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01/23/08 ·

LinkOut

Goodbyes to Valentino, Sex, Vice and Your Old Maybach

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Clean Sheets: Lenny Kravitz, who has bedded about half of everyone you ever wanted to, has become inexplicably chaste. Go ahead and hate. [NY Post]

Big Deal: Emerging designer Alexander Wang signs with Japanese megastore Uniqlo. [Mpdclick]

Don’t Go Away Mad: Vice founder “Don’ts” himself out of a job, trains his jaundiced eye back on the streets. [Gawker]

Peace Out, Suckers!: Valentino disses his fellow designers, takes his basketball, goes home. [NYMag]

The Ride: The Maybach in your garage is soon to be obsolete. [Jalopnik]

Bye Week: Perfect human Tom Brady continues to do opposition research in our fair town. Doesn’t this guy have a home or something? [NY Observer]

Generation Gap: Zac Efron is on the cover of Details leaving us to ask, “what’s a Zac Efron?” [Details]

03/19/08 ·

LinkOut

Wednesday's Women: Tomboys, Fillies and Crazies

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Blessed Virgin: Just to clean your palette, here’s Adriana Lima - maidenhead possibly not included. [Gawker]

“Pull your skirt down, Secretariat, we’d rather ride Chris Noth.” Maxim shouts what we’ve been too polite to say. [NY Daily News]

This is How We Do It: Menswear may change, but men don’t - or at least not so much. [London Times]

That’s “Sir Jasper” To You: Brit designer Jasper Conran gets his O.B.E. from H.R.H. [Times of London]

For The Boys: The Observer details this new “urbane tomboys” trend. Funny, we’ve been dating them since the mid-90s. [Observer]

Crazy Eyes: Meanwhile, Details accounts for the rest of the notches on our bedpost. We still have nightmares. [Details]

Cleveland Rocks: Wrath Arcane represents Mistake by the Lake. [Plain Dealer]

04/17/08 ·

Good Idea

The Ruling Class

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Flipping through our weekly quota of glossy mags, we noticed Michael Bastian’s rules of style in Details. We’ve been fans of Bastian’s since he left his post at Bergdorf Goodman to pursue designing, but we couldn’t resist the chance to give his rules a little polishing.

See how Mr. Bastian’s rules stack up»