Patterns Of Strange
Fingerprints aren't just for iPhone 6 recognition access this season—they're also the motif we're wearing all over our bodies. With an Opening Ceremony Fall/Winter 2014 collection inspired by the hand...
View ArticleCarol And Humberto Take The White House... For A Fashion Education Workshop
Eva Chen, Cecilia Dean, Anna Wintour... at quick glance, surrounded by chandeliers and design luminaries, you'd think we were back at the Met Ball. Only this time, the fashion crowd was mixed in with...
View ArticleInto The Fray: Marques'Almeida Fall/Winter 2014
“What would happen if you remade Almost Famous in a dystopian future?” That’s the question London-based design duo Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida seems to be asking with their Fall/Winter 2014 men's...
View ArticleThe Art Of Being Passive Aggressive
"I’m not mad. I don’t care." I’ve said those words and I’ve lied about them, like the women who came before me. My grandmother has this slow blink: You can’t tell from any other part of her body that...
View ArticleAIDS Is Not Over, OCLA Shows Their Support
Who: (from l to r) Lindsey Ortega, Daniel Wing, Greg Luna, Heidi Gaudet, Erika Flynn, Mark Saldana, Casey Rea, Bertie Jimenez, and Daniel Buezo Where: The Los Angeles AIDS Walk, a fundraiser that...
View ArticleThe White Cube Goes Pink, Furry, And Psychedelic
“To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.” In 1957, psychiatrist Humphry Osmond coined the word to describe his experiments using hallucinogens, and since, tales of trips the...
View ArticleSecret Tickets To A Secret Venue? We're There
In the heyday of the '90s, cult NYC clothing store Liquid Sky became the first so-called "rave emporium" in America. If you were someone of a certain age, you'll remember the husband-and-wife duo, Rey...
View ArticleA New Food Magazine, In Feminist Form
To render: In the food world, it means to “cook the fat out.” In the fashion world, to depict or to illustrate. And in the case of RENDER magazine, a new feminist food publication out of Portland, it...
View ArticlePrint Screen: Proenza Schouler Fall/Winter 2014
Who said New Yorkers don't know how to do color? This Fall/Winter 2014, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, the beloved Proenza Schouler boys, were color starved and pattern crazy. Inspired by artist...
View ArticleOC Premiere: Fade To Mind's Rizzla Remixes 'Trigger'
Imagine if someone created a chopped 'n' screwed version of Maluca Mala's dembow-tinged dance banger "Trigger." Now picture if that same person proceeded to speed up the refix to the pace of a...
View ArticleSilicone And Candy Colors: Xiao Li Fall/Winter 2014
Latex, silicone, mesh, and cast rubber? China-born, London-based designer Xiao Li has garnered countless awards for her insanely inventive designs and materials, and we're not surprised. Fresh out of...
View ArticleLykke Li Learned Transcendental Meditation Thanks To David Lynch
Since creeping onto the indie music scene with her innocently breathy confessional "Little Bit," from her 2008 debut album Youth Novels, Lykke Li has gone from taxi cab performances and Drake covers to...
View ArticleWardrobe MVP: The OC Varsity Jacket Is Back
Among its various achievements, Harvard is known for its rigorous academics, its settings in critically acclaimed films like How High and Legally Blonde, and, most crucially, inventing the varsity...
View ArticleSensory Overload: Isabel Lewis' Occasions
Frieze Art Fair opens to London’s public today, promising a visual feast—and infinite Instagram opportunities—to 70,000-some expected attendees. Meanwhile, as part of Frieze Projects, a satellite...
View ArticleAmmerman Schlösberg Takes Comic Con
Besides Opening Ceremony, where else in New York can you find bows, latex, leather, cuties in glitter makeup, studded jewelry, sex toys, and sky-high platforms all in one place? Comic Con, of course....
View ArticleWhat -270 F Really Feels Like
Sky High on Health reports on nutritional, wellness, and green lyfe fads both crazy and helpful. If Austin Powers taught me anything, it’s that shouting is a temporary side effect of the unfreezing...
View ArticleWant Henry Rollins' Tats? Get 'Em Pain-Free
During a 1997 interview with FHM magazine, legendary punk rocker Henry Rollins revealed that the first time he got a tattoo, he was just 20 and chasing "self-definition." For him, "tattooing was a way...
View ArticleAlma Restaurant: Foraging The Coast
When you imagine a chef creating a dish, you don't immediately think of a trip to the beach with friends. But that's exactly what makes Ari Taymor different from so many of his contemporaries. Alma,...
View ArticleAnything But Boring: Patrik Ervell Fall/Winter 2014
Understated? Yes. Utilitarian? Yes. Boring? Definitely not. Patrik Ervell’s FW14 collection proves that normcore isn’t dead—it’s evolving. In fact, we would go so far as to say this collection warrants...
View ArticleWill Thompson Would Be Lisa From 'The Simpsons'
It’s no secret that Opening Ceremony surrounds itself with the most unique personalities in the game—staff included! If you’ve walked into any of our brick and mortars, you’ve definitely said hello to...
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