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Hatchet Supply Wants To Teach Brooklyn How to Camp

Virginia K. Smith — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:28:00 -0400

Even if it's been a while (or a really long while) since you actually, say, pitched a tent, cooked your dinner over an open flame, or actively worried about wild animals interrupting your night's sleep, most of us still harbor quiet theories about our own (exceptional) abilities to survive in the wild, and all the efficient, good-looking gear we'll use to do it.

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Gift Guide: Top 10 Brooklyn Mother's Day Presents

Kristin Iversen — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:45:00 -0400

Mother's Day is this Sunday, and while many of us might have complicated relationships with our mothers (and, I guess, many of us might not), it is still a nice thing to, once a year, celebrate your mother. Or your grandmother.…

David Stark on Home Entertaining and Design

Neesha Arter — Fri, 03 May 2013 09:30:00 -0400

Designer David Stark is not only one of the most renowned event producers in New York City, he's also a contributing editor to Martha Stewart Weddings‬ and the creative force behind both the Whitney Museum Gala and WWD’s 100th Anniversary event. Out of the twenty-one years Stark has spent in New York City, Brooklyn has been his home for nineteen of them.…

The 8 Brooklyn Beauty Products We Should All Be Using

Virginia K. Smith — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:24:13 -0400

When it comes to buying local, organic goods, beauty products have always sort of been the final frontier. Sure, that oilier, all-natural shampoo is great in theory, but when it doesn't do exactly what it's supposed to?…

Inside Hazan Motorworks, Home of the Brooklyn-Made Motorcycle

Virginia K. Smith — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:19:00 -0400

Even with the current ubiquity of anything and everything that can reasonably be called DIY, when most people think "handmade," their minds don't necessarily jump right to "heavy machinery." To Max Hazan, though, it makes perfect sense.…

Yoko Ono Now Stealing From Bushwick Designers

Virginia K. Smith — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:22:05 -0400

In your daily unexpected feud news (and Yoko Ono news and Bushwick news), Ono is being sued by Bushwick-based designer Haleh Nematzadeh, who claims Ono stole designs from her "Gonna Walk the Night" collection and used them for her own collection at Opening Ceremony. The signature look in question?…

The Brooklyn Baby Stroller Power Rankings

Henry Stewart — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:50:00 -0400

Like learning to swim by getting shoved into the deep end, my parents taught me to walk by refusing to take me anywhere unless I followed them. Just kidding!…

Would You Wear This "Lena Denim" Dress?

Virginia K. Smith — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:30:00 -0400

Because if you did, it would maybe be worth it (or at least justifiable) for the pun value alone. So that was pretty clever on ModCloth's part.…

Michelle Williams Poses as a Racist Caricature

Kristin Iversen — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:00:00 -0400

So, here's something. Actress and Brooklyn resident Michelle Williams is on the cover of the latest AnOther Magazine and she looks...different from how she usually appears.…

Upstate Fashion Comes to Brooklyn

Kristin Iversen — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:20:00 -0500

Kalen Kaminski and Astrid Chastka design and are the creative force behind Upstate, a line of shibori-inspired women’s clothing and accessories. Shibori is a Japanese tradition of dyeing cloth, which relies on the folding, binding, and compressing of fabric in order to create an infinite variety of patterns, each piece unique from the next.…

The Deaths of Great 20th-Century Artists, in Pictures

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:15:00 -0500

Death confers upon its subject a gravitas impossible to achieve in life—it clarifies that which preceded it. Death is the beginning of history.…

The Art of Everyday Things

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:05:00 -0500

Sophie Stone foam piece available at sophie-stone.com
Yue tri-tone pocket backpack in natural raw available at y-u-e.us, $420
Subject Object voronoi granite jacquard knit available at Henrik Vibskov Boutique, $312
ESP available at Unnamable Books
shoelaces available at Kim's Shoe Repair, $3

All Photos by Joanna McClure
Styling/Curation by Hayden Dunham

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A Night At The Opera

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:00:00 -0500

Behold the children of paradise, before they fall to Earth.

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Katie Kiechel: Third-Generation Brooklyn Style

Kristin Iversen — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:30:00 -0500

Brooklyn designer Katie Kiechel seemed almost predestined for a career in fashion. Although she now lives and works out of a high-ceilinged loft-like space in DUMBO, Kiechel hails from Ohio.…

Dossier Journal: From Brooklyn, with Love

Kristin Iversen — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:45:00 -0500

Founded in 2008, by Katherine Krause and Skye Parrott, Dossier Journal is a biannual publication which serves as a beautifully curated place for fashion, writing, photography, music and anything that falls under the aegis of arts and culture. Definitely a trendsetter, Dossier has always called Brooklyn home and continues to draw from and be inspired by the resident cultural scene.…

Inside Vaute: Williamsburg's Vegan, Environmentally-Conscious Fashion Label

Kristin Iversen — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:00:00 -0500

Vaute by Leanne Mai-ly Higart is a line of environmentally-conscious and vegan clothes that are totally manufactured in New York and sold out of a store that was constructed in as ethically-aware of a manner as the clothes themselves. Located on Grand Street in Williamsburg, the interior of Vaute was built and decorated using repurposed items like discarded Abercrombie & Fitch mannequins—"that explains why they're so tan," Higart tells me, laughing—and also contains "the mantle from Lady Gaga's Barney's exhibit painted with recycled paint."…