NYFW backstage beauty: The Chinese military meets ’40s Hollywood at Jason Wu
NYFW style snaps: We’re at Peter Som and Jason Wu, and so are Grace Coddington, Kate Lanphear, and Olivia Palermo
NYFW diary: The dispatch from day one including Jason Wu’s updated Mao jacket, Rag & Bone’s granny mishmash, and Suno’s sweet, sweet garden print
They said/We said: Kate Moss battles good and evil (like, really evil!) in a new W photoshoot
NYFW style snaps: We spy many fur coats, lots of studded leather, and is that Waris Ahluwalia?
All posts under ‘David Bowie’
By Sarah Nicole Prickett | November 10th, 2011 | 12:30 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Callipygian
Meaning: Having beautiful buttocks. No, really. It’s from the Greek kallipygos, from kalli- + pyg? Buttocks.
Usage: “Those dusky Afro-Scandinavian buttocks, which combine the callipygian rondure observed among the races of the Dark Continent with the taut and noble musculature of sturdy Olaf, our blond Northern cousin.” — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
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By Rebecca Perrin | October 28th, 2011 | 2:00 pm
Halloween has snuck up on me and I’m still without a costume. Have any recommendations for a girl with no time to spare?
Thrift stores may be picked over, but beauty counters are still stocked full of vivid red lipstick, electric blue eyeliner, and sometimes-garish glittery eye shadow. Your costume options are endless when your face is the feature—Elizabeth Taylor, Dame Edna, David Bowie—any pop culture character with a penchant for makeup will do. Ransack your makeup bag for old colours you’ve kept around, and invest in a super-pigmented piece, like M.A.C Fall Colour Lipstick in “Neon Orange” ($18, maccosmetics.com) to look costume-y on All Hallow’s Eve and cool after the clock strikes November and all the ghouls have gone home.
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By Sarah Nicole Prickett | September 2nd, 2011 | 1:00 pm
Illustration by Lewis Mirrett
Word: Ailurophile
Meaning: cat lover (in the swish Greek lexicon)
Usage: “An ailurophile can’t be curious; she could never kill a cat.” ― a terrible joke I made up
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By Sarah Taylor | October 13th, 2010 | 2:00 pm
David Bowie, Station to Station (Deluxe Edition)
It’s my personal opinion that David Bowie is an almost perfect musical creature. You might even consider him an otherwordly artistic genius whose four decades of music continues to influence pop culture and leave imprints on our creative souls. That’s why I’m happy to sneak him in here just before Halloween so you can rethink your Ziggy Stardust costume. Again. Incidentally, it’s also the perfect time to dust off your favorite Bowie albums, and maybe even add to the collection, since he recently released the 40th anniversary of Space Oddity, as well as a deluxe edition of 1976’s Station to Station that includes live versions of “Stay,” “Queen Bitch,” and “Fame,” all currently on repeat in my world. The original release of the album marked the introduction of Bowie’s alter ego, the Thin White Duke, who had a tendency towards aggressively apathetic romanticism, a love for Adolph Hitler, and a severe drug problem. The album feels like running through a dream towards a soulful love affair with your own ego. No matter how many delicious fame monsters follow, I still prefer the original. (Also look out for the War Child David Bowie tribute album that was released this week.) Read more »
By Sarah Nicole Prickett | June 17th, 2009 | 4:00 pm
Okay, I’m too obsessed with synaesthesia. But to me, band du jour Amazing Baby sounds just like black licorice—their dark metal love all glammed over with sugar-high sighs and synthesizers, their nouveau-’70s psychedelia at once familiar (MGMT is the obvious style influencer, but there must be a reason I’m thinking of Wolfmother, too) and a little off (maybe it’s more like ’80s Bowie, after all). Their shaggy head-banging schtick won’t delight all tastes, but if debut album Rewild isn’t in heavy rotation at Urban Outfitters by the end of next week, I’ll eat my “Headdress.” Read more »
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