Madison Moore
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WEEKEND | “I Never Use the World Fabulous.” How Gay Is TOO Gay?
This week on “Savage Love,” sex-columnist Dan Savage’s regular installment of raunchy sex advice, a “straight acting” gay dude with the very clever pseudonym “Straight Actor” wrote in about how masculine and burly and like totally out of touch he is with flaming gay bois.
WEEKEND | Rihanna Makes Me Feel Like The Only Gay In The World
Rihanna (pronounced RI-ANNA, not RI-ONNAH) just released her very red and very floral new album LOUD. With all the color and flowers and happiness and everything, it’s basically the exact opposite of Rated R. Remember how creepy and dark that album was?
WEEKEND | Yale University Press drops THE book on hip hop
Looks like our Universitatis Yalensis just earned some serious street cred.
Shit Robot’s electric 'Triumph'
Shit Robot née Marcus Lambkin waited 20 whole years to drop his first legit studio album. That’s a long time. But good things come to those who wait, and 20 years is none too long for this dance music veteran. Born in Dublin, Lambkin immigrated to the United States after winning the U.S. Green Card Lottery, easily making him one of the luckiest DJs in history. So what did he do once he got to the States? He partied, of course (!), becoming a regular at NYC venues like Limelight, Sound Factory and Save the Robots.
MGMT no longer kids
If you’ve heard about Brooklyn psychedelic hipster rock band MGMT’s new album “Congratulations,” out on April 13 from Columbia Records, you’re probably wondering what the celebration is all about. Three years ago, this unknown Wesleyan-educated duo served us the coked-up Dionysian dream of “Time to Pretend” and the practically porn-like groove of “Electric Feel.” Bow chicka wow wow.
The Daily Couture: Did You Know That Lady Gaga Scribbled On A Birkin Bag
Today Lady Gaga arrived in Tokyo with a white Birkin bag and a trapezoidal pantsuit. To top it all off, Gaga's Hermes Birkin bag had the phrase "I love little monster, Tokyo love" sprayed on it in Japanese. Um...with a Sharpie. Oh, and just FYI, a Birkin bag costs at least $5,000, is a major status symbol, and it is nearly impossible to get one. In Lauren Weisberger's novel Everyone Worth Knowing, one of the characters is on the verge of suicide. Until she finds out she barely has 6 months left on the Birkin wait list. How can you kill yourself when you're that close?! Leave it to Gaga to celebrate pop culture and deface it at the same time. She buys the coveted Birkin and jacks it up. Do you think this will become a style trend? Or is it a performance piece? I can't wait to write on
The Daily Couture: Today You Can Buy Alexander McQueen For 80% Off
Have a couple bucks to spare? Or maybe you don't, but you've been DYING for your very own pair of Alexander McQueen shoes? Or something from Costume National, Ralph Lauren, Y-3 or Nicole Miller? When you're sitting in class bored to tears, instead of playing on Facebook, you can now shop for couture! And the best part? It's all on sale. Not just any kind of sale, but like a serious sale. Today you can buy a $1,600 pair of McQueen Metallic Strappy Sandals for $299!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or the $700 Polka Dot Pumps for $149!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quick — everybody get out your credit cards. Um...omg. Sound like a dream come true? Well, it kinda is! It's all made possible via Gilt Groupe, a new online luxury boutique that has the hottest collections on sale up to 70 percent off the retail value. When you log-in to Gilt Groupe (membership is by invitation only; if you don't know somebody who's a member, email me and I'll hook you UP), you see a calendar of the week with different sales on different days of the week. You can't buy something until the day it's listed to go on sale. Alexis and Alexandra, the fabulous founders of Gilt Groupe, wanted to take the New York "by invitation only" sample sale to the Internets. Everybody knows about the sample sale — you've seen it parodied in Sex and the City, Confessions of A Shopaholic, etc. Basically, everybody waits on the line for hours and then, pow!, everybody stampedes the boutique, ripping out weaves, earrings, squeezing out botox to get the last piece of couture. That's the psychology of sales, though! When you're told that the "original" price was $5,000 and that today and today only, it's on sale for a cool $999 you're like OMGASKDJASLDJOUGOTTABUYITNOW!!!!!! This is the new direction of luxury. Can you imagine what will happen to the Internet if they have a Balenciaga or, omg, a Balmain sale??!?!??!
The Daily Couture: Last Night Christian Siriano Had A Moment
Remember how a couple years ago Christian Siriano single-handedly had all of America saying "fierce"? Fierce! Fierce Hot Tranny Mess! Tranny Fierce! But for Siriano, "having a moment" is now the hot catch phrase. Quick — everybody stop saying "fierce." Bravo aired the one-hour special "Christian Siriano: Having A Moment" last night, and it was probably the most exciting bit of TV that Bravo has put out since the post-menopausal network Lifetime snatched Project Runway. "Having A Moment" followed Christian as he got ready for Fashion Week, did celebrity fittings, etc. It was basically a check-up on his post Project Runway life. Read more after the jump.
The Daily Couture: Slowly, But Surely, Madonna's Daughter Lourdes Is Becoming A Celebrity, Too
Get ready for Back-to-School, ya'll! Madonna is launching a Lourdes-inspired collection for Macy's. But apparently, Lourdes is designing the collection, while momma bear stays in the background and says "That's cool. That's not cool." I haven't seen any of the collection, but I bet it will be exciting for the demographic. Every time I see fabulous Little Lola, she looks cutting edge, New York, and very hip. When it's time, Madonna will graciously step out of the spotlight and allow her daughter to talk about the collection she's basically designing. "Eventually I will let her. I feel like she needs to get into high school and focus on her studies, her lessons. She got into the high school of the performing arts. She has a lot of work to do. I don't want her to be distracted. She will eventually be able to talk about it." She's basically protecting her daughter from the spotlight, guys. But judging by the looks of that outfit, it's only a matter of time before Lola becomes a model-actress-singer-dancer and moves to Williamsburg. When you're Madonna's daughter, how could you not be overly fabulous? Keep it up, girlfran!
The Daily Couture: Danielle Steele Has 6,000 Pairs of Louboutins
In a recent interview, Christian Louboutin — the Red Soled God of High Heels — says he sells more than 340,000 pairs of shoes each year. I know ya'll can do the math: at $500 a pair, that's at least $170 million dollars per year in footwear. Yikes! A pair of Loubs is the highest honor you can put on your feet. Not too long ago I went to the Louboutin boutique in the West Village and I was totally mesmerized by the craftsmanship of every pair. Read more after the jump.