An homage to Alexandra Wang for under $50

Posted on 5th October 2009 by Content Keyword RSS in Main Content - Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
One of Alexander Wang's home pages. Red-hot designer Alexander Wang , this year’s winner of the CFDA Swarovski award for womenswear, is the reigning prince of ’80s punk chic. However, unlike the actual CBGBs denizens we all remember (or at least our older siblings do), his women are rocking $80 t-shirts and $700 boots. So we decided to do a little experiment and try to recreate his look for a few hundred dollars less. While we’re not about to tell you that you can walk into any one of Brookl

Alejandro Escovedo: Not Fade Away

If life was fair, Alejandro Escovedo would probably be dead or in jail—and he would also almost certainly be recognized as one of the greatest songwriters in the world. A last man standing of not just bands, but entire scenes and genres, Escovedo has survived nearly thirty years of near misses—with fame and death alike—to emerge, with a gracious sense of understatement and a punk-rock grain of salt, as one of the truly great artists of the day. One of the youngest of 12 siblings in a musical

Cyrus Clan A Creative Bunch

Posted on 4th July 2009 by Content Keyword RSS in Main Content - Tags: , , , , ,
While Miley Cyrus is the most well known of Billy Ray Cyrus’s children, her siblings, both older and younger, have found much success of their own. Says Billy Ray , of his busy family: “They are all in the business. I wish I could say that Miley is the only one, but all my kids are artistic and love doing artistic things. I just tell all my kids to do what they love and to pursue their dreams – whatever that is. I wish they would all just enjoy sitting down on the farm and riding horses