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What's Wrong With Urban Outfitters?

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:35:00 EST

News of Urban Outfitters C.E.O. Glen Senk's abrupt resignation — he is reportedly heading to jeweler David Yurman, where he will be unlikely to be called upon to publicly explain a Navajo Flask to anyone — has sent the company's stock price into a tail spin. It's not clear whether Senk was pushed out, but Urban Outfitters' weak results are hardly a secret. More »

Free People Inflicts Rich Hippie Aesthetic On Children

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:15:00 EST

Free People is the land of layers and layers of overpriced, fauxhemian handmade knits and a general sloppy homeless-ish chic. In the Holiday 2010 catalog, this mismatch patchwork way of putting clothes together was passed on to the innocent kiddies. More »

Free People: For March, The Ugliest Shoes & Clothes To Match

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EDT

The back cover of the March Free People catalog featured The Ugliest Shoes Ever Conceived. Viewing those shoes was such a traumatizing experience, we delayed actually looking inside the pages, should worse monstrosities lurk there. Guess what? They do! More »

Free People & The Ugliest Shoes Ever Conceived

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:40:00 EST

Monday I received an email about the March Free People catalog. "I am cleaning the vomit off of myself," wrote the tipster. "Just wait until you see the slouch clog." Yesterday? Another email: More »

Claire Danes Shills For Weird Lash Product; Christian Siriano Returns To Bravo

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:30:00 EST

Claire Danes and her spooky, enhanced spiderleg eyelashes will soon be staring down at you from ads for Latisse, the eyelash-growing goop that has this totally minor side effect where sometimes it permanently changes a user's eye color. [AOL]

February At Free People: Faux Flower Child Fashion Costs A Pretty Penny

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:00:00 EST

In December, Free People issued a catalog full of Woodstock-y, Summer Of Love-ish, hippie-dippie threads being sold for preposterous prices. Not much has changed! Ahead: Flower child dresses, bamboo bloomers and overalls so expensive you'll have to sell your VW. More »

Free People: Let's Pretend It's The Summer Of '69

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:00:00 EST

California dreamin'… on such a winter's day! Let's play Summer Of Love! Let's dress like Janis and listen to Jimi! Let's pretend the '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s never happened! Let's pretend $78 is a fair price for frayed shorts! More »

Free People Wishes You Hippie Holidays

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:20:00 EST

If you're a trust fund kid who longs to look worldly, poor and thoughtful, you're in luck. The November Free People catalog knows that nothing says "Christmas" like overpriced crochet and a headband. More »

Free People: Winning Us Over With Cute, Cuddly Critters

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:00:00 EDT

Free People has given us many different styles: Hideous, overpriced thrift store; Iron Curtain; crafty, crocheted crap and Darjeeling Limited chic. And we hated them all! But photographing models with dogs and cats from the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society? Smart! More »

Free People's Tops Can Be Worn Many Ways, Several Of Them Stoopid

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:30:00 EDT

It just seems like no matter how you tie this thing, it looks dumb. Another weird item after the jump. More »

9/11 Truther Nabs Fancy Perfume Campaign

TatianaTheAnonymousModel — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:30:00 EDT

In a move that smacks of Chanel-Audrey-Jean-Pierre, Dior announced it's making a 6 1/2 minute online perfume ad with Marion Cotillard and Olivier Dahan, who of course directed Cotillard in La Vie En Rose. [WWD]

Smell Like Amanda Lepore For Under $1,000; Supermodel Births Superbaby

TatianaTheAnonymousModel — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:30:00 EST

Amanda Lepore has a scent which is more art project than perfume — sold at a gallery for $950, the crystal bottle contains notes of steamed rice, mandarins, champagne, and cucumber. It's fermented. [NY Times]

At Free People, Spring Has Sprung, And It's Hideous

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:00:00 EST

It's 31° in NYC, but it's a beachy, balmy 80-something on the pages of February's Free People catalog. Almost like a mini-vacation! One where the clothes are so foul, you'll have intestinal issues. More »

Shipwrecked!

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:30:00 EDT

The November issue of Vogue features a "Field Of Dreams" photo shoot starring Natalia Vodianova, her husband and kids. In the opening spread, the family is standing in a boat which is moored on dry land. For those of you keeping count, this is the fourth time since August we've seen a double-page spread of models posing in a boat on dry land or very shallow water. Glamour and Bazaar did it in September; Free People did it in the October We The Free catalog. Are wooden boats a trend? Are we gonna see them at Forever 21? (Click the image at left to enlarge and to see the complete fleet of ships.) More »

This Week Things Got Ugly Up In Here

Jessica G. — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:30:00 EDT

Less than a month until the election, folks, and it's getting really ugly.
John McCain sounding like a total loon during the debates, calling Obama "That One": ugly.
Illogical republican strategists yelling at Newsweek for putting a (gasp!) un-retouched photo of Sarah Palin on the cover: ugly!
Nikki Blonsky kicking Bianca Golden's mom in the vagina at an airport: ugly!
At least we have the unarguably awesome Sarah Vowell and Donna Brazile to guide us through the ugliness.
Though they can't really fix the ugly in this mess of the economy... or this Free People catalog.

