Saturday, October 12, 2013

Street Style: The Most Dazzling and Mystical at the Mermaid Parade

This Saturday, Coney Island transformed into a sparkly, sequin-filled dream hub for mermaids, mermen, and every wild variation of sea creatures, sea gods, and sea goddesses to celebrate the Mermaid Parade's 30th anniversary. The Cut's Bek Andersen hunted through masses of fake hair, pounds of makeup, mermaid tails, and netting to snap some of the best looks from the event. An orange fish, a lady in a lobster fascinator, Captain Jack Sparrow, and humans colorful merpeople were all dressed in seashells, fishnets, mossy plants, and sequins that stole the show. And from the sheer amount of hair chalk and pastel-colored wigs present in the crowd, this Mermaid Parade could have doubled as a My Little Pony convention. (There was a unicorn head spotting, after all). Click through the slides to see body paint, body parts, flashy makeup, and tons of fearless humans strutting their stuff as they frolicked down Surf Avenue.


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A Streaker Crashed Dolce & Gabbana’s Milan Show [NSFW]

Just three days after receiving a prison sentence for criminal tax evasion, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana presented their spring 2014 menswear collection in Milan. As usual, the designers evoked their Mediterranean roots with native Sicilian models, and the fabrics were printed with historical motifs like Greek gods, ancient coins, and temples. But enough about the clothes — what about that streaker who crashed the runway at the finale, his priapos and chiseled buns exposed in true kouros fashion?

The streaker's identity remains unknown, although he is supposedly of German origin (oh, of course). He was hustled off the catwalk before he could even remove his Pope-esque red loafers and white socks. 

And as for the convicted designers themselves, they're still shouting their innocence from the rooftops. A few hours before the show,  Gabbana told the Telegraph, "We feel shocked about what's happened. But we are relaxed too because we know that we are innocent. We resist, and I feel strong." 


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Kanye West Wrote ‘I Am a God’ After Fashion Week Dis

"I Am a God" is one of the most talked-about songs on Kanye West's Yeezus, for its meme-worthy lyrics and its insight into West's evolving theology. Turns out it also works as a fashion blind item. This, from W's profile of West, which WWD reports will go live on the magazine's freshly redesigned site any minute now:

"In the interview, West recalls an invitation from an unnamed designer last fall to attend a runway show with the condition that West would not attend anyone else’s. West, upset, wrote a song with Daft Punk about the incident, 'I Am a God.' 'Cause it’s like, Yo! Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go. Man, I’m the number-one living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix. You can’t say that you love music and then say that Kanye West can’t come to your show,' West said."

It's safe to say he wasn't the only person in Paris stress-eating croissants over his fashion week invites.


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See the Top 12 Trends From Resort 2014

Most major trends tend to be set during fall and spring's fashion months, leaving resort season — which just concluded —  as the time where the crazy, outlandish, and generally unwearable from the big seasons evolve into something more realistic. Take the Muppet fur that was everywhere for this upcoming fall, for instance: The fluffy blue, pink, and green pieces were slimmed down into sleek styles, like the delicate suspended blue coat at Emilio Pucci or the cropped hot pink bolero at Valentino. The heavily embellished looks that glided down the runways all year were scaled back into 3-D gems that dotted dresses, coats, and sweatshirts. Stella McCartney took it further by creating whimsical shapes like lips, matches, and hearts out of the rhinestones.

Lace continues to be popular with designers, though the takeaway styling lesson from resort would be to layer those pieces; create a head-to-toe effect using the blazer and trousers at Givenchy or the jacket, blouse, and pool slides at Nº21. For those looking for a jolt of color following a somber winter, the newest go-to hue would be a pink reminiscent of a certain stomach medication. Alexander Wang, who normally favors black, white, and shades of gray, used it in a pleated leather trouser, while J.Mendel and Nina Ricci both opted to present pretty dresses in the same shade. And while most trends skewed toward the wearable, the ascending bralette demonstrated that midriffs are certainly not going anywhere; in fact, let's reveal ourselves even more! Click ahead to see all of these and more, in our handy cheat sheet for the warm weather ahead.


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Watch the Gucci Menswear Show Live

Starting at 6:30 a.m. today, the Gucci spring 2014 menswear show will stream live right here. Enjoy!


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Watch how Google brought Street View to the Burj Khalifa (video)

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Google Street View comes to the Burj Khalifa video

Street View's fine for navigation, but we're sure plenty more people use it just for their armchair tourism. Google has now turned its attention to giving thrill-seekers a chance to gaze out from the top of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. Using Trekker backpacks and trolleys, it took the Googlers three days to capture the images from both the viewing gallery on the 124th floor and the window cleaning gantry on the 80th. Curious to experience some of that vertigo for yourself? Video's after the break.

