http://cultofclothes.com Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:20:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Willem Dafoe for Prada Menswear 2012. Majestic. Like a vampire. http://cultofclothes.com/2012/01/16/brrrrrrrrr-its-cold-in-here/ The answer: it's not. That riddle is clearly the result of the muddled musings of a drug-addled writer. The more pressing question is how is the Miu Miu FW11 collection like the Beastie Boys? If you thought, same answer, crazy, you'd be wrong. Allow me to enlighten you. Exhibit A The Beastie Boys ... http://cultofclothes.com/2011/06/26/why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk/ Last week some clever folks from the Australian Christian Lobby got all up in arms because of this: It’s an ad promoting safe gay sex and it was on bus shelters around Brisbane. Among their complaints that would definitely earn them 100% on a logic exam were these: "Firstly, one of the men ... http://cultofclothes.com/2011/06/05/rip-roll-kids/ This morning I started writing notes for my next blog post. I had a grand, schemey scheme, in which I was going pay more attention to the lesser-known designers instead of just the designers everyone talks about. In an aside that I promise will make sense in a minute, it’s important ... http://cultofclothes.com/2011/02/17/once-again-beautiful-fashion-thwarts-the-best-intentions/ Let me begin the new year with a humble piece of advice to all the ladies hitting the clubs like it's 1989: it's not 1989, and you're not Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, so please, please, please stop wearing skin tight mini dresses and skirts that barely cover your poor, ... http://cultofclothes.com/2011/01/11/little-fibs/ My butt is asleep from sitting on a hard bench seat at the Hong Kong airport for four hours, but I refuse to leave my spot because I’m next to one of the few coveted power outlets, and I can see others with their dying laptop batteries eyeing me jealously. ... http://cultofclothes.com/2010/10/11/killing-time/ The other day I walked by a lottery outlet and for some reason I felt lucky, so I bought a ticket. I limited myself to $5 and picked a draw that had a poster with the word "millions" in the prize money description. I tucked the ticket away in my ... http://cultofclothes.com/2010/09/02/the-power-of-positive-thinking/ I am not a skillful bargain hunter. In fact, I have a useless, if not detrimental talent for looking at a group of fairly similar objects and picking the most expensive one as my favourite. I call it "a great appreciation for the finer things in life." My dad calls ... http://cultofclothes.com/2010/08/26/a-wee-spanish-brogue/ I’m back from my adventures! Are you happy to see me? I got married, I flew to Europe, I climbed the Eiffel Tower, I saw hundreds of paintings in hundreds of museums, I drove through the Alps in a thunderstorm, I got lost many times in five major European cities, ... http://cultofclothes.com/2010/08/13/to-the-beat-of-her-own-drum/ So I'm getting married in one day, which is why I've disappeared off the face of the earth. Planning a wedding is an exercise in averting your eyes and doling out money, thousands of dollars at a time and trying to project manage all your well meaning friends and family ... http://cultofclothes.com/2010/06/25/going-to-the-chapel/