Archive for June, 2010

No point going naked for F/W, because Uniqlo’s new season is just screaming to worn. The casual wear label has prepped five different looks for this collection: Grunge, with its emphasis on ‘90s-styled flannel, cardigans and distressed jeans; Glam, which touches on feminine pieces; Rude, that’s all kinds of dark colours and shiny sheens; Sports, [...]

Homegrown label ByInviteOnly is showing love for their motherland by giving locals first dibs on their A/W collection before it hits the shelves in London. A local collaboration between local graphic designer and a budding jewellery designer, ByInviteOnly is largely inspired by 18th century circuses and nostalgia, capturing the essence of the bygone era while [...]

Totally pleasant and charming guitar pop from New York’s dandiest hipster – good enough to fill the Strokes-sized hole in your record collection. Read up on Darwin Deez, plus 23 other hot new bands, in the special edition of JUICE’s July issue, available for $4 at all major book stores and news stands. www.myspace.com/darwindeez

In your fresh glass of JUICE: Say fashion for Henry Holland, as the man with the slogans takes us on a tour of his House. There’s also choice bits from Boy George, The BeatThiefs and Broken Social Scene to round out the rest of your musical pie. On the style end of things, read up [...]

Make your way downtown one of these days and you just might stumble on a bit of Front Row. Yup, your beloved multi-label boutique is making its way into TANGS Orchard with a pop-up store, stuffed full with curated labels like Flynow, Chai J. Red Label, Sanshai, adidas SLVR and Issue. This store also marks [...]

An annual music festival that is spearheaded by our future (aka the students), IGNITE! promises an awesome line-up of local acts like Plainsunset, B–Quartet and The Analog Girl to provide for loads of aural fun over one weekend. Do your bit for charity too and go sexily bald as the Children Cancer Foundation will be [...]

Well, they had a good run, eh? After reigning as one of Britpop’s top dogs (yes, take that, Blur!), Oasis recently decided to call it a day, but not before treating us to the requisite retrospective in the form of Time Flies… 1994-2009. This stuff is available as 1) a double CD collecting all of [...]

As if we need to tell you about Boy George. By the time you were born, he and his Culture Club had already given the ‘80s its pop sound, new romantics their movement, and androgyny its main face. In the years since, the guy’s never wavered far from the spotlight, being tireless in his solo [...]

Swedish model Ida Pyk isn’t going to sit idly while the world passes her by – not when, via her eponymous clothing line, she could been making all kinds of ironic statements on pop culture and politics. Ida’s previous collection included tees that declare, “I am a model blogger designer etc” and leggings that read [...]