Chrome wants your best shot by Alison a. Nieder Street

 
Ricky Powell

Whether you're the next Ricky Powell, Ken Goto or Tod Seelie? Grab your camera and get off the streets. You could win a Fijifilm XPro1, backpack lens camera and the Chrome Industries X-Pro1 camera.

The manufacturer of San Francisco of bags, shoes and clothes just launched a photo contest, called streets of Chrome, to find the next great street photographer.

Ken Goto

Chrome has enlisted Goto, Powell and Seelie to serve as judges for the competition.

You have until February 4 to participate in the online contest. After the judges narrow the pictures to a few finalists, based on their "creativity, originality and ability to capture the essence of the street."

 
Tod Seelie

The final winner will be chosen by a free vote online. The winner will be announced on 15 February.

The grand prix is a compact system camera Fujifilm X-Pro1, a Fujifilm X-Pro1 35 mm F/1.4 lens and a Chrome Niko camera backpack.

All the details and some of the first entries are here

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The end of an era for x - ray Spex by Alison a. Nieder

 
You can buy these lenses on Ebay (they also come in blue,) but they really let you see through clothes, pervert.

You can put your hands down now. The Transportation Security Administration has announced its intention to stop using the millimeter-wave scanners in its projections of airport security. Those are the scanners, you stand with hands above your head, the same scanners that produce images "naked" passengers, as the image below of Wikimedia.

By coincidence, the TSA announcement came on the same day, a new clothing anti-surveillance exhibition opened in London.

New York artist Adam Harney became associated with New York designer Johanna Bloomfield to create Stealth porter. According to Harvey, "" the anti-resonance and antiresonance hoodie scarf: clothing designed to counteract the thermal imaging, a technology used widely by drones. ""

The fashion show of the privacy, which will include demonstration of the technology behind the songs videos, will also "XX-shirt," Harvey which has a print in the shape of heart (to your heart) which protects the x-ray body and the "large Pocket" a device which automatically deactivates the signal of your cell phone.

According to PopSci, hooded sweater and scarf are "designed to conceal the heat signature of the body that can be picked up by the IR sensors built into many cameras, surveillance and unmanned aerial vehicles."

The exhibition began with a part of the summary of January 17 at the headquarters of tank Magazine and is presented by London collective, primitive and retail artists store that sells one-of-a-kind, craft parts, as well as his own label design Primitive. If you are in London or close enough, the exhibition runs until the end of the month.

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Reining Men--Get It? by Alison A. Nieder

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You can't talk about men's fashion without mentioning "Zoolander"

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is working on a menswear show, titled "Reigning Men: From the Macaroni to the Metrosexual."

Sadly, we have to wait until 2016 to see it, according to journalist Judy Graeme, who writes the Native Intelligence column at LA Observed. (Graeme recently wrote a great piece about LACMA’s recent collection of haute couture—donated by an actual couturier. The pictures are to die. Vionnet, Desses, McQueen, Madame Gres.)

With LACMA’s sites set squarely on men, I thought it would be a good chance to take a whirlwind—and by no means definitive— tour through menswear trends.

Macaroni

Going Macaroni? Buzzfeed breaks down the trend.

Buzzfeed calls Macaronis the hipsters of their day—their “day” being the mid-18th century. These sons of wealthy Brits vacationed in Italy then came home to condescend to the poor schmucks who stayed home. You’d give them a ridiculous nickname, too.

Les Incroyables

Louis Leopold Bolly’s 1787 “Incroyable et Merveilleuse in Paris.” You can buy a print here.

Les Incroyables were the Macaronis of their day. Well-known fun fashion fact: These 18th-century fashion plates inspired John Galliano’s 1984 Central St. Martins finale collection.

The original Incroyable, left and Galliano's 1984 update, right

Here’s a grainy-but-still-awesome video of the show:

The designer revisited the theme (in incroyable fashion, I might add) for Spring/Summer 2007 when he was designing for Christian Dior.

Image Shack pic from GetFashionableConnected

The Dandy

George Bryan “Beau” Brummel, left, and Oscar Wilde in a 1882 photo by Napoleon Sarony, right

Around the same time the Incroyable was tearing up Paris, his British cousin, the Dandy, was cutting an aristocratic figure (even if he had middle class roots) across the pond.

The Dandy is alive and well today. For modern-day examples, I recommend Rose Callahan’s Dandy Portraits blog.

Pictured above is Callahan’s Instagram shot of the proprietors of the Fine and Dandy store in New York and Callahan’s portrait of Dr. Keith Churchwell is below.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Before "Mad Men," did we have a name for Mid-Century menswear? Gregory Peck had it down in the 1956 film "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit"

Beatniks

Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs from "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"

Beatniks are what happened to the style of the Beat Generation when Madison Avenue stepped in. Ya dig, daddy-o?

Rockabilly

Elvis Presley

Plenty would argue with me that Rockabilly started in the 40s, but I’m handing the trend to Elvis and everyone who pomaded in his path.

Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent

The Stray Cats

Hippies

Maybe The Beatles were a little over the top with their Nehru-Dashiki-Technicolor wonder fashions (above). But Peter Fonda (below left) and Dennis Hopper (below right) seem spot-on and the perfect hippie counterbalance to Jack Nicholson's suit and tie.

Still from the 1969 fim "Easy Rider"

Disco

John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever” probably did prompt a lot of men to buy three-piece polyester suits. But did anyone seriously rock the satin pants like the BeeGees? There were probably a lot more men who dressed like record producer Giorgio Moroder in this 1977 shot with Donna Summer.

Punk

The Sex Pistols

Credit Malcom McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, of course. But try this word-association test: What do you think of when I say “punk.”  Admit it, you thought Sex Pistols. (You can buy the image above here)

Preppy

How do you like your preppie? Ralph Lauren (above) or Lilly Pulitzer (below)?

Or perhaps Alfonso Ribeiro, a.k.a. Carlton Banks from “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air “?

Hip Hop

Run-DMC pioneered with big chains and Kangol hats.

Photo by Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis

NWA went plain wrap in black and white.

 

Remember Cross Colours. It was BIG.

There’s more 90s hip-hop fashion here and here.

Grunge

 
Kurt Cobain

Maybe Kurt Cobain didn’t start it but he’s still the perfect posterboy for it. Side note: If you’ve never read the story about the Grunge-speak hoax, please do so now. I recommend first reading the original, from a 1992 issue of The New York Times, which is hilariously earnest.

Goth

Brandon Lee or Robert Smith? I’m not sure. But I’m loving the shot below of Bodybound designer Kim Choong-Wilkins collection from a 2011 interview with Catalog magazine.

Metrosexual

Was Metrosexual really a trend? I’m not sure, but the Gray Lady thought so back in 2003.

What have I forgotten? We have until 2016 (when the LACMA exhibition opens) to complete the timeline.

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Compete with Naomi by Alison a. Nieder

This is how it's done. Naomi Campbell to work for Vogue Italia.

There's less than a week before the start of "The Face", modeling with Naomi Campbell, Karolina Kurkova, Coco Rocha's new reality show, bowing on 12 February on the oxygen network.

Coco Rocha, Naomi Cambell and Karolina Kurkova

Photographer Nigel Barker will serve as host and models will train women aspirants competing teams to be the face of the retailer Ulta beauty.

Here's a hint of what is to come:

And if this is not enough Naomi Campbell to help out you until next week, Vogue Italia has released a video behind the scenes of the shoot of Naomi cover for the February issue.

Hat tip to Fashionista.

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