Both the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri are included in Victoria's Secret's PINK Collegiate Collection, a line of lounge-around-the-dorm apparel with college themes.
In years past, VS has held online voting competitions (some controversial!) to determine which schools should be added to the line. Kansas State has been nominated, but hasn't won.
But since K-State's men's basketball team is still standing in the NCAA Sweet 16 -- and both the Jayhawks and Mizzou out -- it's time to reconsider the Wildcats. Hello, Vicky, purple is hot.
Introducing your countdown to KC's 10 most frequent fashion failures. We present No. 10: the Floater.
There are some dudes who cannot abide a head-hugging hat. Rather than pulling it snug, they "float" it, leaving a doofy reservoir of air between cloth and crown.
The result is Exhibit A on the right, whom we caught at the Riot Room for last week's show featuring Ces Cru, Ron Ron and Devin the Dude.
All night, the guy was preoccupied with balancing his hat just so. His date, meanwhile, was intent on dissolving the fabric between her ass and his crotch. No doubt that his genitals were ground into a useless mash of raw flesh by the end of the night, which is what any man wearing the Floater deserves.
Who goes to a high school to shop? You might, now that the Costume and Design students at the Paseo Academy of Fine & Performing Arts are opening their own store.
The shop, called Urban Edge, is housed in a previously vacant classroom and is still under construction. Students from Manual Career Tech came in to do the carpentry, erecting a dressing room in one corner and shelving on the walls. Mannequins Tonya and Thomas will soon be outfitted in clothes made by students in Pam Lucas' Costume and Design class.
Lucas buzzes around her sun-streaked classroom, showing off the designs that her students will soon usher down the runway at a dinner and fashion show on Friday, March 12, in Paseo's cafeteria. The fashion show marks the grand opening of Urban Edge. "These kids are in love with bubble skirts, even though bubble skirts are pretty much out," Lucas says cheerfully, pinching a piece of electric-pink satin on a hanger. "And tutus. We have six or seven tutus in the show. But that's fine. We can have seven tutus."
Clothes Whores: Enthusiastically examining Kansas City's sartorial shenanigans
The Snuggie is so last year.
Heather Searls, a bartender at The Brick and at Gusto Lounge's Topshelf, just created the Next Big Thing in goofy-ass, cold-weather wear: Jacketfortwo. It's a jacket that two people -- two people who can stand being very close to each other -- can wear at the same time.
To be fair, it was Searls' dad, Dave, who came up with the idea last fall. "Everyone in my family leans toward the creative side, so we all sort of jumped in to help out," Searls says. Her sister, Haley, made the pattern. Then, they contacted a family friend, designer Janay A, to perfect the prototype and crank out some samples. "When we saw the final product, we knew it was hilarious and functional, so we decided to go for it," Searls says. "My dad's a pretty funny guy."
The editorial content in some fashion magazines can be summed up in one word: painful. I'm done wading through obnoxious reaches for alliteration like, "Flirty fall frocks!" "Shimmery spring skirts!" Bring me a bloody barf bag.
WearHaus' Carmen Stalker and photographer Jeff Evrard are cutting to the chase. Tonight, they're showing off their latest collaboration: a wordless, bi-monthly zine called Faction.
"We're treating it as an organic project," says Stalker. "We wanted to start it and just see where it goes. It could turn out to be something much bigger than we planned. For right now, we are treating it as a creative zine that is really fun to work on and we hope people will want to contribute to it with us. We want it to be an outlet for everyone."
That whole going-to-New-York-to-get-DISCOVERED thing doesn't happen anymore ... unless you're Alicia Solo. The Beautiful Bodies frontgal went to New York on a whim last year and ended up adding her vocals to a Joan Jett/Gary Glitter cover of "Do You Want To Touch Me" by singer/songwriter and producer Brad Walsh.
Walsh's boyfriend, past Project Runway winner Christian Siriano, used the song to open his spring runway show last September. Which is how Solo snagged herself an invite backstage at Fashion Week just a couple days ago, taking pictures and sipping cocktails with the likes of Walsh and actor Alan Cumming.
"I ended up filming the Christian Siriano
show and all of backstage. Fun fun!" Solo tells me via Facebook. Other celebrity sightings: Amber Rose,
Mena Suvari, Kat DeLuna, CariDee English, Kristen Johnston and Audrey
Kitching.
More photos after the jump.
| The current crop of Rah Booty |
Amanda Nervig was already good at math when she enrolled in the Fiber Department at the Kansas City Art Institute, which is why she took to the Brother KH 930 like a geek to Comic-con.
The ominously named Brother knitting machine is Nervig's BFF, helping her speed through the creation of brightly colored scarves, dresses, sweaters and vests. There are usually a few knocking around Spool on 18th Street.
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