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AOL Reader beta officially available for your RSS-perusing needs (hands-on)

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AOL Reader beta officially available for your RSSperusing needs handson

Wondering how AOL's RSS client will rank as a Google Reader replacement? Today's the day we find out, as the doors to the AOL Reader beta have officially swung open. Feedly's been absorbing Google's castaways for weeks now, and Digg's is only two days away from launching its own freemium RSS client -- but we couldn't resist getting an early taste of what our parent company (Disclaimer alert!) is cooking. Join us after the break for all the details about this latest entrant in the field of feed readers.

AOL Reader hands-on See all photos 11 Photos

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If you're a fan of AOL's Alto email client, you'll be pleased to know that AOL Reader shares the same basic design language. That may seem minor, but UI consistency between services is a major plus, especially since many of the newcomers don't have a core branding to hang their RSS hats from. The web app's layout is pretty simple, with categories, tags and sources on the left, and headlines on the right. When you first fire up AOL Reader on the desktop, that right-most pane is populated with the 10 most active feeds in your collection. Of course, you can always switch from the standard list view to a more Now-like card view or a three-panel display that puts actual article text in a right-hand pane while continuing to display headlines in the middle. Unfortunately, even in three-panel mode, AOL's reader makes pretty poor used of your screen real estate. There's loads of unnecessary padding all over the place and there's no getting rid of the giant, empty gray column on the right. To make matters worse, UI elements shift around as you change layouts, which leaves you hunting for the view button after you've decided the three-panel layout is too cramped.

Sitting atop all this is a straightforward navigation bar, packed with a web search widget and links to AOL Mail, On and Homepage. The most important feature, however, is the ability to quickly import your Google Reader subscriptions with just two clicks... provided you've already exported you data from Reader, unzipped the archive and located your subscriptions.xml file. Even then you'll have to hope that AOL Reader is actually willing to import your feeds. A number of people on the Engadget staff have yet to successfully get the fledgling service to recognize their XML files. At the moment, even adding individual feeds manually occasionally caused the web app to hang. We'll cut it some slack since we're still looking at a beta release, and chalk up some of the issues up to being overwhelmed with traffic, but the inability to actually subscribe to anything might permanently turn off some visitors, even if the problems are only temporary.

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While dedicated apps aren't available yet, the AOL Reader site does come in a mobile-friendly flavor. (AOL tells us that dedicated apps are coming soon, likewise with further integration of third-party services.) The web app works fairly well, propagating across the Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices with nary a rendering glitch in sight. It doesn't hurt that the phone interface borrows heavily from the current crop of native apps out there, with a menu that pops out of the left side and a minimal header populated with only the most basic controls. There's even a fancy floating tool bar in the article view that lets you quickly jump one post back or ahead, and star something for later.

While the interface might seem barren at times, all the most essential features are present. There's a pretty basic feed discovery tool that lets you browse topics or search by keyword and a host of Google Reader-esque keyboard shortcuts, which should have most of you RSS addicts dancing for joy. You can also make your own basic tweaks, like displaying an unread count next to a source, hiding empty feeds and changing the font size. If you're not a fan of the blocky blue and gray default theme, you can change it under settings to a lighter, still-blocky white and gray option. You can also star articles in case you want to read them later.

While we appreciate its clean and simple design, we did encounter some performance issues. More often than not navigating the interface was swift, but it did hang up occasionally, especially when trying to load heavily populated feeds (say, 100 stories or more). Honestly, we think that Feedly has a slight advantage in the speed department, which is somewhat troublesome considering it has loads of features missing from Reader and a much more robust UI.

AOL's (seemingly opportunistic) RSS reader clearly isn't quite ready for prime time and, as it stands, doesn't bring much to the table in the way of unique features. Though, the development team notes that having resources from content creators is something that they're confident will set it apart from the pack. After a few hours of getting familiar with AOL reader, we're not quite enthused enough to switch over from Feedly (and, honestly, we'd much rather Google Reader be granted a stay of execution), but AOL Reader shows some promise. Of all the services vying for title of King of the RSS Hill, AOL's is one of the most unabashed in its aping of Google's soon to be shuttered platform -- and that's not a bad thing. The folks at Mountain View struck pretty much all the right notes when creating Reader, now AOL is simply trying picking up the pieces. That is, if its servers can handle the load.

Sean Buckley, Mat Smith and Terrence O'Brien contributed to this report.

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