Fashion and Style

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Karlie Kloss and Victoria's Secret Under Fire for "Indian" Runway Lingerie Look

An outfit worn by Webster Groves-native Karlie Kloss in the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show on Wednesday has the company under fire. Kloss strutted down the runway in a Native American-themed ensemble, featuring a feather headdress with tails down to the floor. She looked super hot in it and ... More >>

Judge Warns North Face Parody "Butt Face" to Quit Being an Ass

In August we told you about Jim and Jimmy Winkelmann and their new clothing line, Butt Face, that they launched in 2010 on the heels of a court-ordered injunction against their previous clothing company, South Butt.Per that ruling, the Winkelmanns were prohibited from ever again reproducing and/or i ... More >>

Panty Raid

St. Louis is Nation's Seventh Manliest City

What constitutes manliness? Is it merely the presence of certain genitalia and a Y chromosome and the ability to manufacture large quantities of testosterone? Or is it something more complex and metaphysical like, say, knowing how to knot a necktie or possessing an understanding of certain complexit ... More >>

Cowabunga, Dudes!

SwedLife Went From a Streetwear and Hip-Hop Blog to a Career For its Founders

Ed. Musicians may get all the groupies, but there is more to a city's music world than people wielding instruments. To name a few: venue and studio owners, show promoters, assorted enthusiasts and -- the subject of this series -- bloggers. In Music Blogs of St. Louis, we'll talk to the humans behi ... More >>

Buffalo-Wing-Flavored Soda, Wine Perfume Hit Shelves Despite Nobody Asking For Either

All right, so the end of days might be nigh. Is that an overreaction to learning that a buffalo-wing-flavored soda recently hit the market, as did a line of perfumes scented to smell like wine varieties? OK, perhaps it's a slight overreaction, but come on, when solid food becomes inspiration for lib ... More >>

Operation Brightside Commercial = Hope!

In case you missed it, First Punch Film Production made this goofy lil' spot for the mayor:  We find it significant that the only person with enough decency and respect to not litter is the kid with the faux-hawk. Maybe there's hope after all! (For the future of St. Louis, that is; the young ma ... More >>

Broke? Try Bartering!

Will Fischer A table of offerings from a previous Barter Fest. ​An alternative for holiday gifts exists just on the horizon, and it doesn't require spending a single penny! Gut Check would like to re-introduce a concept that most at least have vague familiarity with: bartering. Bartering, or ... More >>

Project:Design! Finalists: Meet Kelley Miller

Next Tuesday, October 11, is the start of 2011's St. Louis Fashion Week. For the seventh year, Brown Shoe will be presenting Project:Design!, a competition featuring the work of six designers based out of, or near, St. Louis. The lines of the top six designers, chosen online by the public, will be ... More >>

Peter Kinder: Every Night's a Pantless Party?

Peter Kinder with a bartender at Verlin's, a nightspot that proclaims "every night's a pantless party!"​Yesterday, we showed you a picture of Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder, grinning broadly at a bar with an unidentified blond.Today we can tell you where that photo was taken: Verlin's, a south ... More >>

Byrd Style Lounge Relaunch Tonight

Mr. Dior himself will not be there, but his work will.​Sometimes, only a $3,000 vintage Christian Dior frock will do. Other times, plunking down a couple sawbucks on a sundress from the '60s will scratch your sartorial itch just fine. And after tonight's super-swank relaunch party at Byrd Style Lo ... More >>

No Life Till Leather

Brooke Shields Makes Pitch for Mustache Finalist, Actor Brandon Wardell

Competition is heating up in the race to be named this year's Robert Goulet Mustached American of the Year. This week famed actress Brooke Shields jumped into the fray, endorsing fellow thespian Brandon Wardell -- whose mustache and singing talents have landed him roles starring as Freddy Mercury. Y ... More >>

Manly Men of St. Louis, Get Your Whiskers Trimmed at This Weekend's NASCAR Race!

