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Downtown New York’s Coolest Store Launches Online Global Marketplace
VFILES is a downtown NYC store, or collective (depending how fashion-savvy you want to be), where cool cult streetwear brands are birthed and where youth culture connects to the established influencers in the world. Today, VFILES will launch its new global marketplace where contributors and young designers can sell directly on their VFILES profile on the website and on the VFILES app. This will give designers control of their product and their inventory and the help of the tools provided by th
- NewsDora Fung
The Must-Have Item From NYFW is...The Windbreaker?!
It’s day six of New York Fashion Week, and already we’re seeing windbreakers, of all things, showing up on multiple runways — and in this world, repetition means trending!
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Conjoined Cowboy Boots: The Newest Fashion Week Trend?
Shayne Oliver may as well be known as the designer that disrupted it all. The Hood By Air creative director pioneered the recent influx of gender-fluid, androgynous street wear that’s now seen all over the runway and, well, the streets. It’s no wonder his celeb clientele includes tastemakers like Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar.
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Hood By Air’s NYFW Show Was Sponsored by PornHub...and It Was Obvious
With sounds of people having sex as the soundtrack, bare breasts, and clothing with the phrases “Hustler” and “Never Trust a Church Girl” written on them, it’s almost as if a porn website sponsored Hood By Air’s New York Fashion Week show. Sunday’s HBA runway was, in fact, sponsored by PornHub, which explains the fetish air in the room.
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We Want Everything from Hood by Air’s ‘Empire’-Themed Collection
Creative director Shayne Oliver has channeled his devotion to Empire, blessing us with a collection that will absolutely delight any fan of the show. There are t-shirts and sweatshirts bearing the likenesses of the show’s colorful characters, our favorite being this sweatshirt boasting Hakeem Lyons’ ex-girlfriend, Camilla Marks, played by Naomi Campbell.
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Man Skirts Are Now a Thing, But Who Will Wear Them?
Menswear, like all fashion, is cyclical. Fifty years after Rudi Gernreich sent Peggy Moffatt out into the world in the first unisex bathing suit (the grandmother of the #freethenipple campaign), the man-skirt is having a moment. Rick Owens has been flirting with hemlines-for-dudes for years now, progressing from dropped crotches to full-on skirts.
