The Fairy Tale World of Eyes as Big as Plates
Another gloomy weekday night, I was rummaging through the far corners of the Internet for some inspiration when I stumbled upon a post casually titled 'Old People Wearing Vegetation.' There was no...
View ArticleSound Check: Nosaj Thing
In "SOUND CHECK," we check in with some of our favorite musicians. You know you’re killing it when Kendrick Lamar hits you up for a beat. Jason Chung, aka Nosaj Thing, has also worked with Chance the...
View ArticleSeason Opener: adidas Originals x Opening Ceremony Baseball Collection
Major League Baseball's official spring training starts in a month, but you can start your season now with the newest adidas Originals x Opening Ceremony collection. Inspired by umpire and players'...
View ArticleBurlesque Meets Hot Dogs in America’s Heartland
In the heart of one of the most partied-out college towns in America lies a restaurant where you can enjoy hot dogs named after Bettie Page, listen to doo-wop and Johnny Thunders blasting from...
View Article20 Years Later, An Original Club Kid Remembers the Scene
“Who is this weird old guy taking pictures?” recalls Ernie Glam, one of New York’s original Club Kids, of his first encounter with photographer Alexis Dibiasio. Beginning as a ragtag group of partiers...
View ArticleGroup Show: Minty Fresh!
Ignore the fact that there's a snowstorm raging outside your window and give spring a head start with these minty fresh OC favorites! The weather gods will have to catch up.... Clockwise from top...
View ArticleKYE Fall/Winter 2014: New York Fashion Week
The prints change from season to season, but Kathleen Kye has both the oversized and the skinny silhouette on lockdown. The KYE Fall/Winter 2014 collection was demure color-wise compared to her past...
View ArticleThe Exquisite Corpse of Sculpture: David Altmejd at Andrea Rosen Gallery
In the days leading up to the opening of Juices, Canadian sculptor David Altmejd's new show at Andrea Rosen Gallery in Chelsea, the artist and his team of over ten assistants had fallen behind on the...
View ArticlePusha T Talks Teaming Up With Marcelo Burlon
“It’s goin’ down, I’m ye-llin 'Timberrr,'" Ke$ha’s Southern drawl crackled over the phone. I couldn’t help but find it ironic that this was the hotel hold music for Pusha T, an emcee known less for...
View ArticleGeneration Tokyo: A blackmeans + SASQUATCHfabrix. Pop-up at OCNY!
Starting tomorrow, Blackmeans and SASQUATCHfabrix are coming to a pop-up inside the men's store at OCNY! The two lines are bringing their special brand of Tokyo style and OC-exclusive pieces to the...
View ArticleLucio Castro Fall/Winter 2014: New York Fashion Week
“Retirement houses are an eternal source of inspiration for me.” It’s an unlikely statement coming from Lucio Castro, a designer who usually trades in bright colors and boyish silhouettes, but one that...
View ArticleRachel Comey Fall/Winter 2014: New York Fashion Week
Rachel Comey's fashion shows tend to have something cozy about them. For Fall/Winter 2014, her models were clad in buffalo plaids, quilted fabrics, and fuzzy leopards, their hair as mussed as yours...
View ArticleThe Gurus of Leather: An Interview with blackmeans
Walk into Opening Ceremony New York this weekend and you'll be in for a treat: a giant wall of patchwork leather and a team of Japanese designers teaching you how to sand down jackets until they're...
View ArticleJust In: New Opening Ceremony Handbags
My mother immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1987, the same year compatriot Sinéad O'Connor's groundbreaking debut album The Lion and The Cobra was released. And I couldn't help but think...
View ArticleStar-gazing at David Bailey's Latest Exhibition, Stardust
David Bailey's latest exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery is named Stardust for a good reason. The Rolling Stones, Kate Moss, Beyoncé, Cecil Beaton, Salvador Dalí, Jack Nicholson—you name the...
View ArticleArtist Jennifer Reiland On Why We're Living in 1914
“The two characters exist in both years,” Jennifer Reiland explained. In 2014 he is a security guard; in 1914 he’s a foot soldier in the trenches of World War I. She’s a porn star in the modern world...
View ArticleA Message from Humberto Leon on the Winter Olympics
Today, we’ll all be watching the Opening Ceremony in Sochi. And rightly so: there are few other events more exciting than the newest round of a more than 2000-year-old sporting event. But there’s...
View ArticleChromat Fall/Winter 2014: New York Fashion Week
Chromat designer Becca McCharen went to school for architecture. So it's not surprising that the final looks of the Chromat Fall/Winter 2014 collection were sartorial skyscrapers. In a room at the...
View ArticleNYFW Wearabouts! Clara, Day One
Dressing for fashion week can be tricky. But our women's buyers, aka the dream team responsible for many of the awesome collections you see at OC, can't help making it look easy. Over the next week,...
View ArticleSpring in Seoul: New OC Men's Spring/Summer 2014
In the months since Opening Ceremony's incredible SPRING/SUMMER 2014 SHOW last September, I've started to learn Korean, which puts me in the perfect place to point out the nuances of the collection...
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