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Tommy John makes the perfect undershirt

Today, whilst wearing my 3.1 Philip Lim button down (label drop #1) and a pair of blue A.P.C. corduroys (label drop #2) I felt something that didn’t make me feel so dapper. It wasn’t gas. It wasn’t a wedgie. It wasn’t the effects of too much Activia. It was my undershirt. My white V-neck tee...

I’m not as pretentious as I thought

I finally had the opportunity to sit down with my latest copy of Details and in an instance of kismet, I turned straight to an article titled, “63 Signs You May Be a Pretentious Tool”. I love it when Details does stuff like this. It makes me gauge my doucheosity and the article is a...

What’s the point of the wallet chain?

This fourth of July wasn’t spent at a picnic nor was it spent at a street festival full of American flags, funnel cake (mmmmm) and fanny packs. It was spent mostly cleaning my apartment, watching Public Enemies (more on that later) and browsing the monolithic San Francisco Shopping Center for things I didn’t need. While...

Old news: Macy’s Passport

A couple of weeks ago, I went to Macy’s Passport in San Francisco and I took Steve and Charles as my plus two. There was lots of food and I didn’t get hit on once. However, Charles and Steve did. I mean, why didn’t I get hit on? I am an angel. I am ethereal....

Project Runway? More like Project BORE-way!

Wow. The title of this post is beyond un-funny. Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke And is it me, or is this season of Project Runway turning out to be mind-numbingly boring? I’ve tried to like it and get really involved, but I’m just not feeling it. So many of the designers are turning out to be...

A ‘Project Runway’ jungle!

What do you do when you’ve already had Sex and the City fashion icon Sarah Jessica Parker on Project Runway? Well, you work your way down the “four cosmopolitan women in Manhattan” food chain and ask Brooke Shields from Lipstick Jungle to be a guest judge. Okay, okay – Brooke Shields’ style expands above and...

Project Runway explores Manhattan nightlife!

Dino-Ray watched Project Runway last night. Dino-Ray has yet to be 100 percent entertained by this season’s batch of designers. Dino-Ray is already tired of hearing Suede talk about himself in the third person. Dino-Ray is about to write his take on last night’s show. Last night our designers went out into the urban jungle...

Pictures from FASHION ON THE SQUARE

Here are some supplemental pics from the 5th annual Fashion on the Square event this past weekend in San Francisco (they go along with this little piece I just wrote for Examiner.com) All photos are by me of course… Looks by Virgil Ortiz A menacing violinist introduces the blindfolded collection… I love me a nice...

Are you looking at my crotch?

As I reflect on my transition into the freelance world (translation: when I got laid off as a staff writer from the paper), I am reminiscing about the moment when my boss told me I when I was on dreaded “list.” Now that time has passed, I think I can talk about it openly. I...

My half-yearly club trip to SF

I am not the club type person. The last time I intentionally went to a club because I really wanted to was when I was a drunken moron in college. Lately, I go to clubs, bars or lounges for special occasions such as a visit from an out of town guest, fashion show after party...

Project Runway SEASON FIVE!!!

So we are BACK with a brand new batch of Project Runway designer transients. Right of the bat, this group of designers, like Tim Gunn said, is the most diverse group of people they have ever had. Jennifer: The awkward one. Stella: The edgy rock and roll female. Kelli: The quirky rock and roll female....

Project Runway quote of the week…

Bravo Photo: Virginia Sherwood It looks like a handy wipe gone wrong. – said by Michael Kors in regards to Jerry’s outfit.