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pretty sweet gig there Colin

Rumi Neely — fashiontoast

A New Fashion Image for Urban America… via the NYTimes

Ouigi Theodore (shown), the founder of the Brooklyn Circus, a retro-urban fashion boutique and label, has cultivated a unique style that has won him applause not only among the fashion pundits of Brooklyn, but also from streetwise fans as far away as Europe and Japan.

Last year, the label produced a photo shoot featuring friends and employees in the streets of San Francisco and Brooklyn, which will be published in an upcoming book called, “The Brooklyn Circus.”

See more photos here…

Read the article here…

” The Night Porter “ Digital Editorial

Photographed by Errikos Andreou

Courtney Love by Hedi Slimane - December 2008

Scott Schuman a.k.a. The Sartorialist

Critic’s Notebook
Does Fashion Make Good Theater?

Beautiful image by Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Times…

Fantastic article, Does Fashion Make Good Theater, by Charles Isherwood

“Still, as a matter of contemporary anthropology, Fashion Week illuminates, through a magnifying lens, the state of American culture in ways that a lot of theater does not. The relentless production of images reflects the obsession with self-presentation that has made the explosion of social media such a significant development. For the media-savvy younger generations today, after all, if you are not disseminating your image as widely as possible via Facebook and your personal impressions via Twitter, you are fading into oblivion.

The corollary of this idea — even more striking a facet of the fashion world — is that in contemporary America celebrity is not only a virtue, it is practically the only ideal we all share. Spend a few days pushing your way through the flashing cameras and the video crews at the fashion shows and you begin to feel that you will become famous by osmosis. It’s both mildly intoxicating and disturbing.

The fashionable world may not be holding a mirror up to nature, as Hamlet suggests good theater should, but it is definitely holding a camera in somebody’s — in everybody’s — face.”

I think Alexa Chung is a beautiful young woman with a great on-air presence. Whether it was MTV or her own people… someone horribly mismanaged her limited run on MTV. See her new Pepe Jeans campaign HERE

I wish I was Mikael Jansson

Well known for his fashion photography as well as his work for Interview Magazine and GAP… his portraiture, his black and whites, and his documentary work are (at least for me) awe inspiring.

Ellen von Unwerth at Taschen

I really like Ellen’s photography… unfortunately her book is $700… $1800 if you want it with a black and white print… and besides, I’m in the process of packing to move… and have sworn to never - ever - buy another book… (we’ll see how that goes).