KidViskous

Waiting for Adriano

2010-07-29T07:00:00.000-07:00

Waiting in the lobby of Hollywood's chic on-and-off hotspot, the Mondrian Hotel, to interview the godfather of premium denim, Adriano Goldschmied. He is the founder of AG Jeans, Diesel, Goldsign and tons of other denim companies, and I was fortunate enough to write several articles about LA fashion for an Austrian fashion magazine called Style in Progress. You could imagine my excitement to discover the couch I was sitting on matched my cross ring.

Our modest carriage waiting at 7am; Photographer & good friend Job Piston with Adriano Goldschmied

The whole day was insane, being carted from the Sunset Strip to the Rose Bowl Flea Market to boutiques around the city in a giant Escalade limousine full of Europeans!

Print article coming soon...

Ring: Forever 21 (sold out, but you can buy one on eBay for up to $100. I paid $3.80!)

Rock Like an Egyptian

2010-07-28T07:00:00.000-07:00

Can't get enough of pyramid spikes + double finger rings. An exciting FLOATING pyramid spike double ring find at Nasty Gal (sold out!)

2010-07-27T23:06:00.001-07:00

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WE'VE MOVED!

2010-07-27T22:49:00.001-07:00

Because it just felt right:

Visit our new digs at Kidviskous.blogspot.com

KidViskous Tops Steve Aoki in Paper Mag Music Issue 2010

2010-06-25T12:54:00.000-07:00

Making my own KV modeling debut.

KV + Kim Hastreiter’s Spec-tacular CFDA Award Dinner Celebration

2010-06-11T12:36:00.000-07:00

John Waters, David Byrne, Kehinde Wiley, Thelma Golden, Kim Hastreiter and Cindy Sherman

Kim Hastreiter, Editor-in-Chief of PAPER magazine personally asked me to make my KV Red Nerd Specs for her guests celebrating her CFDA award, and I was just floored! She originally commissioned me to make them in red when I met her at PAPER Projects LA, so I have her to thank for inspiring that particular design.

Betsey Johnson!

Anna Sui!

Joey Arias (bottom), Fab 5 Freddy (top right)

Matthew Modine and PAPER founder David Hershkovitz

An NYC icon, Kim is a monument to fashion, art and culture reporting, especially about the ground level where the youngest, boldest and sometimes strangest movements flourish, so her Eugenia Sheppard CFDA Award is more than well deserved. Past recipients of this award include Vogue’s towering André Leon Talley and New York Times Fashion Critic Cathy Horyn.

Before

After

Congratulations to Kim and check out more photos from PAPER Magazine + Target CFDA Celebration Dinner (I see you holding those KVs Diane von Furstenberg!)

Photos courtesy of PAPER

Johnny Cupcakes x Kamp Grizzly Cupcake Cannon

2010-05-03T20:33:00.000-07:00

Song: "I Don't Wanna Speak" by Guidance Counselor

Arcade Fire x Spaghetti Western

2010-04-28T23:15:00.000-07:00

Clips pulled from Sergio Leone's classic "Once Upon a Time in the West"

Tiffany Lee on Style Like U

2010-04-08T06:00:00.000-07:00

I had the distinct pleasure of having my closet raided, rated, and orated on Style Like U, a website that conducts on-camera interviews with fashion tastemakers around the US. Granted I haven't actually watched the video with sound because I'm too self-conscious, but thoughts that come to mind:

1. I'm skinnier than I think I am

2. I have the body language of Woody Allen

Full interview with photos CLICK HERE

Tiffany Lee from Stylelikeu.com from Stylelikeu on Vimeo.

Happy Easter

2010-04-04T08:00:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday To Me

2010-03-31T06:00:00.000-07:00

Sunset, Star-gazing, Moon-searching, Plane-watching

2010-03-12T13:29:00.000-08:00

Joshua Tree: Halls of Horror and Skull Rock

2010-03-08T13:49:00.000-08:00

Professor Tiffany Lee excavating in Horror Hall (yes, the real name)

Mitten says "Hai".

SKULL RAWK

Rad - Saturday Night Fever Meets BMX

2010-03-07T06:00:00.000-08:00

Yes, that's Becky from Full House. Who knew she was such a badass?

