Each new generation needs a graphic icon to signify their values. The late 60's had its smiley face. The 80's had the "$". But what would significantly represent our culture of anorexic celebrities, war and hell bent addictions of all kinds? Well, according to the NY Times we are the generation of the skull!
You might have seen them appearing on everything from shoes, to belts, and even $800 cashmere sweaters by Lucien Pellat-Finet. The skull is here to rock! But some 'goths' feel they own that look.
“This is such a huge gripe of mine,” said Voltaire, a musician in New York and the author of “What is Goth?” (Weiser Books, 2004), a kind of “Preppy Handbook” for the living dead. “Throughout hundreds of years of history, what the skull has communicated is, ‘I am dangerous.’ That’s where the irony is. You can buy dangerous for $11.99 at Kmart.”
For years Voltaire was the happy owner of several skull-motif sweaters hand-knit by an eccentric Englishwoman. He recounted that a woman stopped him the other day on an East Village street to admire the one he was wearing. “She said: ‘I love your sweater. Is it Ralph Lauren?’ Then I found out that Ralph Lauren has a whole store that sells skull stuff.”
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Best Week Ever got a hold of those famous pics of Matthew McConaughey on the beach doing some tantric yoga and had a Photoshop contest. Who could make the best, "Where's Matthew?" pic. The one I did was a little too X Rated for Best Week Ever...
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Lance Bass, blondie femme hottie from N'SYNC, recently came out in People Magazine:
"I knew that I was in this popular band and I had four other guys'
careers in my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on it or even said
(that I was gay), it would overpower everything,"
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