Monthly Archives: February 2012

Fashionable Musings

Posted on February 26, 2012 by jess in Fashion Good, Fundamentals | Leave a comment

(A short while ago, the lovely ladies at Capital Oh gave Di the chance to guest blog for them. We here at SMC were delighted when Julia agreed to write something for us. Julia is my go to fashion expert and was willing to listen to me chat about Tom Ford everytime he showed up on a magazine when we used to work together. Julia has interned at Flare and V and is an all around lovely person. She even let … →

Sunday at OFW.

Posted on February 21, 2012 by tim in Events, Fashion Good, Fundamentals | Leave a comment

A Fashion show, as it turns out, is a lot of different things.

Cheating Heart

Posted on February 13, 2012 by di in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Back in October, I volunteered to canvas for donations in my neighborhood for Heart Month for the Heart & Stroke Foundation and my volunteer coordinator dropped off my kit last week. In it is an identification badge and red scarf I must wear when going door to door. I understand that I need to wear these items to represent myself as an official volunteer and not some scuzzy rip-off artist, but the thought of wearing something new right now – … →

Coyote Smugly

Posted on February 7, 2012 by di in Psycho-Fashion, Read, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

For many, many years I had to look good for a living. I also had to know how to mix a killer martini, carry a tray weighed down with fifteen pounds of glass and alcohol over my head through a crowd of inebriated morons trying to grab my ass, help drunk, crying girls use the debit machine, tell the party of fifty civil servants to quit switching seats so I can keep their orders straight, sell about $3000 over the … →

Some People Call Me A Space Cowboy.

Posted on February 4, 2012 by tim in Fashion Good, Read, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Mouthing the words ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ is pretty much the same as saying E=MC squared– if you don’t understand why it’s true and can’t explain it to others then it has less than no value. It wears thin sometimes– the constant grinding against the whetstone of convention. And I often feel like ‘who the fuck am I to stand up for or against anything?’ I think it’s the inherent insecurity that goes along with even … →

Torn down before she was even built.

Posted on February 3, 2012 by tim in Psycho-Fashion, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

CAN you erase an idea and by extension the constructs it manifests as? Memes are notoriously hard to eradicate* because it’s inherent in the nature of anything that behaves like a virus to mutate and piggyback. Usually though, it is remarkably easy to destroy a specific host.