Busy Day at the Marine Base

2010-03-05T13:57:00.000-08:00

Shot using Autostitch Iphone app

KidViskous Collection 4: Behind the Scenes

2010-03-05T06:00:00.000-08:00

Stylin'

Shutterbug Zak Krevitt

Model Kelli Mckee and hair stylist Megan Maher

WERQ

See the results at www.kidviskous.com

Joshua Tree: Day of Defying Death 2

2010-03-04T06:00:00.000-08:00

Went on a proper hike to Lost Horse Mine (which we broke into) that proved to be another face-off with impending doom, facing a seemingly endless trail nowhere near my car as, again, the sun was going down with no flashlight. But the trail there was spectacular, having a defined line where a fire had swept away acres of desert land, leaving these ominously gorgeous charred joshua trees that were thick black with gold seams and stalks. The burnt away landscape gave me so much inspiration for my next collection.

Pistons on the engine like a row of iron owls

Trespassing

The owls have dicks too

Chimney from what was probably an old prospector's cabin

His lonely bed

It was around here we thought death was imminent. But the car was found 20 min later, and celebrating life was had at the local Pizza Hut where our very young, forgetful waitress told us, "I've been forgetting things all day. My mom calls it 'pregnancy brain'."

Joshua Tree: Day of Defying Death

2010-03-03T06:00:00.000-08:00

Decided to go hiking on one of the very rare occasions it rains in Joshua Tree. Trying to scramble down boulders when it's raining and the sun is setting is a very tense experience, but beautiful nonetheless.

Rock whale!

Soleless High Heels

2010-02-28T06:00:00.000-08:00

Any red-blooded American fetishist would find these conceptual heels unbelievably sexy.

By Scandinavian designers Aminaka Wilmont

Hoof Fetish

2010-02-27T06:00:00.000-08:00

A collection fit for a nymph or nymphomaniac.

Hoof shoes by German artist Iris Schieferstein creates "a new face for death."

By Paris designer A.F. Vandevorst

Horseshoe heels handmade in Italy by PunitiveShoes

Joshua Tree: Day Something

2010-02-26T16:42:00.000-08:00

Mixin' it up

Repurpose Old Sweaters by This Guy's Mom: Reknit

2010-02-26T06:00:00.000-08:00

A fun idea that promotes sustainable wearables, you can have an old knit sweater unravelled then re-knitted into something else for $30 by a real live mom. For February, Reknit was doing sweaters-->gloves (sold out, only took the first 30 orders. The guy--graphic designer Haik Avanian--has only one mom after all) and you can vote for March's item: iPod case, socks, hat or sweatbands.

Reminiscent of the Swiss Netgranny sock craze from a few years ago, where you can buy hand-knitted socks by grandmothers in Switzerland judging by their photos, Reknit gives the idea of grandmotherly gift-giving a greener step up.

Let's just hope Mama Avanian isn't being put to work too hard!

Must See: Uniqlo's Calendar

2010-02-25T06:00:00.001-08:00

Showing sped up footage from various outdoor cameras around Shibuya Japan, Japanese clothing line Uniqlo's calendar is a fresh, fun, and addictive take on online voyeurism. From shopping centers and snowy parking lots to monkey sanctuaries, the calendar rotates through seemingly endless lineup of different cameras around the city accompanied by a fractured soundtrack of Japanese electro blip-pop. This online calendar is more art installation than timekeeper. I could watch this much longer than I used to watch HamsterDance.com as a kid (which is a LONG time).

There is a screensaver you can download as well that streams the calendar, or you can choose from the various kitchy 60s-esque promotional "Uniqlock" clips of cute Japanese dancers wearing Uniqlo gallivanting around Paris and other locales. But be sure to turn down/off the sound on the screensavers so you won't jump every time it turns on.

http://www.uniqlo.com/screensaver/

Kicking and Screaming

2010-02-24T13:48:00.000-08:00

Mass exodus

(I have no doubt the whole trash can is top to bottom sneakers)

By Slim Yuen (via Facebook), the colorful curator of Pandaa! Magazine and BEP! Shop in Hong Kong (KidViskous stockist!)

New Site//New Collection//New Era

2010-02-24T06:00:00.000-08:00

New photos by Zak Krevitt (radiantjungle.com), model: Kelli Mckee