 2013 season. Showcasing a wide selection of menswear and street wear, with funky and bold prints such as leopard, polka dots and camouflage, his first attempt at NYFW is a success. Plus, with rapper Danny Brown closing his show, well–Mark definitely knows [...]
The Modern Woman: Helen Gurley Brown
“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.“ Before Fifty Shades of Grey, there was Sex and the City. Before that, there was Sex and the Single Girl. Helen Gurley Brown was the woman responsible for creating the modern woman. Her books (Sex and the Single Girl 1962, Having It All 1982, and The Late Show 1993) and her work as Cosmopolitan’s Editor-in-Chief [...]
