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Make Clothes, Not War: Notes From Fashion Week
by Pamela Grossman 10/15/2003Neighborhood: All Over, Manhattan
My devotion to fashion shows began with the designer Cynthia Rowley. About six years ago I inherited an invitation to her show when a fashion editor at the magazine where I worked couldn’t attend. I still remember grabbing a cab at the last minute and scrambling in as the show was just beginning. Sly Stone’s [...]
The Politics of Hair Removal
by Alicia Erian 11/24/2002Neighborhood: Manhattan
Last August, when the Russian woman who waxes my legs in Brooklyn went on vacation, I made an appointment at a spa in SoHo. I’d actually been meaning to switch for some time. It wasn’t that I didn’t like Vicki—I did. She was dirt cheap, and we shared an interest in politics. Even though her [...]
The Whiffle Ball Kid
by Thomas Beller 10/25/2002Neighborhood: East Village
The swimming pool was very warm. There were huge trees in the backyard and they swayed in the breeze, and at the local Haymarket–which is sort of a Balducci’s for Connecticans–my friend left the key in the car while we went shopping and it was still there when we came back. I mean, he left [...]
My Secret Socks Life
by Jeanette Winterson 10/25/2002Neighborhood: Midtown
Illustrations by Elisha Cooper Some people come to New York for the thrills. Some for romance. My desire starts lower down–well below the knee–in a hidden, private erogenous zone, where I get my kicks. This is the story of my socks life. I was travelling along Broadway in one of those reassuring black Town Cars. [...]
The Barber Shops On Amsterdam
by Rachel Sherman 10/23/2002Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Photographs by Rachel Sherman Inside Miguel’s Barbershop on 942 Amsterdam Avenue, Spanish speaking men sit in barber chairs facing the mirror. It is a sunny Friday in the early afternoon and the shop is busy. I ask a guy named Anthony, who is sitting in the back, about Miguel’s. "This is a guy’s place," he [...]
The Four-Dollar Haircut, or Shaving Above the Apple
by Joshua M. Bernstein 01/11/2002Neighborhood: East Village
Several months ago I was stuck in a rut. You know, drinking at the same tired bars, hanging with all-too familiar friends, masturbating in the same routine sock. So in my grand tradition of superficial alterations-buying new shoes, switching from contacts to glasses, wearing headbands instead of hats-I buzzed my skull. And now, several months [...]
How Do You Want It?
by Rene Georg Vasicek 01/02/2002Neighborhood: East Village
Once a month, I take the downtown number 6 train to Astor Place for an $11 buzz cut. Near the corner of Broadway, a red and white awning urges me to Beware of Imitators as dozens of celebrity snapshots are exhibited in the storefront window — Judd Nelson, Susan Sarandon, Rosie O’Donnell, Yannick Noah . [...]
Hemut Lang speaks
by Thomas Beller 05/01/2001Neighborhood: SoHo
Style and Structure With Helmut Lang By Thomas Beller Helmut Lang spent his boyhood years roaming the alps in shorts. He was a country boy until he turned ten, when his father re-married and moved to Vienna, whereupon his step mother proceeded to enforce a strict dress code of suits and ties. Needless to say, [...]
Helmut Lang: Clothes Unmake The Man
by Thomas Beller 08/04/1999Neighborhood: West Village
I once had a girlfriend who bought me clothes. At first this made me extremely happy, but then something changed, and these gifts, which had seemed such a pure expression of love, began to seem like little apologies. The first thing C. gave me was a blue T-shirt that she had embroidered, while on jury [...]
