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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Fashion Celebrities Continue to Terrorize Apparel Industry

Posted by Marjorie Skinner on Wed, Mar 5 at 5:04 PM

Ok, first the good(ish) news: I kind of admire Matthew McConaughey because he figured out how to be the richest career beach bum stoner I know of. So I find this less offensive than endearing:

The shirt- and often shoe-averse Matthew McConaughey is gearing up to launch his own line of swimwear and other beach accoutrements this summer, developing the line under his j.k. livin brand, so named after his personal mantra—”the j’s for just, the k’s for keep, no g cause life’s a verb“—which already encompasses a production company and record label.

(I really don’t understand the part about the “g”, by the way.)

According McConaughey’s rep, the new line will include swimsuits, T-shirts, Frisbees and “everything and anything you need for the beach.”

In much more offensive celeb ~~landfill~~ design news, Avril Lavigne’s new line of clothing for Khol’s (vomit) is due in July:

“It’s rock glam: fun, colorful, young and edgy,” Avril Lavigne says of her new clothing line in the latest of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.
Abbey Dawn, named after the nickname her dad calls her, will debut at Kohl’s stores nationwide in July.

The threads (ranging from $24 to $48) mimic the “Complicated” singer’s signature skater-girl-chic style and include hoodies, jeans and tees in bright colors and skull and zebra patterns.

Oh, I’m sorry, excuse me. What I meant to say is that I don’t think anyone should take guidance from this person on how to dress, especially when it means swathing yourself in—ever more—cheap pieces of shit.

End rant.

(More fashion ranting yonder.)

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Apparently Matthew McConaughey has some sort of sick vendetta against gerunds.

Avril Lavigne's capitalizing off the already-too-popular "rainbow + skull" tween esthetic shows nothing but the same good taste that Matthew McConaughey has shown by being a blowhard. If he knew real success, he probably wouldn't be surrounded by an entourage telling him it would be an okay idea to make his own brand of “everything and anything you need for the beach”(which assumably includes bongs and condoms and little syringes of adrenaline).

If there must be a j. k. livin brand, then so be it. I won't even compare Avril's "cheap pieces of shit" with 9 of every 10 movies that star Matthew McConaughey. My only question is what the frisbees did to deserve this.

Posted by Becca | March 6, 2008 12:23 AM

All fashion is meaningless anyway. And you can't tell me that anything Avril wears is any more moronic than 95% of the trash those stick-figures on the runway trot around in. Same goes for the overpriced boho rags the local designers in this fair city produce.

Posted by Casey | March 6, 2008 9:52 AM

Avril REALLY creeps me out when she smiles.

Posted by Beer Batter | March 6, 2008 10:56 AM

excuse me,
but how is her outfit any worse than a purple jumpsuit with a keyboard on it?
i bet the jumpsuit costs more.

Posted by go local or just get good taste | March 6, 2008 12:37 PM

Haha I do really like this post.

”the j’s for just, the k’s for keep, no g cause life’s a verb“

I think that is the funniest thing I have ever heard in my life. Not to mention that who could possibly figure out what the HELL "no g cause life’s a verb“ could possibly mean? Is he retarded? Does he not know that a present participle is a verb? Is he just making up random things and pretending it makes sense?

Well, more power to him. I guess. It IS kinda endearing.

Avril, on the other hand, is gross. Setting aside all thoughts on her music, her style is like Hot Topic but even worse. Fake, affected, and cheap.

But maybe fake, affected, and cheap is cool these days. Like some kinda meta-post-irono-meta-post-post-post-post-modernism.

Hooray for the 21st century.

Posted by raven | March 7, 2008 1:32 PM

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