In short, zines are the middle finger to glossies. They were all the rage during the ’60s and well into the punk-infused ’70s.
Aesthetically, they were rough around the edges and showed every Xerox flaw with pride. Zines were a DIY piece of counterculture and each of them honed in on a particular niche. From [...]
Category Archive for 'Museums'
I took an extra long weekend and went to New York for some non-Fashion Week related fun.
To get a little more cultured, I decided to go to the American Museum of Natural History and then the next day I went to The Met (a.k.a. The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
I felt so refined as I [...]
Emile Hirsch hangin’ out at a fashion exhibit?
Posted in Actors, Art, Celebrities, Designers, Fashion, Museums, Pop Culture, SF Bay Area, San Francisco, Style, Television, Work on Mar 8th, 2008
This week I got to cover a fashion exhibit in San Francisco that is in conjunction with a PBS documentary, “Interpreting Ancient Fashion”.
The event featured designs from the always lovely Colleen Quen and Jude Gabbard, a face I am not familiar with in the SF fashion scene – but talented nonetheless.
The two went to [...]
New York visit photo montage: The MoMA
Posted in Art, Entertainment, Fun, Manhattan, Museums, New York, Pop Culture, Travel on Feb 26th, 2008
I went to Fashion Week for work at the beginning of February – and of course, all the time in Bryant Park started to irritate me. Ergo, the fashion shows started to irritate me.
Even so, I did get to do non-Fashion Week stuff with my friends Janet and Erline:
One day, Erline and I (Janet was [...]