fashion

Monday Music News

The big ‘indie’ release this week is Garbage‘s Bleed Like Me and after a major PR assault, with ‘not too threateningly sexy sex symbol for geeks’ Shirley Manson even doing a photoshoot disguised as an interview (geeks can keep the kleenex in the box, there’s …

The Beast of Sydenham

South London is shaping up to be an extremely dangerous place to be – first there was the gunplay in Brixton, and now there are reports that a big cat has attacked a man in Sydenham. The Beast is described as being the size of …

Alternative Fashion Week

So fashion week came and went and…well, it wasn’t that exciting really. Even the fur protestors were a little dowdy this year. Which means there’s a lot of pressure on

Good for What? Good For Nothing: A Review

Londonist spent our Friday afternoon hanging out in the West End wasting away in the streets of nothing but trainer shops only to come up empty handed except for the second issue of Good For Nothing Magazine. How could we resist the cover design of …

Celebrities Torn Apart

Further proof that celebrities care little for the general public or welfare of the business sector was given today as ramifications of the recent Pitt-Aniston split reverberated around the plush yet oddly creepy halls of London’s

TV Sets and The City – Why Men Wear Frocks?

Wednesday night on Channel 4 and you can’t really miss watching a TV programme with that title – specially when you know it’s not going to be about pantomime Dames or David Beckham’s latest “fashion” statement. The documentary was hosted by Turner Prize winning artist …

Turntablism and Fashion at the ICA

We seem to have a bit of an obsession with the ICA this week, but they have simply been putting on some excellent events. Friday 21Media and Deal Real Records are launching The Art of Hip-Hop with Fashion vs. Turntablism. This is the ICA’s attempt …

London Fashion Week

Yes, this week sees the beginning London Fashion Week, and already the usual issues are raising their heads. First, the amount of fur on show at the exhibition has angered many, including protest group PETA who reacted against Julien Macdonalds’s collection, which included fox, chinchilla, …

Le Grand Frère Problème

As Londonist sat down to our Monday morning coffee and reading of the (internet-based) newspaper, something struck our eye: Paris culture police pull the plug on l’anglais chic. We were expecting some hot article about an English designer gone astray at Paris Fashion Week but …

North London Jersey Shortage

How many football tops do you think a premiership football club will have got through by this point in the season? Go on, have a guess. Fifty? One hundred? More? Well, if you’re Arsenal, you’ve probably managed to get through over 200. How? Because, in …

Free Binder With Part One

January is known for a lot of things: dieting, being skint, the sales, resolutions. But, in our hearts at least, there’s one thing which really makes January, and that’s partwork magazines. You know the kind of thing we mean. The magazines published by people like …