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Jocelyn Marsh wearing headdress by Tiffa Novoa. Image: Brion Topolski, 2005 Right now all across America there is a feather shortage. In April, The Billings Gazette reported: Jewelry-makers and hairstylists have been snatching up the premium chicken feathers used in standby trout-fly patterns, creating a sudden run on a market that’s ill-prepared for significant fluctuations [...]

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In addition to writing here at Social-Creature, I’ve been working on a fiction project, and am excited to announce it is finally ready to launch! (Click the image below to go to the website…) MirrorLAnd is an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, except Alice is now in her 20s, just out of [...]

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True Blood’s Anna Paquin wearing SkinGraft blackbird jacket in the current Venice Magazine. If, in the course of watching True Blood, you’ve found yourself thinking “damn, those vampires look hot,” — and, seriously, who hasn’t? — here’s (well, one reason) why. The stylist for the “postmodern” vampire series has been consistently dressing its characters in [...]

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If, sometime circa 2004, you were out and about at certain underground parties in the Los Angeles Circus scene, and saw someone wearing a particularly striking pair of pants (male or female), created from asymmetrical strips of leather sewn in a twisted, impeccably tailored way, like the trappings of some Mad Max forest nymph biker [...]

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Get your fantasy on! Some choice shots from this weekend’s epic runway show. Images courtesy of Apparel News: Skin.Graft Designers: Cassidy Haley, Katie Kay, & Jonny Cota: (photo by: half a second) And yes, I must admit I am quite proud of myself for having introduced Katie and Jonny to one another back in 2005. [...]

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NOTE: These two items are actually unrelated, I just figured I’d kill two fashion birds with one post. Stargate Outfits: Watching Hulu’s recommended shows scroll by, it suddenly dawned on me that the outfits that the cast of Startgate: Atlantis are wearing in the promo shot look incredibly familiar: Particularly the leather jacket, second from [...]

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My friends over at Skin.Graft Designs just discovered some way shady thief has been blatantly recreating exact replicas of their original clothing designs and selling them on Second Life. Skin.Graft Designs Originals: Sinistyle Designs counterfeit knockoffs: Skin.Graft Designs Originals: Sinistyle Designs counterfeit knockoffs: This is the first I’ve ever heard of anything like this, though [...]

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Skin.Graft Presents: Some very dear friends of mine, and some very fabulous clothing designs of theirs. This Sunday July, 20th 2 – 7 pm at Skin.Graft HQ: 639 S. Spring St., Studio 4C Los Angeles, CA. 90014 Ps. Skin.Graft is DEEEEEEP in the design process for their upcoming collection, and this will be the last [...]

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In Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter explain that really, there was never any conflict between the two to begin with. Counterculture hinges on, and consumer culture consists of, the expression of your lifestyle/identity. Whether you’re choosing to wear Nikes, Doc Martens, or some crazy obscure Japanese brand [...]

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