From the category archives:

Books/Art

I thought it was my duty to post something on the Biggest Fashion Happening On The Planet, but couldn’t summon the interest to post pictures of self-important and under-nourished people buying stuff they do not need.
I thought that my Online Crush, The Unknown Hipster, (it’s a humour, not a looks thing) could be trusted to [...]

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IN THE MIDST OF ALL THE MADNESS: ANDREW ZUCKERMAN’S BIRD

by hurricanevanessa on September 8, 2010

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ARE THESE DIOR IMAGES RACIST, ART, OR JUST FASHION?

by hurricanevanessa on September 6, 2010

But if you look closely, the Asian “extras” are one individual. duplicated over and over.
The photographer explained his intent to Lemondrop: “The mass-duplicated commoners don’t actually represent people at all: “I wanted to show the power of Chinese people standing together and a kind of socialism in Chinese history (only in Chinese history not China [...]

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GERALDINE HUSSON’S CHAIRDRESSES OR DRESSCHAIRS

by hurricanevanessa on September 5, 2010

Via Crushable

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JODI BIEBER’S BODIES BEAUTIFUL?

by hurricanevanessa on September 1, 2010

These images, from Jodi Beiber’s “Real Beauty” series have been around for a while.
But I haven’t posted them.
Today, as I opened another email congratulating the COSMO team on our September fashion story, “Sexy Showstoppers,” I remembered them and wondered whether, because it is clear that we all love seeing women of different shapes and sizes [...]

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WHO IS KEVIN KELLERMAN?

by hurricanevanessa on August 31, 2010

The Archie comics are as American as a Norman Rockwell painting.
But like Rockwell’s paintings, they run the risk of becoming icons of a bygone age.
Does including Kevin, the first openly gay character ever to appear in the strip, help make the 50’s-something comic easier to relate to?
According to co-chief executive of Archie Comic Publications, Jon [...]

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No-one’s going to mess with you, if you’re accessorising with these fierce Ted Noten handbags by Belgian artist Ted Noten.
They’ll look adorable with your Alexander McQueen knuckle-duster purse and rings.

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EVAN KAFKA’S FUTURE STAND-UP COMEDIANS.

by hurricanevanessa on August 24, 2010

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INSIDE THE PRIVATE JETS OF AFRICAN DICTATORS.

by hurricanevanessa on August 24, 2010

Makes you feel really, really proud.
Doesn’t it?
Nick Gleis photography, via The Telegraph.

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