A Lengthy and Mundane Explanation of the Fashion Hierarchy of Men in Brazil’s Well-Oiled Government Machine and Absolutely, Positively, 100% Nothing Else

A group of six looming, smirking white men in light grey, pinstripe suits looking into camera. The central man is agape in frustrated anguish.

|Zach Staads| If you really want to make a statement, affect some real change and be an upstanding, ambitious member of the bureaucratic body that keeps the lights on*—you should know the importance of bureau fashion and the importance it plays in… Continue reading

A Librarian in Hot Pants, a Side Order of House Music, and a Seltzer, Please

A woman (Parker Posey) wearing blue high heels, red stockings, a red skirt, red gloves, leopard-print jacket, and sunglasses walks down a sidewalk with buildings littered with graffiti behind her.

|Becky Welander| I was re-watching some of the early seasons of Project Runway recently, discovering that in Season 6, Episode 7, Michael Kors comments with disgust that one of the designs looked like a librarian from 1979. Michael Kors is certainly not the first or the last person… Continue reading