Don't Get Summer Fridays? Make 'Em Up
In a perfect world, Summer Fridays would be a God-given right. Come tomorrow afternoon, we'd all link up in the summer heat, with plenty of time to burn. But, reality has you sitting in the office,...
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News Fit To Wear: Band Of Outsiders Men's Fall/Winter 2014
While shooting Spring 2013's campaign, set against the Los Angeles Times building, BAND OF OUTSIDERS frontman SCOTT STERNBERG became intrigued by the many iconic aspects of print media’s storied...
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Did You Try It? Pie-Flavored Salt Water Taffy
A blog series, in which OC staff procures the wackiest, most buzzed about junk-slash-fad food on the global market, then conducts highly professional taste tests. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Salty Road Salty...
View ArticleAstrology IRL: The Spiral Is About To Get Sacred
If you felt like you were spiraling in the first half of 2014, get ready for a complete reversal of fortune. The spiral is about to get sacred. In the past, planetary forces and retrogrades combined to...
View ArticleThe Look: William Strobeck
In THE LOOK, OC friends drop by to try on our favorite new arrivals and tell us about their wardrobe preferences past and present. This week, OC's Lissy Trullie interviews William Strobeck. William...
View ArticleBoiling It Down: How To Make Lobster Porn
Before the railway expansion, before the days of surf-and-turf dinners, the lobster was a humble meal: “chewable fuel,” as David Foster Wallace once so eloquently described it. This was before trains...
View ArticleHappy National Friendship Day, XO OC
National Friendship Day is this Sunday, August 3, which got us thinking, How do you define friendship? The definition eludes us, much like that of "love" or saudade, but describing it in context?...
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Week In Haiku: July 28
WEEK IN HAIKU is a week in review for the well-dressed––and the well-versed. Happy Friendship Day! The best gift your BFF has given to YOU? Making the perfect holey shirt got easier. Just add memories....
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Molto Sexy: Moschino Pre-Fall 2014
Jeremy Scott's debut Pre-Fall collection for Moschino is very much the apple of our eye—we've already written about the incredible handbags and backpacks—and now, we're turning our attention to the...
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Belgian Slang Dictionary - Mitraille
Sure, you can order a pommes-frites with curry ketchup and pronounce Dries Van Noten's name without a hitch. But can you really get by in Belgium? Our Slang Dictionary will make sure of it. One thing...
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Designer's Diary: Helen Lawrence
Say hello to Helen Lawrence, 27-year-old East Londoner and knitwear virtuoso whose eponymous line is now sold exclusively at Opening Ceremony! In honor of her gorgeous collection arriving at our new...
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A Weekend With Surf Babe Quincy Davis
While we're sitting at our desks this summer dreaming of salty ocean spray and white-sand beaches, it helps to think that someone's job description includes spending all day long in the water. Rough...
View ArticleSimian Mobile Disco On Recording Techno Outside In Joshua Tree
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO’s upcoming album, Whorl, sounds like the music that might play in your head after a long, hypnotic night in the desert (perhaps aided by a psychedelic or two). Which isn't...
View ArticleBehind the Seams: Opening Ceremony's Mirrorball Print
Left: A swatch of Opening Ceremony's Mirrorball print. Right: Opening Ceremony Mirrorball Cuffed Anorak The '80s are back, in a good way. In Opening Ceremony’s PF14 collection, inspiration didn’t just...
View ArticleA Lesson In Filipino History, As Told By Food
Part molecular biologist, part culinary experimentalist, Anthony Martin is a Los Angeles phenomenon. His latest endeavor, PATAO (pah-tao), named after his family’s hometown in the Philippines, is a...
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Wear With All: Opening Ceremony Curtain Sandals
There’s a reason to kick up your heels this August: Opening Ceremony’s Curtain sandals, your go-to shoe for the jump (okay, more like slow, sweaty creep) to fall. In shades of aqua, lavender, oxblood,...
View ArticleA New (But Old-School) Pasta Shop On The Bowery
Let us start with a bit of culinary perspective: in 1906, on the Bowery in New York City, a hungry night owl hoping to take the edge off the whiskey sodas could get a steak for 20 cents, a mackerel for...
View ArticleSound Check: Mount Kimbie
With stages amongst forests, raw food trucks, frites and beer stands nestled in bushes, and a limited capacity, Dekmantel festival in Amsterdam last weekend felt like a summer garden party––but with...
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Faux Fur-Meets-Sportswear: Gosha Rubchinskiy
Russian designer Gosha Rubchinskiy's latest collection—which includes faux fur, leopard print, multi-colored mohair, and gold lettering—explores '80s excess and hip-hop culture. The young wunderkind...
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Tap The App: Imoji
Introducing a new blog series, in which we intro the latest front-running apps on the market. Nowadays, there’s really no form of communication more profound than the emoji. Think about it: When you’re...
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