AWK: Urban Outfitters’ Phrenology Bust
Have you been in Urban Outfitters lately? Did you see the Phrenology busts, inspired bys scientist L.N. Fowler, that supposedly double as jewelry stands? For those of you who didn’t study Psychology or Neuroscience, Phrenology is basically a pseudoscience which theorizes that personality traits can be determined/derived from the shape and size of the human skull. It’s been discredited (OBVIOUSLY) but was really popular in the 1800s.... Read More
Really, H&M? Really?
Dear H&M, Wtf dude!?! I’m pretty pissed with you right now. This New York Times article that describes how your company damages unsold items at the end of the season so that they cannot be resold and then disposes of these unworn goods as though they are trash is just heartbreaking. [Deep breath] How you gonna throw away new clothing like it’s pox ridden blanket? Like there aren’t tons of people, in all of the countries where... Read More
Template Angst!
“The Lady”, December 2009 Still having tons of technical difficulties with the new site re-design. The RSS feed address has changed from http://www.trendology.org/feed to http://www.trendology.org/blog/feed so please fix your subscriptions! This can easily be done by clicking the RSS button on the right side of the site. I’m terribly sorry for the inconvenience – this whole situation has been one big pain but hopefully in... Read More
3am coat angst
Tuesday night, my friend Josh and I went on an H&M adventure. We were looking for a snazzy new coat for him. They were having a ridiculous sale – coats were 50% off and on top of that they were buy one get one free! Neither of us bought one. Or got one free. The bogo ended the next day. I went back on Thursday afternoon and begrudgingly bought this coat after a full hour of agonizing. And for the record, this image should have been color... Read More
Paris Hilton: A Lesson in Branding
Very curious… Read More
Gasp? Alexander Wang Mens 2010
Have you seen the video preview of Alexander Wang’s 2010 menswear collection? Thoughts? I felt like I was watching the opening scenes of a movie filmed in 2005 but set in 1993. Some sort of angsty coming of age story full of class struggles, a heat wave, sex, and the protagonist shouting “I’m just trying to live” at some point. Meh. Wasn’t impressed. Oh yeah, the clothes were pretty boring too. Source: NY MAG Read More
Lady Gaga Killed Kermit (…the frog)
There’s a lot of German happening in this video, but I distinctly heard Gaga say she dresses like this “all the time” because her whole life is art and performance. Oooooh. Okay. Ya’ll know I think she’s pretty fly, or was for a minute, but the “flacid Kermit” “Muppet graveyard” look, as described by NYMAG, is horrifying! And not in the way that I secretly enjoy. Read More
