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While everyone else is busy speculating about the potential significance of Microsoft’s new mobile contender, the Kin, I just discovered last night that I am much more interested in the content of their new ads, namely Portland’s March Fourth Marching Band, who’ve been repping it for the Northwest Contingent of the 1-5 Circus Scene since [...]

In April 2007, Italian Vogue featured an editorial spread by photographer Steven Meisel, entitled “The Greatest Show On Earth,” which featured members of L.A. circus troupe, Lucent Dossier:

The current, September 2009,  issue of Italian Vogue features an editorial spread by Steven Meisel entitled “Performance,” and involving a gaggle of cross-dressed models done up in decidedly [...]

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 [...]

“I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.”
- Banksy
Well, it’s the future, and fame has propagated apace with Moore’s law. Thus, it only makes sense that 30 years since the release of Fame, [...]

Of course, as soon as I say that I’m taking a break from writing here to work on finishing a fiction project something like this happens. Perez Hilton just posted some fresh out the oven images from Tim Burton’s new Alice in Wonderland Movie (due out 2010). Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks [...]

I had already joined the Circus scene when, in early 2006, I was consulting at Wong Doody and heard about a clothing company client they were working with called Edoc Laundry. The clothes had an intriguing concept: there were secret codes in the garments, which, if deciphered, would reveal clues to a mystery story. The wearers of Edoc [...]

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 [...]

A visual guide to your alternative identity fashion options

presented by:
The Alternative Apparel Catalogue

Burner:

(playa dust for your face sold separately)

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Circus:

ahem.

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Hippie:

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Hipster:

also,
Skater, Raver, Goth:
(all separate categories;  you get the idea.)

and here’s a throwback–
Heroin Chic:

Any questions?

Britney Spears has a new album out today, and guess what it’s called:

That’s right!

Britney Spears’ new album is called Circus, and this is incredibly interesting to me.
Once upon a time, I used to be the production manager for a circus called Lucent Dossier–

This troupe is actually part of a whole larger Circus performance subculture that [...]

image by Andrew Jones
Original post, October 16, 2007: “This Changed Everything“