STITCH photographer & photo editor Marcy Capron...

... has a new Etsy store where she is selling her incredible prints. Visit! Buy!!! You won't regret it. She is fast becoming the next big thing in the art world.

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A New Kind of Fugly

The trend on campus? Looking fugly. Fashionably ugly, that is.

The best example of this seems to be the growing tendency to wear those grotesque, hideous sweaters that were hand-knit by some slightly off-kilter relative. Granted, wearing these sweaters in jest has always been somewhat popular, but never has it been such a veritable trend. The best are the sweaters with a vomit-inducing melange of colors or the sweaters with large characters on the front.

The only limit to the acceptable ugliness of a sweater is the wearer's ability to pull off the right attitude. As long as one can muster a hipper-than-thou swagger while walking around in a sweater with a giant Minnie Mouse and tassels on it, the look is sheer fugliness. However, the second the ensemble starts to look like that of a kindergartener who picked out his own clothes for the first time after drinking a Mountain Dew, well then that is just plain ugly.

To look fugly, you've got to back it up with a healthy dose of blase and manage to not look crazy. So boys and girls, this year for Christmas ask your grandmother to knit you a sweater instead of buying one from J. Crew for 89.50 or at least pillage the local thrift store for viable fugly options. Either way, it'll give you more cash in your pocket and more swagger in your step.

Music Video of the Week

France Gall - Laisse Tomber les Filles (music & lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg)

Best Etsy Ever?

Oh my lord, seriously. Etsy user Emily Ryan is talented. Amazingly so. The limited pieces she has up now remind me of a kind of mix between Haider Ackermann and Jil Sander. Will we see more of her in the future, perhaps outside of Internet land? I hope so.

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Take It to the Street

I spend at least hour a day looking at online photos of complete strangers. I know, major creeper activity. But I freaking love my street style Web sites.

Photographing stylish pedestrians is nothing new-- fashionable New Yorkers have been gracing the Style section of the Sunday New York Times for over a decade. But after the Sartorialist, imitators were suddenly, and literally, everywhere. To see the clothes horses tromping around Helsinki, you have Hel Looks; for London, London Street Fashion; Berlin, Stil in Berlin; Prague, Made on Street; Tokyo, Tokyo Street Style, and the list of cities and sites goes on. Google, and you shall receive.

And now, the Sartorial middleman is cut out with the proliferation of online communities where users post photos of their daily outfits. Big names in the game are: Lookbook.nu, Chictopia and What I Wore Today. Here, photos are more camerawhore than candid, yet come off much more personal-- instead of an anonymous fashionista standing on a Milanese street corner, you have Karolina F. from Poland or Wen L. from Guangzhou. You have a face and a name, explanations of where they wore the outfit to, the pretentious indie song lyrics they use as post titles, their apologies for "looking like poo-- i have the flu :( :( ."

So go on now-- Open a new browser window to begin your world adventure, and start clicking away. But remember: There's no place like home.

Music Video of the Week

Kate Bush - Running up that Hill

Garçons, s’il vous plaît…

Finally, the time has come: Comme des Garçons Limited Edition collection for H&M debuts this Thursday. Comme founder Rei Kawakubo promises that the line is "very much Comme des Garçons to its roots." Thus, we can expect a black, white and navy palette, sleek silhouettes, and avant-guarde elegance. "Comme des Garçons" translates to "like the boys," which explains the brand's embrace of the androgynous. The Japanese couture staple usually retails in the thousands, but the Comme pieces for H&M will range from $14.99-350.00. 

If the success of H&M's collaborations with Lagerfeld, Cavalli, and Victor & Rolf are any indication of the demand, you better be reading this post from your tent in front of H&M.