Wahl! That's a sexy shave.​As Daily RFT was first to tell you earlier this week, St. Louis has been named the sixth-most manliest city in the nation. How did we earn such honor? According to the authors of the study, it has something to do with our appetite for sports (particularly the motorized k ... More >>

The Runway March

Jam and Thread

The Morning Brew: 4.27

The best restaurant in the world for 2010 has been announced, and it's Noma in Copenhagen. The Guardian reports on the restaurant's upset of El Bulli, the winner for the past four years and the return of rustic over modernism. Tweezers: they're not just for splinters and unwanted facial hair anymo ... More >>

Karlie Kloss on Teen Vogue Cover, Bakes Cookies and Makes Snow Angels

Image source​Karlie Kloss, the international supermodel/Webster High School junior is on the cover of the May issue of Teen Vogue. Inside, Kloss talks about being an ordinary all-American girl who, backstage at shows, catches up on her reading of The Great Gatsby for English class. She bakes ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican!: Special Best-of Edition

StlToday.com Peddles Pussy with "Swimsuit Gallery"; Just Don't Call it That!

It's easy to accuse the editors of the Post-Dispatch's website of being a bit prudish, especially after last month's episode when stltoday.com editor Kurt Greenbaum cost a reader his job for posting the word "pussy" to the paper's website.But to think of the stltoday's editors as overtly puritan wou ... More >>

Show Review Setlist: Gretchen Wilson at Farm Aid, Sunday, October 4

You know what you're going to get with a Gretchen Wilson set: no-frills, unpretentious, hard-twanging country-rock tunes - with emphasis on the rock. Her mid-afternoon set kicked off with the 2004 hit "Here For the Party." Sporting a black camisole, sparkly silver belt and jeans and big hoop earring ... More >>

Big Boutique But Not Big Bucks

Bouffant Is Better

Ryan Franklin's New Beard Must Be Stopped

Okay, the time has come for someone to put their foot down, and that foot is me. Something has got to be done about that thing on Ryan Franklin's face.  I don't know what the fuck it is, or exactly what Franklin thought he was going for when he started trying to cultivate it, but this has ... More >>

This Season: Trim Your Bush at Busch

flickr.com/photos/crosscollectionFree haircuts? You kidding me? The St. Louis Cardinals are out with their promotional schedule for 2009. With the All-Star Game headed to St. Louis in July, this year will have no shortage of fan giveaways to commemorate the season. Among other things, the team and i ... More >>

We Work Hard for Our Money

So hard for it, honey

Xmas Jam Countdown: Band Aid, "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

MP3: Band Aid, "Do They Know It's Christmas Time? (Original 1984)" I couldn't find the best version of this song, which is an extended mix with a totally earnest spoken-word bridge featuring the tune's participants. But here's the original version of 1984's seminal charity single, "Do T ... More >>

Photos: Baseball Mustache Hall of Fame

Paul Van Dyk

9 p.m. Wednesday, June 25. Dante's, 3221 Olive Street

The Bacon Bra

Eagles Are in Fashion

Fashion Forges Ahead

Calling all Leprecanos, Korexicans and Beaner-weiners!

The Mexican wants your hybrid names.

Half Pants

It's summertime and the sweatin' is easy

Jay-Z, Fur Sure

Women on the Verge

Orange Girls are back -- and Bold.

What's up with Mexicans and their grooming habits?

Week of July 20, 2006

Local Motion: Sgt. Amanda Pinson benefit

Friday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m. Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois)

Hollywood Babbles On

Lessons learned where the red carpet ends

The Look of a Winner

A panel of experts handicaps the Final Four the old-fashioned way: According to the coaches' fashion sense

Bobs and Weaves

You gotta have style at Spring Bling '04

Triple Play

Lightning strikes three times in one place, on one night

Best Gym/Fitness Club

South City YMCA

Best Women's-Clothing Store

Ziezo

Best Window Display

Michael Tomlinson's place

Best Vintage-Clothing Store

Pixie 9

Best Place to Find Unusual-Size Dress Shirts for Men

Floor Under the Shelves at Syms

EYE OF THE NEEDLE

Kellwood's taking fashion forward by making virtually all our clothes in the Third World. But the St. Louis giant carefully cloaks its operations, its plant locations and its monitoring of labor conditions.