Tag Archives: Fashion
Just When You Thought American Apparel Couldn’t Fail Any Harder…
Tweet They manage to. To work at American Apparel you must email a full body shot to some mysterious email address after which you are approved or rejected. Failure. Via Gawker. Clearly, that standard leaves a lot of wiggle room. Now, a source tells us that American Apparel has a new hiring policy. For the [...]
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Sex and the City’s Women of Color Problem.
Tweet When I went to see the much-reviewed Sex and the City 2 this weekend with four other women of color, I was reminded of an essay by bell hooks, “Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators”: Within my family’s Southern black working-class home, located in a racially segregated neighborhood, watching television was one way to develop [...]
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Kurt’s dad takes on the “new generation of dude”
TweetGet your hankies handy. If anyone has time to write a transcript in comments, I’d be very appreciative. Tweet
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Janelle Monae’s hot gender-bending Tightrope video
TweetThis video is awesome. What I most liked about it is Janelle Monae, and how she rocks the man’s style suit and shoes, along with a feminine updo and earrings. In a male-dominated and pretty heteronormative arena like the music industry, this kind of gender-bending is particularly amazing. And did I mention she looks hot? [...]
Quick Hit: the world’s oldest shoe discovered