McMenamy's Vorticist Malfunction

Fashion Gone Rogue has alerted us to the July issue of Vogue Italia which contains a feature on Kristen McMenamy. For one photo Steven Meisel shovs her into some houndstooth potato sacks, anti-radiation gloves, and Leigh Bowery hand-me-down boots. She looks like a vorticist's wet dream.

Houndstooth Auditions

A still from Fabulon, a.k.a. heaven's archives. Dietrich is looking sympathetically at the fashion impaired in their duotone bleakness, and bleeding inside. Streisand is concentrating on balancing a goldfish bowl under her hat while trying not to fart. And the remainder are waiting to audition for the part of "MOST SERIOUS WOMAN #1".

Houndstooth Deconstruction Tees

Trust Young Lovers to come up with a an all too clever riff on houndstooth. I like this vampire teeth versus houndstooth but everybody has been riffing on houndstooth for some time now (including hatebrand) and it is becoming clichéd and tedious.

A Pig t-shirt over at the Skate Warehouse.


A Burton logo over at Tactics.

Stan Peach tie Tee.


Distilled's houndstooth Spirotee.


And of course the houndstooth queen Gwen Stefani has to have her say with this fading houndstooth LAMB Tee.


And on... and on... and on...

Betsey Johnson Skulls

From Betsey Johnson's 2009 Fall RTW. We've seen this skull textile in previous Betsey Johnson collections but I love it so!

I must be in a positive mood. That's two back-to-back posts of me actually liking things! Something must be wrong with me! More BJ skulls below. Maybe I'll do Westwood skulls next week. And then Tarina Tarantino skulls the week after that!!

Talbot Runhof Gets Houndstooth Right

Munich's Talbot and Runhof nailed houndstooth in their Fall 2009 RTW collection. Enough liquid distortion to nullify the obnoxious math of the houndstooth pattern. It's like stretched fishnet without any sense of vulgarity. And the typically harsh white and black monochrome is softened with what looks like cream or tan. Dreamy.



Go to ELLE to see the rest of the collection.

Saks Sucking in Vanity Fair

Groooooaaaaan. Found this ad in Vanity Fair this month. How embarrassing! From the plain and grumpy diva in the Dr. Strange cloak to her ridiculous consorts in their dollar store Venetian carnival masks. Flatter lighting than Lagerfeld's worst photo-books. Saks' desperate attempt to soften McQueen's edgy talents thoroughly undermines them and makes these outfits look like discarded costumes from some Von Sternberg B-roll.

Forever Freaks

Forever 21's latest collection on fabsugar.com. Houndstooth still in forefront. Hurl.

"Forever 21 is bringing a new twist to fast fashion with its exclusive Twist Collection. Starting Wednesday, July 29, you'll be introduced to a whole new whimsical, circus-inspired world of sassy frocks, tulle skirts, cropped jackets, and fancy tees. Lighthearted prints include oversized polka dots, houndstooth, stripes, and checkers, while silhouettes are entirely poufy."

They should have looked to Tod Browning for their circus themed inspiration.

Tundra Fashion

JD and I were stumbling home from Chill Winston when we ran into Steve who hails from somewhere in the Northwest Territories. He picked up this houndstooth igloo t-shirt up there. He was a class act and I actually have to admit liking the shirt... despite the houndstooth pattern. It is just such an unusual design that it works for me. Fashion on the tundra. Not the run-of-the-mill houndstooth deconstruction you see everywhere. But it does worry me that houndstooth has travelled that far north. Means even the cold winters won't stop the spread of this virus. We are doomed.

Lady Gaga as the Surinam Toad

Lady Gaga on German television. Only she would have the balls to look to the Surinam Toad for fashion inspiration. I still think she's a dreamboat though.


From the Honolulu Zoo website:

"With her back near the water surface, the female deposits 60 to 100 eggs. They are fertilized by the male and distributed over the back of the female. Eggs adhere and sink into the sponge-like dorsal skin. Within 24 hours, the female's back begins to swell around the eggs. By 10 days, each egg will be embedded in a chamber, producing a "honeycomb" on female's back. They remain on her back until fully metamorphosed (12 to 20 weeks), then push out through the membranes covering the pockets."

Houndstooth From Scratch

FauxBrains.com has a tutorial on creating your own photoshop tiles for the houndstooth pattern. These alchemical secrets should be inscribed on stone tablets and buried in an impenetrable vault below the caspian seafloor never to be revealed to the human race. The knowledge is just too dangerous. End houndstooth for good! Long live paisley!