Fashion

A genealogy of cool

In Cool, Economics, Fashion, Language, Music on 11 August 2008 with no comments

A friend from college was here yesterday for another friend’s party. He studies linguistics at the University of Illinois and we had a good conversation on his Ph.D. dissertation, a study of Parisian residents’ perceptions of other Parisian residents’ ways of speaking. I eventually steered things towards one of my side-interests: what it has meant [...]

Capturing Berlin, in fashion photographs

In Berlin, Fashion, Photography on 19 November 2007 with 1 comment

Like Look at Me in Moscow, Stil in Berlin captures young, neon-clad Berliners dressed for a night out in Kreuzberg [map, wiki, official]. They’ve got a Flickr page, too, full of many other great photographs of nightlife in Berlin.

Look At Me, a Russian street-fashion blog

In Fashion, Photography, Russia on 12 November 2007 with 2 comments

Look At Me, a Russian street-fashion blog, has some interesting shots of young people in various shades of cool.

A wartime empathy device

In Fashion, Social Media, War on 2 November 2007 with no comments

Pasta&Vinegar points to the Beat wartime empathy device; it’s a POW-MIA bracelet for the digital age. On one end, a dogtag-like device records and transmits the heartbeat of a deployed soldier to a civilian back home wearing another device that simulates the heartbeat.

A bunch of famous architects dress up as their buildings

In Architecture, Fashion, History, New York on 16 October 2007 with no comments

A bunch of famous architects dress up as their buildings [more]. Starring William Van Alen as the Chrysler Building.

Tokyo street style

In Fashion, Photography, Tokyo on 8 October 2007 with no comments

Harajuku, a website devoted to Tokyo street fashion. It feels a little less authentic than The Sartorialist, but that might be me.