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COUTE QUE COUTE: URBAN OUTFITTERS NY PRESENTS: DIY OR DIE / A DO-IT-YOURSELF FASHION WORKSHOP / JULY 12, 2009

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:44:00 -0400

COUTE QUE COUTE: URBAN OUTFITTERS NY PRESENTS: DIY OR DIE / A DO-IT-YOURSELF FASHION WORKSHOP / JULY 12, 2009:

Yay! Girls who do make things teaching girls who’ve never made anything to make things that look like crap. Sounds rad! Just like Etsy’s bullshit craft nite. Some of us lived through well-meaning attempts to distress denim the first time around. It always looks exactly as cheesy and homemade as it is. In the words of a well-known knitwear consultant who we love dearly: “You made that, didn’t you?”

I seriously hope that running this workshop isn’t a first-time experience for the ladies who write the blogs hosting this event, but I expect it is. Hope they’re ready for the angst that comes from managing the frustration and tears when workshop participants inevitably discover in the course of trying to follow instructions that making beautiful things by hand really isn’t something that just anyone can do.

DIY? This is how it’s done, bitches.

<3 pvb

Learning things from Fabulon is awesome! Kiki de Montparnasse...

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:23:25 -0400

Learning things from Fabulon is awesome! Kiki de Montparnasse was an actual person (with an awesomely familiar haircut), rather than a mere sex shop with delusions of grandeur.

<3 pvb

Spring 2010 preview from the Viridi-anne (via Fashionisto) If...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:45:06 -0400

Spring 2010 preview from the Viridi-anne (via Fashionisto)

If the gorgeousness of this preview is any indication, the rest of the collection will officially be to dirty for spring/summer. Almost as georgeously dirty as Sinner/Saint’s lone foray into production for the ill-fated Bête-Noire for S/S 2008 (which showed privately in 2007 — I can’t believe it’s been that long!).

<3 pvb

From a collection of the worst possible 33 1/3 titles (via...

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:06:00 -0400

From a collection of the worst possible 33 1/3 titles (via jima). There’s another set here, but the only one that was funny in that set was Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, because the joke was so obvious. This one’s pretty much only funny to superfans of Heavenly Creatures or true crime weirdos.

xoxo c. hotpoint

Julius, Spring 2010 men.style.com has a pretty fair overview of...

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:08:00 -0400

Julius, Spring 2010

men.style.com has a pretty fair overview of reasonably accessible bleeding-edge menswear, as profiled in Safety Last. They cover Rick Owens, Julius, BLAAK (which I don’t care for), Juun.J and Odyn Vovk. This is good stuff. Meanwhile, Zana of Garbage Dress fame will be at both the Julius and Juun.J shows in Paris today, and it looks like she’ll be at Damir Doma too. Yeah, I’m pretty green with it.

In general, I don’t get a lot of joy out of S/S collections because I generally live in fear of sunshine and heat, but enough nice things come off the runways since stompfest kicked off in Milan that I’m getting excited about our next round of patterns. You know, the ones for next year. Meanwhile, both Cindy and I have to get the first group finalized for download and printing and hopefully get some ad coverage. This ≠ fun. There’s nothing like revisiting the mechanics of construction several months after the fact to make me absolutely sick of something that I was totally in love with just a few weeks ago when the photos came back.

BTW, does anyone want to buy a fine-sport weight knitting machine with a ribbing bed, lace carriage, color changer, KnitLeader, full set of tools and a small selection of craptacular commercial acrylic? It can be yours for $1000 if you come to Brooklyn to get it.

<3 pvb

La Snacks — Roman Yell Austin, we miss you. And...

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:30:24 -0400

La Snacks — Roman Yell

Austin, we miss you. And we’re jealous ‘cause La Snacks is so your next big thing. And those Woven Bones kids ain’t bad either!

xoxo c. hotpoint, who sometimes just doesn’t have enough fun at shows in NYC anymore

Patrick Wolf - Highline Ballroom 06/23/2009 (photo by Amanda...

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:07:56 -0400

Patrick Wolf - Highline Ballroom 06/23/2009 (photo by Amanda Hatfield)

Yeah, he really is the prettiest boy on Earth.

<3 pvb

youmightfindyourself: it’s coming. Christ, what Mr. Hare does is...

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:32:20 -0400

youmightfindyourself:

it’s coming.

Christ, what Mr. Hare does is gorgeous. Could a guy who buys the Orwell just call me, please? If the rest of the picture matches the shoes, I’m sure we can work things out.

Also, criminy YMFY, do you actually like this sweater? Are you interested in one that fits you and probably just you that is made out of a fiber that doesn’t pill like this one, or hang like a misshapen dishtowel? Seriously, let us know. We’ll build you one for a nominal fee if you don’t mind the pattern being available to the general public. (It would be a basic pattern, not your specifics.)

<3 pvb

Patrick Wolf - Highline Ballroom 06/23/2009 (photo by Devyn...

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:20:00 -0400

Patrick Wolf - Highline Ballroom 06/23/2009 (photo by Devyn Manibo)

Last night’s show was mesmerizing, though miles away from the baby grand one-night-stand at Le Poisson Rouge a couple of months ago. Last night, ladies and gays, was a rock show, resplendent with glitter, leather and a piece of jewelry that brings a whole new meaning to “put a ring on it.”

