Fusing Art And Architecture With Delpozo
At the very imaginative crossroad between fine art and fashion lies the Madrid-based design house Delpozo. Spring/Summer 2014 brings a palette of clean, unfussy, button-up tops that can be effortlessly...
View ArticleFive Jackets That Conquer Fickle Weather
'Tis the season to constantly check the weather on your smartphone for fluctuating temperatures. Dress warmly, and you risk showing up late to the party of prints, cropped jackets, and summer embraces...
View ArticleSound Check: Sylvan Esso
In SOUND CHECK, we check in with some of our favorite musicians. Combine Amelia Meath's saccharine, sultry vocals with Nick Sanborn's smart yet playful pop sounds and you get the electronic-folk duo...
View ArticleMy Name Is Owen Pallett And My Music Sounds Like...
Just prior to the 2014 Academy Awards, Opening Ceremony sat down with the Canadian composer Owen Pallett to learn more about his Oscar-nominated work on Spike Jonze's movie, her. Though the artist...
View ArticleMeet The Man With The World's Largest Collection Of Hawaiian Shirts
They were hip in the ‘60s when Elvis crooned over a ukulele in Blue Hawaii. Then in 1983 when Tony Montana delivered his unforgettable, “say hello to my little friend.” Raoul Duke rocked one through...
View ArticleTie One On: Venessa Arizaga Men's Spring/Summer 2014
If you're looking for a little party around your wrist this summer, Venessa Arizaga's men's collection offers plenty of solid options. The contemporary jewelry designer began her career in 2003 at...
View ArticleCome Again: Kiko Mizuhara's Epic Pizza Ensemble is BACK!
Is there anything Kiko can’t do? Last season, we brought you the ultra-kawaii Opening Ceremony collaboration with Japanese model and all-around bad gal Kiko Mizuhara. Now, we're bringing back the...
View ArticleScreening Room: Ai Weiwei The Fake Case
Between 2010 and 2013, the Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen paid Ai Weiwei about seven visits to his home in Beijing, where the director had just one stipulation: “If I was recording with my camera,...
View ArticlePrep For Summer With These Festival-Ready Sandals
Judging from the tempermental first few weeks of spring, we're looking at a storm-ridden season. And lest you walk around in rainboots and a parka every weekend, preparing for potential rains requires...
View ArticleIt's A Toga Party!
Here's the truth: no toga party we've ever heard of is half as fun as the new collections from YASUKO FURUTA's Toga family, made up of the labels Toga Archives, Toga Pulla, and Toga Virilis. In her...
View ArticleStripe Fever: Bellavance Spring/Summer 2014
Bellavance is the serendipitous brainchild of design duo Nolan Bellavance and Ava Hama. For Spring/Summer 2014, they’ve conceived a collection of clean lines and vertical stripes that straddle the...
View ArticleIs Cities Aviv A Rapper?
Is Gavin Mays, aka Cities Aviv, a rapper? “For the sake of normalcy, I am to an extent,” he reasoned last month when we met in Harlem. But the more complicated truth is that the Memphis-raised,...
View ArticleHanna Liden's Bodega Bouquet
When I asked photographer HANNA LIDEN about the inspiration behind her new show, the answer was blunt: "It's obviously New York City deli." The photographs look like what might happen if a bodega trash...
View ArticleWorth His Salt: Angelo Garro, The Last Renaissance Man
Angelo Garro describes himself as “a blacksmith by trade and a cook, hunter, and lover of food by passion.” And mainly, "just a man who likes to have fun.” Fun attracts: In the past few years, the San...
View ArticleStraight Trippin': Jeanine Celeste Pang In Guatemala
In STRAIGHT TRIPPIN', OC friends and family share tidbits from their latest travels. This time around, Jeanine Celeste Pang shares her snaps from a recent trip to Antigua, Guatemala for her best...
View ArticleMade In California: Kenzo RTW Spring/Summer 2014
For Kenzo’s Spring/Summer 2014 RTW collection, designers Carol Lim and Humberto Leon brought their sun-and-surf, California roots to the runway. The inspiration was the water, and the result was, well,...
View ArticleVintage Hardcore Techno Comes To The City of Love
In a warehouse-cum-venue on Paris’ Canal Saint-Martin, a woman in a flame-embroidered trucker hat and a man in pre-millennium sneakers are doing a dance somewhere in between clogging and Michael...
View ArticleGet Active With Nasir Mazhar Spring/Summer 2014
In case you were wondering, please don't call Nasir Mazhar's clothing “sportswear." For his Spring/Summer 2014 collection, the London-bred designer incorporated both industrial and luxurious elements,...
View ArticleOC Editorial: Opening Ceremony & Magritte
As part of our year of Belgium, we've created a collection dedicated to one of the country's greatest artists, René Magritte. Twelve of Magritte's most iconic images have been reproduced on dresses,...
View ArticleSky High: All About Oil Pulling!
SKY HIGH ON HEALTH reports on nutritional, wellness, and green lyfe fads both crazy and helpful. Okay, so I know you’ve read about 50 different posts from 50 different blogs about this ancient detox...
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