Three hundred years ago, the guillotine divided men from fashion. Ever since, the individuality of modern man has become an above-the-collar issue. The Great Masculine Renunciation underscored great ...
Welcome to click click, the sporadic review of what I find worth clicking on the internet. When asked what initially inspired me to draw the way I do, I have to pay a debt to Betty and Veronica. As a...
This was a delightful brief – to create original covers for a series of novels starring a mischievous, feminine, intrepid super-thief named Pochette. Working with the author Lucas Edel, I decid...
Watch live streaming video from modecast at livestream.com The third, and perhaps final, Modecast was a bit more freeform… so Barima and I babble on about dressing to kill, the best of the bulg...
Modecast, the internet chat show slash fashion media meltdown on which Barima and I wax neurotic on style under the influence, is coming back for a third edition. If you tune in live, you can partici...
Welcome to click click, the sporadic review of what I find worth clicking on the internet. NY-centric fashion photos from the collection of Fashion Carrousel, a treasure box of themed imagery. Via Lu...
Ryerson Folio is a student-run magazine published by the university I attended in Toronto. The founder and Editor-in-Chief Trung Ho invited me to revise and update a post I wrote about adapting to li...
You would think that in fashion, vanity would be the deadliest sin. Of course it isn’t – it is the highest virtue in our world. We brag about vanity, we flaunt it, we compliment each othe...
Welcome to click click, the sporadic review of what I find worth clicking on the internet. Photos via Rivet Head, a comprehensive information source for vintage workwear fetishism. American Mozart &#...
Have you ever wondered how I draw a fashion figure? You’re not the only one. This post was a reader request – thanks Eliza! My technique is not original – it is based on studying te...
We’re four years into fashion blogging’s California Dream. In 2006, fashion blogging was obscure and virtually ignored. In 2008, the mainstream fashion media turned a handful of street st...
Welcome to click click, the sporadic review of what I find worth clicking on the internet. Photographs of tailors at Henry Poole, 1944, courtesy of For Reference Only. Hat tip to Grumpy’s tumbl...
Heartfelt thanks to ALDO for sponsoring this post on Final Fashion. If you like splashing, smashing, super-saturated summer shoes, the SS12 ALDO collection is for you. Enjoy!
One day in the office, we were chatting about the issues we face as the young and self-employed. I was just back from my trip to Rome and I joked that there should be a patron saint of freelancers...
Since I posted about some of my favourite fashion queens, I’ve been alerted to a couple of outstanding omissions and discovered a couple new favourites. While not all of them are necessarily fa...
Welcome to click click, the sporadic review of what I find worth clicking on the internet. If you’re looking for vintage magazine clips, as I was for this post, the best place to go, as ever, i...
A recent fascination of mine has been the spread of Western youth culture across the world. Subcultures that are considered totally past their best-by date, mundane and commodified to us are incredib...
The origins of my interest in fashion were survey texts I found in the library of the small town I grew up in. Most fashion history books tend to be organized one decade per chapter, simplifying the ...
This was a serendipitous opportunity – I happened to run into a flatmate of an acquaintance in Rome while I was on vacation, and a classmate of theirs referred me to an organization in London c...
Welcome to click click, the sporadic review of what I find worth clicking on the internet. Paisley is another example of a culture-crossing textile – check out the Guardian slideshow here. Bruc...
I drew this version of Barbie for my fashion designer friend Adrienne. It was for a competition. I was very pleased with how the illustration turned out and it also met with the approval of Adrienne&...
When I read about this UN expert stating that Rodarte’s Fall 2012 “Australian” inspired collection was offensive, I was… confused. The designers had licensed the images from t...
Now that the picture is coming into focus, it is clear we chose the wrong frame. In the earlier days of fashion blogging (2005-2007) we chose media as our antecedent. We thought blogging was going to...
Welcome to click click, the sporadic review of what I find worth clicking on the internet. I found these photos of the zoot suit riots after reading this fascinating pdf sent to me by Ryan at Just Go...
Modecast, the internet chat show on which Barima and I speak of style under the influence, is coming back for a second edition… TONIGHT 9pm GMT/TODAY 5pm EDT. RSVP here for your email reminder...
Princesses are ubiquitous. Queens are epic. Here are a few of my favourite fashion queens. – Pharoah Hatshepsut Her story is a dramatic one. She is a woman who crowned herself king – and ...
Modecast, the internet chat show on which Barima and I speak of style under the influence, is coming back for a second edition. RSVP here for your email reminder and go get your refreshments for a s...
It may seem, from this blog, that I spend most of my professional life sketching at fashion shows and making pretty paper dolls. The lens of blogging can be a bit misleading because I also do a lot o...
or, what final fashion is Sometimes I say that Final Fashion is just a meaningless alliteration – but over the course of many years it has come to have a few definitions in my mind, the most am...
Welcome to click click, the sporadic review of what I find worth clicking on the internet. These diptychs of stylish couples swapping outfits by artist Hana Pesut delightfully bend and blend gender p...
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