In Defense of the Hot Mess
Lately, I’ve been really into weird concepts of something like “failed, desperate, self-conscious deliberate performative femininity?” Part of this is evidenced by the fact that I’ve been doing my hair in big curls with my kinda-crappy-blonde-dye-job and wearing a ridiculous faux-leopard coat with ripped tights and messy eyeliner, and part of it comes together more in...
My Brilliant Career
I was set to enter a modeling contest when I was 13. Seventeen magazine was having a contest in which the grand prize was your very own picture in the magazine–yes, in Seventeen itself–and a meeting and consultation with an agent. Now, I’d never wanted to be a model. Not since the age of 5,...
The Family Furs
Mom gave me her mink for Christmas, and I wanted to protest. She bore it in her arms like a gift of the Magi and announced, “Merry Christmas. It’s yours now. What does an old lady need with a mink, anyway?” She was sixty-one, looking fifty. Her coat was her prize possession. “Besides,” she said,...
Cindy Mangomini
Cindy Mangomini is a freelance illustrator and fashion boutique owner from Maastricht who documents her daily outfits through illustration. We love the almost scientific documentation mixed with playfulness and color! Why did you start drawing your daily outfits? I had been drawing this kind of fashion illustration for a long time, but not on a...
How To: Date Vintage Clothing
There is nothing like the tangible glee felt when pressing fingers against clothing-clad hangers to slide them down a thrift store rack. Or the smell of anticipation mixed with the musk of moth-balls and old-lady-smells in the back of an estate sale closet. The hunt for vintage clothing is as peril-fraught and rewarding as any...
The Window Shopping Project: Dollars and Sense.
In this new series, we follow blogger Terri Lowry as she makes her way through a year-long project exploring the various levels of retail in America. Each month we will feature a post from her window-shopping project and hope that it will encourage discourse! Over the holidays I came across a long essay by Susan...
The New Old Dress
Someone could have died in that Peeled from a corpse Hung on a rack or An ill-fitted gift Tags already torn Could not take back Never worn or Perhaps she got fat Ditched it before she knew it would fit again after the baby was born or He fell in love with a girl in...
Killer Style
There are many adages that describe fashion as an experience to be borne. Style over comfort. Killer style. The quite explanatory fashion is pain. The idea that we must tolerate the discomfort for the sake of beauty creates a sport out of getting dressed – it is a marathon and we are the runners, limping...
A Curious Fancy
(We will be showcasing bloggers, from time-to-time, who we think are leading the way in honest, inclusive & intelligent fashion & style blogging. We ask them Proustian questions and hope you enjoy their answers & their blogs as much as we do.) All photos © A Curious Fancy. Blog: A Curious Fancy Name: Ragini Age:...
Just Say No.
Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S. Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American...
Junk Jewelry
My husband and I stay up late nights while my stepson sleeps. We retreat to my upstairs office, the sloped roof and pictures of the Virgin Mary and James Dean and Frida Kahlo on the walls, sometimes balancing cocktails in our hands as we climb the stairs, and talk for hours until one of us...
Red
Sanja Bistricic is a photographer from Croatia. You can view more of her work at www.sanjabistricic.com, flickr and tumblr.
