love/hate
The new Urban Outfitters catalog came in the mail yesterday, and the self-conscious over-the-top hipster-ness of the whole operation is even more blinding than usual. Typically, the catalogs feature artsy photographs of waifish girls/women wearing a collection of clothing that is about one-third nice and/or interesting, with the remainder being alternately horrendous, deranged and/or laughable. [...]
Last year, upon watching a six-hour DVD of the BBC documentary, The Story of India, our creative director realized that his three-year-long suspicion was indeed correct–that India, a subcontinent grandly described as “a land of a one billion people, 400 languages, and 33 million gods” by writer, historian, and documentary narrator Michael Wood, would serve [...]