a dapper (and sometimes disgruntled) take on popular culture
Posted in Fashion, Men's, Shopping, Stores, Style on Jan 4th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Fashion, Magazines, Men's, Pop Culture on Sep 21st, 2009
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 blatant [...]
Posted in Accessories, Fashion, Men's, Pop Culture, Style on Jul 4th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Celebrities, Clothes, Clothing, Dance, Dancing, Designers, Entertainment, Events, Fashion, Jabbawockeez, Jobs, Macy's, Men's, Pop Culture, San Francisco, So You Think You Can Dance, Style, Women's, Work on Sep 29th, 2008
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. And [...]
Posted in Celebrities, Designers, Entertainment, Fashion, Heidi Klum, Men's, Michael Kors, Pop Culture, Project Runway, Television, Tim Gunn, Women's on Sep 11th, 2008
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 annoying [...]
Posted in Actors, Brooke Shields, Celebrities, Designers, Entertainment, Fashion, Heidi Klum, Men's, Michael Kors, Models, Pop Culture, Project Runway, Television, Tim Gunn, Women's on Aug 14th, 2008
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 beyond [...]
Posted in Bravo TV, Celebrities, Designers, Entertainment, Fashion, Heidi Klum, Men's, Michael Kors, Models, Nina Garcia, Pop Culture, Project Runway, Television, Tim Gunn, Women's on Jul 31st, 2008
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 of [...]
Posted in Celebrities, Chris March, Designers, Entertainment, Fashion, Men's, Pop Culture, Project Runway, SF Bay Area, San Francisco, Style, Women's, Writing on Jul 23rd, 2008
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 pair of wide legs [...]
Posted in Clothes, Clothing, Fashion, Fashion Labels, Journalism, Men's, Work on Jul 21st, 2008
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 am [...]
Posted in Articles, Clubs, Details, Entertainment, Fashion, Fashion Don'ts, Magazine, Men's, Pop Culture, SF Bay Area, San Francisco, Style, Women's on Jul 21st, 2008
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 [...]