dahranjelo’s digest \/\/ pukpuk never made it out alive

October 26, 2009
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dahranjelo’s digest \/\/ pukpuk never made it out alive

PUKPUK, Peru Punks, Stargazers, Disco Geishas and Space Angels. We are living in the future that Walter van Beirendonck  kissed over 16 years ago.  The Wild & Lethal Trash site with PUKPUK had my attention for hours that turned to days. What was I doing spending so much time at his site? Playing his video game Space Race. Turn ON the monitor and twist the dial. It’s not  easy fashion but  there is technique or something more abstract. This bear and Antwerp design genius continues and will always be followed. Walter is one of the Belgian Antwerp Six comprised of Dirk van Saene, Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Marina Yee, and Dirk Bikkembergs, who all graduated from the Royal Arts Academy from 1980-82. He used fabrics developed by the very latest technologies in violently contrasting colors. He produced clothes that were full of erotic and sadomasochistic references, touched with a caustic adolescent humor. His highly confrontational approach relates to a resurgence of anti-fashion, but this time an anti-fashion with nothing in the least orientalist in its origins, instead based on science fiction that inspired displays of high-spirited provocation. SEX ME UP WITH YOUR PHALLUS HELMUT AESTHETIC TERRORISTS FASHION AT THE

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no one here gets out alive

October 26, 2009
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no one here gets out alive

Italian Proverb: When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

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grey

October 22, 2009
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grey

“Step steps Follow my blind Inside My self The secret grows” -Antony & The Johnsons

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gonna wash that grey right into your hair

October 21, 2009
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gonna wash that grey right into your hair

From women who go grey naturally to those that are coloring it, silver-hued locks are becoming a fashion scene staple. Will women be going to the salon and asking for “grey-lights” instead of high-lights?  Will you have to worry about your non-grey roots coming in?  Although I don’t see this happening in the near future, there definitely seems to be a silver-haired trend going on.  Daphne Selfe, the oldest working model in the UK,  has been seen in campaigns ranging from Dolce & Gabbana to Gap.  Most recently she modeled at London Fashion Week Spring 2010 for the clothing line Sykes. Carmen Dell’Orefice is also no stranger to the fashion world.  She has been modeling since her debut in Vogue magazine at the age of 15, but became more of a main stream name later in her career. After her hair turned grey.  She can be seen in Rolex ads world wide. One of the younger woman in the naturally grey group is super model Kristen McMenamy.  Recently, Italian Vogue dedicated over 31 pages to this grey-haired beauty.  The title says it all…”The Legend” Now of course the younger generation wants to get in on the trend.  Both pop star P!nk

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grey cat gumbo

October 20, 2009
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grey cat gumbo

Everyone is a slave. You, me, your boss, your spouse, your kids, your parents, your senator, your president… everyone. I don’t simply mean "slaves" to physical laws, to market forces, to demographics, to statistics, to nature, to nurture, to the good opinion of our fellows: I mean we’re all slaves, every last one of us, in the most basic of all possible ways, and our eyes are playing tricks on us when in fact, every cat in the dark is grey.

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all cats are grey

October 19, 2009
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all cats are grey

Grey is the new black. I mean blonde. Oh, whatever. Benjamin Franklin once counseled a young man to take an older woman as his lover using the logic that “in the dark, all cats are grey”. Indeed. A cat is a cat is a. You get the picture. One thing is the same as the next. And they’re all grey. Women, cats…turn off the lights and you’ll see. Seriality is the new New.

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dahranjelo’s digest \/\/ silver-tongued bowevils

October 19, 2009
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dahranjelo’s digest \/\/ silver-tongued bowevils

Ill-fitting synthetics, bi-weekly baths, and lack of personal de-lousing will get you buzz only a “fly girl” can swing. I have a pointy finger tipped with a dirty nail aimed right at your ass. “It’s comfortable,” she says. With fly eggs and cigarette burns. Grow and evolve like the maggot turns to fly. Photo credit: Joe Bahret

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the drunken boat has moored again

October 16, 2009
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the drunken boat has moored again

Welcome back to The Avant Guardian. Starting Monday, we have not one, not two, not three, but nine avantastic contributors! That is a big fucking deal. Nine is a totally magical number, and these are some pretty fucking magical people.  They run the gamut from hairdresser to window dresser to cross dresser to reclusive covered-in-fur dead people. So, what else is new? We’ll all be working around a weekly theme, so across the span of seven days one idea will develop, evolve, devolve, and veer off in a variety of mediums. I don’t want to bore you any with long-winded shite about how excited I am, so let’s just see what this new band of miscreants have to say for themselves. This is me, Tracey D, and I’m the captain of this here drunken boat. I live nestled in a moist, sticky nook of the deep deep south, where I practice aerobics limblessly and with abandon. My turn-ons include polyurethane varnish, sharp scissors and taxidermied roadkill trophies. My turn-offs are basically everything else. You can read my editorials on Mondays, but don’t get attached or anything. I’m not into commitment. Eileen Garcia is a photographer who lives in Provincetown. Try

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impermanence

June 29, 2009
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impermanence

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ricardo tisci’s return to reality \/\/ givenchy fall/winter 09

May 26, 2009
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ricardo tisci’s return to reality \/\/ givenchy fall/winter 09

The Avant Guardian, like most women, is a fickle beast. Last week I hated Ricardo Tisci for ripping off my favorite dark mastermind, Tom Binns. This week I don’t care who he rips off, as long as he keeps doing what he’s doing. The Givenchy Fall ad campaign was just released, and it made me realize that I had completely overlooked the line. And I don’t just mean this season, either, I think I’ve been ignoring Givenchy for a good long time. Well, Mr. Tisci, if you’re reading this, please accept my deepest apologies. When I saw this photo I let out a stream of curse words so intense they probably insulted people in all five buroughs. But, for fuck’s sake, are you kidding me with the bleached eyebrows and Spock hair? Way to make it hurt so good, Givenchy. Then I went back and looked at every single piece from the runway show and felt complete shock and awe. Fuck all the haters who say the collection sucks, and “is better suited to Gareth Pugh’s collection”? (Why is that a bad thing, anyways?) This collection is back in black and dead sexy, and, oh my fucking god, is that

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