Girl, You So Well Spoken!

nicholas kirkwood x rodarte... match made in shoe HEAVEN! my favourites? the lavender-heeled beauties below. there is something deliciously grotesque about the "dripping candle wax + reptilian texture" mix... these shoes are for play. loads and loads of fashion-forward play...

[spotted over at fashion indie]

q: what do you get when you mash together robin black: magazine editor/photographer and makeup artist extraordinaire, brett bailey: haute couture [cyber-]stylist, and oscar lima: designer du jour?

a: an unending well of amazingness. 

step 2? throw me into that mix. then add some outrageous metal headpieces, dresses fit for the haus of gaga (no, really, oscar is her costume designer), and makeup that would make miss jones herself swear she'd seen that face before... now, you've got the cover of the new tough's issue #3...!

you see, on super bowl sunday, instead of toting chips & dip to someone's house for a day of beer and football, i was picked up at approximately 1:15pm by a self-described "asian girl with tattoos". gorgeous, spunky, and carrying bags of health food snacks (well, if you want to call the vegan chocolate chip cookies we annihilated "healthy"...), she wore a simple chain around her neck that said "ms black"-- a complete contradiction as this girl is anything but simple...

hours later, i headed to work with a plastic baggy full of polaroids, feeling higher than a skid row crackhead. we had just made magic. if this is how it starts (my dream, that is)-- with robin and oscar and brett and grace jones makeup and 4 hours of listening to "warm leatherette" and "nightclubbing" whilst growling at the camera... if this is how it starts then i look forward to the climb...

the issue is coming soon. have fun with these crazy polaroids robin snapped for fun in the meantime! oh, and don't forget to check out issues #1 and #2 of the new tough online!

pssssst! check out this article on robin & the new tough in dazed digital!

spotted: a vice magazine editorial that gives you way more than just an eyeful of fashion...

i have to wonder who the target audience of this editorial is. while it may not be displeasing to the female eye, i'm sure that heterosexual male readers could have gone without seeing impeccably dressed male models with boners. or maybe that was the whole angle: let's make them so uncomfortable that they will focus intently on the sartorial decisions of the shoot's stylist in an effort to avoid the eye-catching crotch area of the model at all costs...?

i also have to wonder: are those real erections?? i need answers, vice! 

oh, and in case you were wondering, all of the male models are wearing tom ford for men cologne. maybe that is to indicate to us that the models were inspired by thoughts of the cologne lodged between the breasts, snatch (version a and version b), or bum of one of the models from those raunchy, terry richardson-shot ads from back in '07??

anyway, i, for one, am simultaneously perplexed and fascinated. thus, i have attached the rest of the shoot's images below:

there is something inexplicably amazing about this editorial. maybe the fact that the prominent eyes and nose of the model compliment that in leonard tsuguoharu foujita's artwork?? maybe it's the jil sander x raf simons collaborative effort? maybe it's tomoki sukezane's styling?? junji hata's photography???

i don't know. i won't question, i'll just accept. and bask.

sukezane's diary in tokyo maze. sotokoto, february 2010. enjoy!

[spotted at hypebeast]

when i go to sleep at night and when i wake up, this is what i dream about [because dreaming doesn't stop when the sandman evacuates the premises and the sun rises, you know].

i want the editorials, the magazine covers, the runway shows, the fashion weeks, the brand campaigns, the dresses, the accessories, the [sky-high] shoes, the fabulous personal wardrobe, the street-style photographer hoping for a glimpse of me, the renowned photographers shooting me, the everlasting marriage [to a rocker?], love, success, wealth, vogue, elle, paris, milan, japan, karl lagerfeld, christopher bailey, alexander wang, valentino, alexander mcqueen, christophe decarnin, nicolas ghesquiere, kate&laura mulleavy, terry richardson, gilles bensimon, patrick demarchelier, steven meisel, mario testino, peter lindbergh, annie leibovitz, solve sundsbo, ... the list goes on.

when i go to sleep at night and when i wake up, this is what i dream about. because the real dream happens when your eyes are open, and if i get to choose what happens--since i get to choose what happens--this is what i choose: