| | | | | | | | | | | | "Who picks your clothes—Stevie Wonder?"
-Don Rickles
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-Don Rickles
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | |  | | | |  | | Starting as a T-shirt line in 2006, designer Shayne Oliver’s Hood by Air label shook up American fashion like few brands of its time. Mixing the heavy graphics and branding of streetwear with the avant garde touches of high fashion, the brand also somehow managed to remain unapologetically queer while also becoming a favorite of mainstream hip hop. VIPs as varied as Rick Ross, Naomi Campbell, Whoopi Goldberg and Hari Nef all appeared in Oliver’s front row at some point or another. Now after an astounding run, the brand is going on “hiatus effective immediately.” The news follows the brand’s somewhat surprising cancellation of their Fall 2017 runway show planned for Paris last month. A statement says that Oliver will concentrate on his recently announced gig working on special projects for Helmut Lang. Business partner Leilah Weinraub will continue to work on her film career (her documentary Shakedown will premiere as part of the Whitney Biennial in May). The brand’s presence at New York Fashion Week will surely be missed for the time being. Their last show was sponsored by PornHub and featured a cadre of “real people” models. Here’s hoping it really is a hiatus, and not an end. | | | | | | TV Addiction, As Per Gaultier | | Being One Of Those People Who Is Proud About Not Owning a TV | Sitting on your couch for hours at a time bingeing your favorite television shows may not seem very chic, but don’t worry, even couturier Jean Paul Gaultier does it. Indeed, the designer loves television so much that not only did he guest edit the latest edition of Télécâble Sat Hebdo (sort of the French answer to TV Guide) he claims that TV turned him into who he is. Even now he confesses, “I sometimes cancel professional commitments to watch certain things on TV.” Indeed, it doesn’t even seem that the designer’s TV habits are necessarily always of the prestige variety. He’s had runway collections inspired by thing like the Eurovision Song Contest and Dancing with The Stars in the past. | | | | | A weird weekend at the wide-release box office. For some reason The Smurfs have already been rebooted (critics hate it). Also for some reason, Zach Braff has directed an old guy buddy flick-cum-crime caper called Going in Style with Alan Arkin and Morgan Freeman (critics are ‘meh’). On the limited released side, there’s Anne Hathaway’s monster movie turn in Collosal and, Gifted, the film that gave us the internet-beloved unlikely love story of Jenny Slate and Chris Evans. Each has been better received by critics. Or, you could just make like Jean Paul Gaultier and decided to stay into watch TV. The second half of the first reason of Netflix’s The Get Down premieres today. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One great says goodbye to another. “Being skewered by Don Rickles was side-splitting funny. A gentle soul with rapid fire wit,” wrote Streisand on the day of the comedian’s death at 90. | | | | | | | | | | Russell Crowe, 53 (Gladiator) Jackie Chan, 63 (Ninja) Janis Ian, 66 (Not The Mean Girls One) | | | | | | | | |
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