Gendy Alimurung

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Tokyo Fashion Ass-Whooping

I put together this little assemblage of girls from Tokyo Fashion Week, which preceded our Fashion Week by one month. Must Tokyo so thoroughly kick our ass in the fashion creativity department? I mean, they've got drama and weirdness down, obviously. Like, what's with the pink crablike neck corsage on......
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Road Kill Rug–Comfy Grossness For Your Feet

I saw this a couple days ago. Tried to forget it. But couldn't. Now here it is to embed itself into your very own retinas. It's a dead fox rendered in carpet. The maker, Ooms, says "The Road Kill carpet is a continues (sic) struggle between attraction and repulsion." Yeah......
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Fashion Week Diary: Amelia Toro's Butterfly & Bird Girls

For spring, Amelia Toro is doing flowing dresses with butterfly prints and clean, white ankle-length dresses that look like night gowns. Her models walked the catwalk with birds in little cages and birds in their hair. Femininity is back in a big way. Toro did sweet, candy-striped jackets with black......
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Fashion Week Diary: Upper Class French Girls in Samora

Designer Samora showed a Paris-themed collection for Spring 09. Dresses with slim bodices and flowing, ruffly, pleated skirts. High-waisted pencil skirts. Palazzo pants. Again, pink seems to be a color for spring, but when isn't it? Samora's clothes this season are sort of what I imagine every American guy's fantasy......
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Fashion Week Diary: A Wolf, A Snake, and Bai Ling

Why is it when there's something totally amazing that I need to take a picture of, a live WOLF for instance being walked by a model on a fashion runway, my camera chokes? This photo is blurry because the wolf was pulling the skinny model. It's at "The Green Initiative"......

Among the Size-0 Crowd at Fashion Week

View photographs from Fashion Week in this slideshow, by Ted Soqui.  It’s midnight on my fourth straight night of runway shows, and I’m trying to conjure the collective dream state (nightmare for some) that is Los Angeles’ contribution to the world of high fashion. Thus far, I have been scowled......