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The bad news: now that fashionable trendy kids in trenchcoats have appropriated the post-punk misery of depressed, social...

Big Mac is Whack. The Slow movement's mission is to 'protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenisation of modern fast food and life'. To celebrate...

In the 1800s, Levi Strauss would have had little concept of the implications of his invention. Of the jiving, the flaring, the acid-washing, the skinny...

By mid-2004 it seemed that if a band was touted as the “next big thing from Williamsburg” it would be a sure sign to avoid them. Amongst the...

If you want to know the time there are two options - analogue or digital. Sundials look sweet but aren't that practical, and trying to chart the sun's...

FOLLOW ME was the heartbeat of Australian fashion publishing back in the '80's. Slick, cool and new - a swan amongst seagulls. While mainstream titles...

With temperatures soaring 032c's title is apt for the Australian summer and so is its content if you want something more inspiring than a Sodoku puzzle...

Like something Patsy and Eddie might have dreamt up in the wee hours, High Fashion Crime Scenes takes fashion to the heights of bad taste and depends...

Keeping up with a dirty hipster's required reading can be dispiriting. You've gotta know your Lethem from your Eggers, classic novels from graphic novels...

Instead of getting caught up in the peppered language of perfume – sensuous…cradled slumber…caressing skin…you get the drift...

Post Moleskin introduced us to the $25 plus bracket for plain notepads, these marvels may be one for the vault. Destructed and meticulously rebuilt by...

Recent outbreaks of Internet-slaves playing bongos, all hyphy "like Fela" reeks of moneyed putrefaction - at best reminding of C. Thomas Howell's...

London to Brighton hits the ground running. Kelly, a woman with a horror-show swollen eye, rushes a terrified young girl into a public bathroom. Kelly...

Did you know that John Safran got his first job in advertising by cleaning the front windows of an ad agency every day for a week? (They didn't ask him...

To be honest, Architecture In Helsinki have at times sounded a bit too much like a school band for our liking. However, with sold out shows all over the...

Twist a curl of hair around your finger and tell your friends that you read The Style Press all you like; European style is a lot closer than you think...

The trademark sound of this New York two-piece (three-piece in live shows, however) shines through yet again on the act’s third album, aptly titled...

Ever returned home too soon from a trip to Europe and found yourself unable to adjust? Walking around in a beret and stripy t-shirt, staring at the Arts...

In a world full of facts it is nice to think that a lack of knowledge can actually be powerful.

In his show Cosmic Divisions James Deutsher uses...

In The Science Of Sleep, Stéphane hosts a talkshow in his dreams which is filmed on a cardboard set inside his head with windows that look out...