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May 15, 2012 – Optometrists and hairdressers Down Under have revealed the next hot fashion trend among Australian teens in a new investigative report.

April 26, 2012 – Austin Sherbanenko's Odyn Vovk label is one of the few American design houses to mesh with my personal aesthetic tastes. His designs are dark and rugged, conjuring images of hard-fought battles on Tatooine, that sand planet’s gritty deserts amiss with barbed wire and shrapnel.

April 11, 2012 – When Rick Owens premiered his autumn/winter 2012 line in Paris last month, his avant-garde designs provoked the usual flurries of interest, but stoked a lot of music fires, too. Playing Zebra Katz's "Ima Read" exclusively for the 12-minute duration of his show, the loop embedded itself in the heads of fashion editors across the spectrum, and they were willing to preach about it.

April 3, 2012 – It’s not just 2012, but spring of 2012 — men of all orientations, ethnicities and cultural backgrounds should exercise their freedom to wear skirts. And I’m not talking about women’s skirts, but skirts specifically designed for men. We don’t wear women’s jeans (Attack Attack excluded), why settle for women’s skirts? The good ones don’t come cheap, but trust me: you’re worth it.

March 27, 2012 – If there’s one fabric I’m willing to define myself by, it’s Ann Demeulemeester’s floral print wool from a few years back. (Extensive research has been unable to confirm the specific season — maybe it was produced in more than one?) It’s a stunning, specific print — the flowers look like they belong on the graves of a couple who drowned themselves in a love-suicide pact, mourning a romance not of this earth.

March 20, 2012 – In a time where I often find myself reticent to leave the house, opting to click around the Internet for my clothes-hunting fix instead, carefully-curated brick-and-mortar clothing shops remain a pivotal link in the fashion food chain.