part one

bucking the draw of delving into sleep post calisthenics, divad q. nead hastily surfaces in hogye with the bends and depressurizes to christopher nolan's "inception", a haute couture jaunt into the subconscious of dreams.

down from a run in the foothills in a humid summer rain, fighting sleep, i ventured deep into the love motel district of old bisan to catch chris nolan's first original screenplay since "following", which I recalled struck me as wonderfully paranoid and thickly thieving b&w british. packed bag with gun, sandwiches, and three asahi premium cans, i rose eight floors into the old kinex 10 gone corporate, stuck sardine in the lift with florally tinctured local girls, some holding the wrists of their friendos. i was late for the meet, but ju-lee had the spots sorted and we hunkered into a couple's seat [double-wide], reclining opposite elbows, digging the corn. it was then that she sighed and said, "why not the imax, daw-ling?", to which i replied, "have you the legs for seoul, doll?"

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i've been hearing a lot about high/low concepts in meetings lately. clients from brands demand that we, the service providers, understand and deliver to their customers an experience that borrows judiciously from both the world of high luxury and that of diy. well, voila!

you have till april 12th to be pretend-scandalized by rankin's eat me naked exhibit at a.galerie.

don't you hate young talented people? yeah, me too. which is why i can't stand 19 year old brazilian designer pedro lourenço.

how much do i want to be a woman right now? a lot! and not solely based on my lifelong desire to menstruate while riding a tunisian camel but because of united nude's new collection. aaarrrggghhhhh!!!!... not fair!

it surely is impossible to tear apart the knowledge of his willfully early departure with his last collection but it must and has been said that lee alexander mcqueen's was a talent beyond all others in today's spread thin fashion world. there are plenty of ...
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and now, just because i can, and it's friday at 4pm, i bring you the lucky finalists of american apparel's completely necessary best bottom in the world competition. chose wisely. have a wonderful weekend. kiddies, kitties, shield your eyes...

i remember being a child and being held hostage by a rapist in his suburban light-less basement. assuredly, no laughing matter, but the fact that i was wearing a pale pink lacoste polo shirt, at a time when i was admittedly confused by my sexuality choices, did make the ordeal a wee bit more comfortable. sadly, this story of triumph over adversity did not make it ...
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i surely am not one to dissuade or even discourage the use of nudity in order to sell anything but i wonder about the effectiveness of such transparent tactics to sell these shoes. again, happy to be looking at over-designed tits but somebody should perhaps ...
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call me old-fashioned but i don't think chanel temp tats would pass coco muster...

why is it what was once a perfectly serviceable joke in a ben stiller movie eventually apparently inevitably becomes a thing in real life?...

the prada book, meant to showcase polymorphous creativity, is all kinds of nonsense. $150 for imagery that is neither original at this point or even transcendent of the brand is fucking highway robbery for a house that really needs to look at itself with a ...
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