After a Fashion
This week, fashion goes viral
By Anne Harris, Fri., May 8, 2009
ARE YOU M.I.A. OR KANYE? Are you having a late-night identity crisis? Do the recent piles on your closet floor represent more than three different decades? Maybe you caught yourself walking out of the house wearing teal-blue enamel hoops with bell-bottoms. If writhing around on the closet floor in said piles didn't help much, you've forgotten the one tried-and-true question at a time like this: Which shoe is you? Here's a two-second late-night litmus test. Are you a sexy mini militia, one-deep? Are chains bouncing off leather as you ball through my hood? Then check out the bad boys from the UES Femme line (pictured, www.uesues.com). At $415, however, you'll probably have to choose from gold, black, or white. If the gold-plate is a bit slick for you, consider rigging your own with Converse high-tops, a few giant jump rings, and costume chains of your choice from a place like Icing by Claire's. It's probably easier to accomplish at home anyway, while cranking out fake visas, since you're already kind of set up. But if the chip on your shoulder is measured in carats and you're generally steamed, then you're more like the Louis Vuitton don. In this case, you better move your mouse and get in an order for the winged sneakers by Jeremy Scott for Adidas. Kanye has already been seen kicking them in white, but the gold-foil version is the obvious choice for maximum skirt reflectivity. Or checking yourself.
YOU'LL NEED MORE THAN A SHARPIE FOR THIS PANDEMIC Apparently Texas tea and the Colorado River have nothing on style for finding the path of least resistance. Even in the face, so to speak, of a looming flu pandemic, the opportunities found in a plain, green surgical mask can't be ignored. You never know when your artwork might be lifesaving! The fashion blog din about these custom masks is getting louder and louder. Unfortunately, dispatches from Mexico City and Asia have proven impossible to track down, and obviously we'd much rather know who is making them locally. After all, if you can think of it, someone in Austin is doing it, so please let us know, tout de suite. In the meantime, we found these from designer Irina Blok (www.irinablok.com, click on "Swine Flu"). The masks run $10, plus $3 for shipping and handling, and the proceeds all go to Children International (www.children.org) specifically to fight the epidemic in Mexico. Please note, the Domo-Kun mask (center) has been replaced by a duct tape model, as Domo complained that it is "damaging to the brand." Not very philanthropic of them. All masks can be purchased by e-mailing Blok at irinablok@gmail.com.
MOM LOVES THE POT Start Mother's Day early, and take the fam on over to Westlake High this Saturday for Art of the Pot's sixth annual pottery extravaganza. The Westlake High School Pottery Festival goes way beyond the candy dish to feature a student clay store as well as demonstrations and exhibits by nationally known ceramic artists whose work is not often seen in Central Texas. If you're still thinking pinch pots and coasters, dial up Art of the Pot's artists' samples at www.artofthepot.com/artists.html.
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