Fashion in the 1980s tended to be loud and provocative, and the styles sported by the punk music fans of the day were no different. Committed punks set themselves apart by rebelling against the status quo, wear
While working in his family’s leather business, Northbound Leather owner George Giaouris saw an opportunity to support queer and kink-friendly customers who had a profound connection with leather. Over the last 30 years, George turned the business into
AlongsideDJ Kool Herc(whose breaks provided the soundtrack for B-boys and girls), Blow is credited with popularizing breakdancing. The rapper began breaking as a teenager in the early 1970s, as part of theHill Boys breaking crew— named for the Sugar Hill area of Harlem where Malcolm X fir...
"I Feel Pretty'' is a song that had a dual purpose. Steve [Sondheim] was always bothered by the language [he wrote for Maria to sing] — where does she get "alarming?" Instead of fighting it, what Tony [Kushner] did was set the scene in Gimbels using w...
Double denim never dies. “It’s a timeless look,” says Goto. A few years ago, we’d have advised you update it with a slimmer cut and some differentiation between the shades. Today? Wear it exactly as Elvis did – although maybe swerve the quiff unless you’re actually heading to a...
George Giaouris is the owner of Northbound Leather. While working in his family’s leather business, George saw an opportunity to support queer and kink-friendly customers who had a profound connection with leather, just like he did. Over the last 30 years, George turned the business into the...
Maybe you don’t have to dress like a nylon GORE-TEX ninja whose whole outfit rustles with the slightest movement just to stay dry? Maybe you can dress in your usual style, but know there’s a wealth of hidden touches that mean your canvas chore jacket will see you through the day?
But then, Diana Ross did a Stevie Wonder song “Too Shy to Say I Love You.” There’d be no one left on the dance floor, and you would just have the boys cleaning the place up at 5.30 in the morning, and I always thought it was very romantic. When we were at FIT, we would...
Villarreal:You have this experience in the rock ’n’ roll sort of sphere and also in costume design, which are sometimes at odds. How have you come to understand how to dress celebrity clients as characters in real-life narratives, and how does th...
“There was a picture of him on the back,” Weatherallexplained in a 1990 interviewwith journalist Andy Chislehurst, “I was about 11, 12, and I thought ‘yeah, this is the way forward. To dress weird and listen to strange music’. I was looking for an identity and thinking ‘fuck ...