It’s the inevitable photo gallery after every Melbourne Cup, rubbish everywhere, passed out sunburnt men and drunken girls being carried by friends. Australians are a classy lot.
Fashion
The pop culture Halloween costumes that are best avoided
A Sarah Palin costume? So last year. Going as Michael Jackson for Halloween? Terribly obvious. Gawker has a roundup of the seven worst Halloween costumes — and some far funnier alternatives.
GQ apologises for fashion faux pas
The Australian edition of GQ has celebrated its tenth anniversary edition by admitting it has dished out some pretty “silly” fashion advice over the years, like “shorter-than-short shorts, nipple-revealing singlets and the triumph of tartan.”
Designers pick through the scraps
Fashion often takes its inspiration from the street, but this is taking it to a whole new level. Are bag ladies and toilet paper inspiring fashion’s biggest names this season? A whole new angle to recycling trends.
Video of the Day: Oooh, swish! 1930s futuristic fashion predictions
Fashion designers in the 1930s predict what the fashion-forward lady and gent would be wearing in “AD2000”, with a few hits and a lot of misses.
PHOTO GALLERY: A peek inside Madeleine Albright’s jewellery box
Madeleine Albright was known for her sparkly brooches and the secret diplomatic messages they were sending out. Like, the snake pin she wore after the Iraqi media dubbed her a “serpent”. Here’s a glittering round up of the best.
Touched up: France demands labelling for airbrushed images
Valerie Boyer, an MP in Sarzoky’s UMP, is one of the politicians pushing in France for obligatory notices wherever photographs have been airbrushed. Our suggestion: “Models may be fatter than they appear”.
PHOTO GALLERY: New York Fashion Week hits and misses
New York magazine braves the glacial stares of Anna Wintour to bring readers the best looks from this year’s pared-back Fashion Week. If you don’t have any time, don’t start looking — it’s addictive!
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British women: the original fashion victims
Women in Britain dress like frumps, says Linda Grant. A decade of noteworthy changes in fashion will do little but alter the colours they wear: from beige, grey and stone to navy and white. Aaargh.
New Yorker, the fashion edition
With New York fashion week happening RIGHT NOW, Lee Tran Lam digests the New Yorker’s annual style issue. Particularly notable, a “sassifying” interior decorator with a penchant for “muchness”.
The correct way to wear a keffiyeh
Listen up, Western hipsters: if you’re going to slavishly follow the fashion by wearing a keffiyeh, learn to do it properly. Ahmed Al-Omran explains how real Arabic men style the headscarf. A fascinating look at Middle Eastern fashion.
The year’s most powerful fashion mag editors
Forbes look at this year’s power players in the fashion press for 2009, a year where The September Issue, Project Runway and America’s Next Top Model all shook up the movers and shakers.
New from the House of Harvard
Want the look of an American Ivy League University student without the hefty fees or required academic prowess? Faced with financial woes, Harvard has lent its prestigious name to a high-end fashion line, featuring a frankly alarming amount of plaid, tartan and beige.
Bag lady chic
W finds a sensitive way to respond to the Global Financial Crisis — packaging up homelessness in designer labels for a photo shoot.
Miss Universe’s celebration of Camp transcends irony
Somehow, the Miss Universe pageant has survived an ironic age. And a post-ironic one, too.
The evolution of the t-shirt
Designers go to great effort to create the perfect, “worn-in” t-shirt — with the price tag to match. But the once humble garment is now more than just fashion, says Hugo Lindgren: it’s a canvas.
Newsreader fashion: a Crikey field guide
Have you ever sent forlorn tweets about Ali Moore’s cravat into the ether? Well, feel alone no longer. Mel Campbellprovides a semi-definitive guide to the sartorial language of news and current affairs.
Is Vanity Fair’s Best Dresssed list still in vogue?
Vanity Fair has released its 2009 Best Dressed list, but in the online age — where sites like The Satorialist are far more tapped in to the fashion zeitgeist — mags like VF have lost their status as arbiters of style, says Mediaite.
Fashions on the field: space suits
A collection of photos from the US National Air and Space Museum’s exhibition of Apollo 11 artifacts, featuring some of the wackier space suit fashions of the ’60s.
Model down!
If a model fell on a runway and a photographer was there would anyone see her collapse? Oh yes. This is what schadenfreude looks like.
How to get snapped by The Sartorialist
Want to get snapped by the internet’s hottest street photographer? Cut-out, keep and consult this handy flow-chart!
Elite golfers’ plus fours a feat of fashion planning
In the world of elite golf, fashion is never left to chance. Tiger Woods’ major championship fashion was scripted by Nike a year ago.
Political Fashion Semiotics 101: the implications of politicians’ clothes
This week, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev thrilled and horrified the blogosphere by wearing jeans and a designer blazer to a dinner with Barack Obama. Mel Campbell does some further political fashion analysis.
Lacroix’s last showing
Receivership never looked so fashionable, says Jess Cartner-Morley. With Lacroix under administration, Christian’s latest showing might never get made, but he went out with a bang.