Also: Even though they nearly cleared the floor, The Living Things might be our new sleazetastic flavor of the week. For about 20 minutes, it was 1973. In addition to our lovely selves + Madison, only the pretty tranny to our left seemed to enjoy the experience.

<3 pvb, who has a slight headache that she’s convinced is associated with the cloud of crack smoke she unwittingly walked through on 6th Ave near Christopher St.

Wallpaper’s Typeface Tart Cards Tart cards are the means...

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:45:00 -0400

Wallpaper’s Typeface Tart Cards

Tart cards are the means by which many London prostitutes advertise their services. Step into almost any central London phone box and you can contemplate up to 80 cards inviting you to be tied, teased, spanked or massaged.

Even if a police crackdown, the internet and the increasing use of mobile phones suggest their days are numbered, tart cards are still so pervasive they are now regarded as items of accidental art and have something of a cult following. Once on the periphery of design, tart cards have influenced the work of many mainstream artists such as Royal Academician Tom Phillips and Sex Pistols designer Ray and Nils Stevenson.

It was almost impossible to pick just one to feature; all are fantastic and thought-provoking. But, you know. I use Mrs. Eaves a lot …

xoxo c. hotpoint, hot type lover

ps — you know Helvetica is such a slut.

011 Florence & The Machine "rabbit heart"

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:12:00 -0400

(via prettymonkeystudio)

We have come to the point in the development of user-generated content where fan videos are infinitely more awesome than the official one.

Created from footage pulled from the 1935 film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Max Reinhardt. Relatedly, Pinkie is reading Angela Carter’s Wise Children currently, which is loosely based on the production of this film.

xoxo c. hotpoint

Freemasons feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor “Heartbreak Make Me A...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:45:00 -0400

Freemasons feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor “Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer”

Oh people, it’s seriously time to go out daaaaaancing, isn’t it?

xoxo c. hotpoint

ps — grooooovejet!

poster design by Zach Hobbs for Alamo Drafthouse, Austin. I love...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:18:55 -0400

poster design by Zach Hobbs for Alamo Drafthouse, Austin.

I love this movie & I love Zach’s posters. And I miss the Alamo Drafthouse like woah.

xoxo c. hotpoint

Patrick Wolf - Hard Times Late night treats via Coûte que...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:06:52 -0400

Patrick Wolf - Hard Times

Late night treats via Coûte que coûte.

Six days until Mr. Wolf plays the Highline. Of course, we’re going. And Madison is coming with, which means there will be sequins!

<3 pvb

Kate Moss for Longchamp, photo by Mert Alas and Marcus...

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:20:00 -0400

Kate Moss for Longchamp, photo by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott

Seriously? That’s Kate Moss? Then again, Mert and Marcus always do transformative things with her.

Love the mess of uniformed lads, though. I want one to carry my handbag about!

xoxo c. hotpoint

from Northwestern Library’s digital collection of WWII...

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:44:11 -0400

from Northwestern Library’s digital collection of WWII propaganda posters. (via chacal la chase)

Blur’s Alex James Models the Latest Summer Looks (via...

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:51:00 -0400

Blur’s Alex James Models the Latest Summer Looks (via Telegraph)

You guys! Alex is still mondo-adorable! Love the lemon trou & ~~navy~~ cerulean blazer combo.

xoxo c. hotpoint

All the high points of South Austin are the star of the latest...

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:54:31 -0400

All the high points of South Austin are the star of the latest Anthropologie catalog, including the best record store in the known universe, End of an Ear (above).

I’ll be honest, it’s a little weird to see a catalog fetishizing my previous life in Austin … three years after the fact. Especially when it’s Anthropologie, a store which, as a 30-something woman, I have a total love/hate relationship with. Which is to say, I’m rather conflicted about the fact that Anthropologie perfectly targets all my aesthetic sweet spots so that I feel utterly pandered to every time I visit the website or crack open the catalog or go into one of the shops. Plus, it’s part of the evil Urban Outfitters empire!

That being said, I totally want that sofa on page 40.

xoxo c. hotpoint, who wants to go record shopping. but only at end of an ear.

Tammie Brown — The Ballad of Tiger Lily (via...

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:46:34 -0400

Tammie Brown — The Ballad of Tiger Lily (via Produzentin)

(Goodness, so much for my Out of Office post. I’m posting more today than I have in weeks!)

Our beloved Tammie Brown, late of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and the most awesomely bizzaro queen this side of the Rio Grande, has a new EP, Popcorn, out on iTunes!

xoxo c. hotpoint

Homotography: Photography with Homosexual Tendencies

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:39:00 -0400

Homotography: Photography with Homosexual Tendencies:

This weekend as I partied with some lovely friends at a notorious hipster watering-hole in Williamsburg, an uncouth, drunk young man asked me, after I rebuffed his advances, if I was ‘a homosexual.’

I cut him down verbally and let him know that I most certainly preferred men, but not men such as he — after which he slunk off to lick his wounds with some other ladies nearby.

However, I realized after the fact that I probably should have introduced him to my inner fag. You know, longtime dear readers, that same inner fag who FUCKING FLIPPED OUT when I found Homotography about five minutes ago. Heaven knows how this blog escaped my notice for this long, but it’s defintely on my daily to-read list now. It’s the perfect blend of ‘art’ and ‘beefcake’ — purrrrfect!

It’s raining men, hallelujah, etc. xoxo c. hotpoint