Amil Niazi, Matthew Bedard, Maxwell Williams
Mason Poole, Amanda Demme, Ben Aqua, Stevie and Mada
Diamond Rings
written by Amil Niazi photographed by Mason Poole
One would expect to roll up on electric blue eyeliner and zebra hot pants, or at the very least something in a fuchsia. But when finally reaching the cozy alterna-café (literally called, ahem, Alternative Grounds) in the heart of Toronto’s eclectic Little Poland, instead of explosions and...
Long Nguyen
David BellemÈre
Shaping A New Couture
Fall 2010 Collections
“I want to make the arch of the shoes at such an angle and height that this very high heel will help to lift the model as if she were much taller,” said the Dutch designer Jan Taminiau as he pulled out a triangular, sharply-pointed wooden heel—at least 14 inches high with silver...
Long Nguyen
David BellemÈre
Timeless Skin: 25 Years of Donna Karan
While standing in the middle of an enormous walk-in closet in Donna Karan’s Central Park West apartment, Patti Cohen, Karan's publicist, says, “You realize they are more or less the same clothes.” I'm looking at the carefully sorted clothes, predominantly black with some variations of grayish olive...
Matthew Bedard
Rankin
Paula Thomas celebrates ten collections via a radical collaboration with Rankin
Head designer of thomas wylde, paula thomas, effectively bulldozes the standard fashion interview–many of which can boringly read like interchangeable ego-trumpeting sermons–into a radically fractured pile of creative rubble. She’s funny, crass...
Kintaro Ozawa
Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe
It was three years ago that we first heard of The Starchamber Organization. A fascination with the first stages of the Cold War—when the U.S. Government used psychedelic drugs as agents of mind control...
Joe Donnelly
Yus Tsai
A ROMANCE OF THE NEAR FUTURE
The looks and all that shit can be handled. On any given night, you can bump into 50 women with movie star/model looks (who may actually be movie stars or models) just walking blindfolded down Abbot-Kinney—where Olivia Wilde conveniently (for her, since she lives around the corner) meets for an early Friday dinner...
Keith Jacobs
Christopher Churchill
It Begins with a Thirst for Blood
Jim Moreau stretches in the front seat of his ‘80s red sedan–360,000 highway miles chalked up on the odometer–buttons up a shirt, and then heads down to the fairgrounds to prepare for the evening’s show. After all, everything needs to be shipshape for the moment he sits himself into a...
Gregg LaGambina, Tahirah Conliffe
Gitte Melgaard
Hailee Steinfeld
written by Gregg LaGambina
It is sometimes perfectly fine to stare at a 13-year-old girl. to stare and stare, with her mother now perched just around the corner, out of sight, sipping coffee and nibbling at a scone, confirming with a tentative handshake...
Eric Miles Williamson, Harold Jaffe, Jessica Garrison
Vanessa Prager
Liar
written by Eric Miles Williamson
When I was very young my mother taught me the value of a good lie. The man who ended up raising me had been thrown in jail, and my two brothers and I lived with our mother in welfare housing. Our mother preferred booze, men and drugs over food, and as a result, we boys didn’t eat often. We’...
