Vice Style

In this installment of Carri <3s, the street fashion futurist runs us through the three current shoots she rates most highly at the moment. 

My only real concern with these lip transfers was that I’d never be able to get them off, or I’d be mistaken for a Marina and the Diamonds album cover. After a brief pep talk, I collected a pair of scissors, a bunch of sopping wet toilet paper, and some really low expectations, and locked myself in the ladies' bathroom at VICE. Not even kidding guys, I emerged a goddess. These lip things are amazing, imagine Ron Paul meets Judy Garland, has a baby and then bathes it in flamboyance. I’m a total convert. 

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Growing up in a conservative town in the American Midwest called Zionsville, with its town hall based in a former church, let's just say I'm no stranger to the strong views many Christians have about clothing. And I can tell you that there is a whole lot more to dressing Christian-like than wearing W.W.J.D. bracelets and the souvenir t-shirt you got from Laguna Beach Christian Retreat in Panama City, Florida.

Not Carri in 20 years time.

Last week in NYC, I went to see the Cindy Sherman show at the MOMA. Since she basically invented the GPOY and pioneered deliberately grotesque and parodic hyper-materialistic styling and the way a lot of the people really into fashion dress, seeing the show was a big deal for me.

Many of you will already be familiar with the concept of dressing up young children in designer clothing as the most popular past time of washed up celebrities. However, it is becoming a favorite hobby among obscenely rich people everywhere and is now the basis of a thriving global market. Steadily rising numbers of millionaire moms from Brazil to Kazakhstan are feeling the need to create miniature versions of themselves in Burberry Baby and Gucci Kids in what looks like an effort to preemptively groom their kids into becoming totally materialistic assholes.

Anders Breivik, the hideously, almost cartoonishly evil Norwegian psychopath who killed 77 people supposedly as a “protest against multiculturalism” but also because he is a twisted, soulless heap of hate, announced during his trial on Monday that he specifically targeted people who looked "left-wing". He even spared Adrian Pracon, a 22-year-old Labour Party activist, because, in Anders’ terrifyingly emotionless words, "This person, Pracon appeared right-wing, that was his appearance. That's the reason I didn't fire any shots at him." Clearly, if this crazed-right-wing-gunman thing becomes a trend, politics aside, it’s going to be much, much safer to dress like a right-winger—I guess that will leave you vulnerable to left-wing gunmen, but, dude, have you seen the guys in Occupy? If they decide to attack you, just threw some gluten or red meat at them and they’ll shrivel up.

This brings up an interesting question: what makes someone look right-wing? In this age of women with the short hair and men who are—you know—how do you judge someone based on appearances? And, more importantly, how do you get the homicidal maniacs who are, even now, wandering the streets, to judge that you should live based on your appearance? Well, like this:

I've been in New York this week for the WAH Nails book launch and London downtown exchange-cum-takeover featuring WAH, Palace, Kesh, Cassette Playa, and Acyde, hosted by Grace Ladoja and Aaron Bondaroff, hence I'm writing about things New York.

Among the hazards of snowboarding at night, being hit by a truck is low on the list. Nevertheless, filmmaker and fashion photographer Jacob Sutton has insured that his subject, snowboarder William Hughes, can be spotted on the slopes from miles away in his custom LED suit, covering him from head to toe in hundreds and hundreds of little lights.

Weirdly, in Thailand, and increasingly in places like Indonesia and China, braces are becoming a huge teenage fashion statement. Which is pretty strange considering in the West, Orthodontic braces are ruthlessly stigmatized and they're pretty much a stand-in for adolescent awkwardness.

In Thailand and Indonesia, by contrast, braces are considered a sign of wealth, status, and generally being super-cute and stylish. The reasoning is fairly straightforward—genuine orthodontic braces are very expensive. In Bangkok, for example, braces cost roughly $1200, a substantial sum in a country with a GDP of just over $5000 a year, so all the kids want to wear them, because anything worn by the young and rich is obviously really cute.

In the Romanian fashion world, there are plenty of people who shouldn’t be allowed within half a mile of a pair of scissors and a sewing machine. Honestly, they suck hard enough for restraining orders against inanimate objects to be introduced as a thing. It's really sad. However, there are people who more than make up for that useless rabble, like designers Diana Bobina and Katia Guzun, for example. We spoke to the girls a few months ago while they were competing for the Triumph Inspiration Award in Berlin, where they took third place. Since then, the girls have both gotten their masters degrees, but they're still getting off on minimalistic, futuristic fashion. Their newest project is SaintHood Wood. Here follows their hoods.