Free People: More Overpriced Thrift Store Crap Masquerading As Vintage Chic

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:40:00 EDT

God, I hate the new Free People catalog. I hate the faux-cigarette burns or whatever those are on the cover. I hate that there are illustrations of clothes inside. I hate that the weathered, worn, clothes that you'd find on the floor at the Salvation Army often cost over $100. I hate some other stuff, too: Seethe with me, after the jump. More »

Using A Woman Of Color As The "Background" In A Photo Shoot: It's Not Okay

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:40:00 EDT

A couple of days ago, a post titled "Background Color" appeared on Racialicious. The jumping-off point is a photograph, by Alex Hoerner, from Nylon magazine (at left), in which Beth Ditto from The Gossip is playing cards with the housekeeper in a motel. And yeah, the housekeeper is a woman of color. The post's author, Mimi, writes: "In the story that coalesces for me, studying this photograph, she has just been forced to play cards with a guest — not because she wants to, but because she could lose her job if she doesn’t. Nor does the game even feel like a break from her domestic labor; this sort of affective labor is no less taxing. In her mind (in the story I imagine about this editorial), she calculates how much longer she’ll have to stay and clean in order to meet her day’s quota." More »

Free People: Hideous Iron-Curtain Nostalgia Will Set You Back A Few Rubles

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:00:00 EDT

The new Free People catalog arrived, and it is full of fugly: Mismatched patterns, awkward layers, misshapen knits and (yikes!) elephantine bell-bottoms. If you love sleek, polished, pretty and sophisticated clothing, you're out of luck! Oh, the catalog has a rather "international" look, to be sure, but it's not as "jet set" as it is "oppressed proletariat." Bolshevik babe duds have a place in this world — just not in my closet. Faux-rustic ensembles for the plebe in you, after the jump. More »

Summer At 'Free People': Crafty Crocheted Crap, At Twice The Price Of Thrift Stores!

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:00:00 EDT

The May Free People catalog has arrived, and its "global" aesthetic has gone all '70s California girl. But the prices the company is charging for some of this retro boho? Enough to make your ironed hair curl. Oh, and here's a question: Is it okay to have a "Tibetan Festival dress" in a catalog called "Free People"? Overpriced pseudo-homespun "worldly" wares, after the jump. More »

Urban Outfitters, Free People & Anthropologie: What's The Difference?

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:20:00 EDT

Did you know that Urban Outfitters, Free People and Anthropologie, are all owned by Urban Outfitters Inc.? But they sort of have their own distinct vibes. Sort of. Free People skews younger, brighter, more gypsy chic; Urban Outfitters is edgy and dark; Anthropologie skews older, more expensive, more ladylike but still vaguely ethnic and crafty. But each catalog uses one blonde-haired model and one brunette — and they love the "exotic" backdrops. And really, they're all shilling the same damn crocheted, patterned, flowy, unique yet ubiquitous clothing. Given a page from one of their newest catalogs, can you tell which brand is being represented? A quiz, after the jump. More »

This Week We Choo-Choo-Chose Polyamory, The Cosby Kids, Mariah Carey And Cunts

Jessica G. — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:20:00 EST

Love was in the air this week, especially for these gorillas who were doing it missionary. From now on, missionary sex will be referred to as "gorilla style."

Free People: Someone Watched The Darjeeling Limited Before Booking This Photo Shoot

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:40:00 EST

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Did you see Darjeeling Limited? The one where the brothers go on a trip through India, carrying luggage made by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton? Think the people who put together the Free People catalog did? They chose India — Jaipur, to be exact — as the setting for their new photo shoot. And chose a sunny blonde (à la Owen Wilson?) to star. Sixty-eight dollar T-shirts, four hundred dollar necklaces and brown people as accessories, after the jump. More »

'Free People', August 2007: Luxuriating Lolitas and $400 Shoes

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:30:00 EDT

The Free People catalog is beautifully shot, but the half-naked teenage girls and $400 shoes give us pause. Hey, $400 shoes have their place — but when everything else in the catalog is relatively well-priced, it's just odd. Let's take a look, shall we? More »

Urban Outfitters Bloggers Hang Out With People Who, Like, Make Their Babydoll Dresses Or Something

Moe — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:07:14 EDT

In theory, our only beef with retail chains having bloggers is that Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't have one whose ex-boyfriend he can IM about how it might have worked out if he weren't so overt about his gayness. Anyway, Urban Outfitters spawn brand Free People, like American Apparel before it, has a blog. And guess what! Like American Apparel it blogs about hanging out with its factory workers! Today's post introduces us to Kit Yee, who "works for one of the factories we work with" in Hong Kong and just paid a visit to the Urban Outfitters corporate campus in Philadelphia:

She saw a lot of Philadelphia during her stay, including a visit to Franklin Fountain on Market St. She loved the egg cream!

How cute! But why do we have an inkling most people working full-time at the world's leading hotbed of hipsterexia would never actually themselves go to Franklin Fountain? Maybe because we, um, just know. More »