a dapper (and sometimes disgruntled) take on popular culture
Posted in Entertainment, Fashion, Pop Culture, Television on Feb 4th, 2010
I love Tim, Heidi and company, but as each season passes, I am losing interest in Project Runway. It has lost novelty and I miss the days of Austin Scarlett and Jay McCarroll poking fun at Wendy Pepper. Even so, I feel as though I have a sense of responsibility to watch the show.
Now [...]
Posted in Fashion, Pop Culture, Uncategorized on Dec 23rd, 2009
By far, Alexander McQueen showcased the best collection of any fashion week this year. His Atlantis-themed show full of sting-rays, eel skin gowns and ankle breaking alien-like stripper heels not only upped his game as a fashion designer, but his influence spread unto Lady Gaga who dons his garb in her “Bad Romance” video. McQueen [...]
The folks at Chillin’ Productions are at it again; bringing an army of fashion designers, DJs and artists under the roof of Mezzanine for their holiday party this Saturday:
Posted in Celebrities, Entertainment, Fashion, Film, Movies, Pop Culture on Nov 29th, 2009
Yes, I am an easy sell. No, I don’t want Tom Ford. I want his sunglasses (from his own collection, of course) that he wore in his shoot for GQ’s December 2009 “Men of the Year” issue. He was chosen as the “Crossover of the Year” for his Oscar-buzzing movie, A Single Man.
I really [...]
Posted in Events, Fashion, San Francisco, Style on Nov 3rd, 2009
This ain’t no mom and pop, craft camp accessories pop-up store.
DNA (a.k.a. designers+artists) will be poppin’ up in San Francisco with their pop-up shop on Friday, November 6 – and it’s gonna be poppin’.
The event started in New York and the concept is “to curate a multipurpose exhibition of emerging, avant-garde and contemporary fashion/accessories designers [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Fashion, Pop Culture, Style on Oct 7th, 2009
Now that the storm of fanatical outbursts over Alexander McQueen’s Paris Spring 2010 collection has settled, it’s safe enough to enter the field and actually say something about it.
Not having seen the live-streaming show due millions upon millions of people logging on to SHOWstudio.com to watch, I felt defeated. It was like I was Carrie [...]
Posted in Designers, Entertainment, Fashion, Pop Culture, Style on Sep 30th, 2009
Since my name is Dino, I think I may have a bias to Jeremy Scott’s Spring/Summer 2010 collection:
Photo credit: Getty/Geoff Pugh
This is the first post about Fashion Week since I was in New York – even when I was in New York, I hardly posted anything on any shows because, frankly, there really wasn’t anything [...]
Posted in Actors, Celebrities, Entertainment, Fashion, Film, Movies, Pop Culture, Television, Work on Aug 17th, 2009
When I did my interview with Margaret Cho for Hyphen Magazine (yes, this is a shameless name drop) I asked her about the state of Asian Americans in entertainment and she answered…
There’s a great crop of (Asian American) talent. There are a couple of more Asian faces here and there – that is great. The [...]