HOW TO DRESS LIKE ME, A FASHION GOD
By Julia Block You are a liberal arts/STEM major attending an art school. And while high school classified you as hipster, college is a whole new ball game. Now, your Adidas Superstars and Fjällräven Kånken backpack seems so passé, especially compared to the thrift-store-swaddled ceramics major wearing Yeezys who just ordered a sextuple shot of […]
Refuge For Men: Business Built from a Shoebox Gives Back to the Community
By Nicole Long Refuge For Men Barber Shop, a local favorite, has a reputation of giving Richmonders hip haircuts– but it is more than just that. Dot Reid, owner of Refuge For Men Barber Shop, has found her own refuge in giving back to the community. The inspiration for Refuge For Men started with a […]
Artist Profile: Xavier Render, aspiring photographer
By Brianna Scott Photos by Xavier Render A Richmond native from the East End side of the city, Xavier Render wants to make his mark in the Richmond photography scene. The self-described “mysterious introvert” likes to capture portraits, candids and city life. Everyone is on Instagram and that’s no different for Render, who has a […]
Fashion Rant: Cringing Festival Fashion
By Allison Oberlin Coachella began on April 14th, marking the official beginning to summer festival season as well as a series of shady memes. Among them was an image of Johnny Depp as Tonto in The Lone Ranger, with the caption, “Every girl walking into Coachella like”. This joke really isn’t that funny, because it’s […]
Ode to the Paper Magazine
by Allison Oberlin I’d love to have a seat and spend some time with you With your magical photographs and advice on good Thai food With your thick pages filled with influencers and flare That somehow gets ink on my fingers …. like everywhere For those with men troubles Those who want to have […]
Fashion Rant Friday: Anti-Social Social Club
By Tahmari Tupponce I love streetwear. Love, love, love it. The fact that you can go to a thrift store, cut up an old Champion hoodie, buy $2 Adidas sweatpants with stains, and somehow still manage to look like Rihanna? Unbelievable. But streetwear has failed me, and has been failing all of us for the […]
Fashion Crush Friday: Grace Coddington
By Allison Oberlin It is high time to acknowledge one of the most inspiring figures in fashion, who serves as the measuring stick for any magazine’s creative director. Grace Coddington or “The Cod” grew up in a small area in the United Kingdom and began her modeling career through a photo contest in Vogue. With […]
Plum Dungeon: A Collective Dream Space
By Alyssa Michener Photos by Celeste Fuentes Video by Alyssa Michener, Zephyr Sheedy and Julian McBain With my iPhone flashlight guiding me, I walked through a narrow alley and eventually found my way to a flight of unstable steps that led to the Plum Dungeon venue. When I enter house shows, I am usually met […]
Fashion Rant Friday: Vetements
By Cierra Artis This is a tough topic for me to tackle because at one point I was completely enamored by this brand. Like most of us who became part of Vetements’ following (which upon greater reflection is friggin’ huge. Honestly, way too big for a label that is only capable of piggybacking shit off […]
Fashion Crush: kpop
By Shelby Herndon “Why would you listen to music that you can’t even understand?” is probably the most common phrase I hear when I mention kpop music. Some people simply do not know what it is or do not like the music. Regardless of how you feel about it, kpop and it’s influence […]
Throw Your Shit Away: the Minimalist Lifestyle
By Ivy Kenton Minimalism is a documentary on Netflix that explores the recently trending minimalist lifestyle. The documentary snakes through the individual stories of Ryan Nicodemus and Joshua Millburn, two millennial men known as “the minimalists,” who traded their corporate lives for lives with less substance and more simplicity around 10 years ago. The film […]
Fashion Crush: Rei Kawakubo
By Allison Oberlin On May 1st the Metropolitan Museum of Art will unveil its latest Costume and Textiles exhibit with Rei Kawakubo as the focus. This will be the second time the museum will cover a living designer, the other being Yves Saint Laurent. Both Kawakubo and Laurent a known for a lifetime’s worth of […]