Tag Archives: style icon
Bad News Threadbared
I’m completely slammed for the next few weeks before I leave for a conference in London at the end of June. I do have some posts I want to write (or finish), but I’m taking a brief break for the … Continue reading →
Filed under SARTORIAL INDULGENCES
Tagged as bad news bears 1976, badass, fashion inspiration, jackie earle haley, kelly leak, muscle tees, style icon
Ladies of the Night, What a Fright!
It’s a Halloween treat! Enjoy this early ’80s footage from New Wave Theatre of Hollywood all-girl punk band Castration Squad, featuring (among others) Shannon Wilhelm and Mary Bat-Thing, who later became Dinah Cancer, lead singer of 45 Grave. (One of … Continue reading →
STYLE ICON: Billie Jean (From the Archives)
Last night, I successfully introduced my collaborator Minh-Ha to my #1 fave film of all time, The Legend of Billie Jean (with Times Square and Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains running a close second and third). After countless viewings, … Continue reading →
Filed under (AD)DRESSING GENDER & SEXUALITY, THEORY TO THINK WITH
Tagged as commodification, film, outlaw, style icon, subculture
STYLE ICON: Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-cherry Bomb!
Los Angeles, July 1. Image from INF, via Jezebel, where the photo is much bigger. Yeah, I’m kind of totally excited about the Runaways biopic. Each photograph that emerges with the cast in costume –like the above, with Kristen Stewart … Continue reading →
Honoring The Prince
In one of the best commemorative events ever, Pop Matters is running a series of essays to celebrate twenty-five years of Purple Rain. In “The Beautiful One: Prince and the Fashion of Purple Rain,” Christel Loar contemplates the lasting effects … Continue reading →
STYLE ICON: Alice Bag
In 1977, Los Angelenos Alice Armandariz and Patricia Rainone formed The Bags, who went on to become an important (if brief-lived) fixture in the LA punk scene. What little footage I’ve seen of their live performances still sends shivers up … Continue reading →
