In today’s Representing With Kyle, Kyle and his new pals ponder the fashion challenges presented when sunbathing in the park. Click here to watch more Representing With Kyle.

· Eagles Skankleaders update: They’ve gone green! “DEVAN[pictured] is wearing an organic cotton top with windmill graphic and organic cotton bikini bottoms; windmill necklace symbolizing alternative energy; pendant imprinted with the word ‘green’ made from silver collected from old film which was combined with an organic binder and fired to create a silver medium that [...]

· Fact: Emilio Pucci was a Godlike Genius and the entire female race is better for him having stormed through the 20th Century like a hellion of color and adventure. Smaller, but no less interesting, fact: Marilyn Monroe demanded that she be buried wearing Pucci, and in point of fact, was. So when we got [...]

Over the last few years, R5 Productions‘ Punk Rock Flea Market has become a biannual tradition that brings together a vast array of the Philly art/music/hipster/whatever populace, selling everything from Junk Nobody Wants to hand-crafted clothing and wares to records you’ve been looking for since forever. And when it hits the Starlight Ballroom this Saturday, [...]

· This has to be groundbreaking news of some sort: Instead of paying fresh-out-of-college kids to knock off crunchy-ish alt-designer Steven Alan, Urban Outfitters has done the unthinkable and actually partnered with the dude. Ooooh, Johnny Cupcakes must be soooooo salty right now. [NYMag] · Four people in Media may or may not have stolen $1M [...]

>>> The list of vendors appearing at the Popped! festival has been announced. In addition to local non-profit organizations and radio stations, some local designers and merchants will be selling their wares. Let’s take a looksy: Red Hook Café from Queen Village, an independently owned coffee and tea shop will be selling Fair Trade coffee [...]

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We wondered a few months ago what was up with the then-mysterious Reward project, a new shop TBA headed up by longtime Urban Outfitter Shari Roulin. Well, now we know: See that shop at right? Used to be Big Jar Books (adieu, my sweet prince! we shall see you all at Brickbat!), but come mid- [...]

· Fans of t-shirts and music: WE CREATE CLOTHING is throwing a kick off party tonight at AKA Music to launch their new fashion line. Slingshot Dakota and Algernon Cadwallader will perform live at 5pm. We all know how much music fans love to wear t-shirts so this event seems like a match made in [...]

Ron Crawford is the sneaker store UBIQ‘s “Mr. Everything” here in Philly. So by that extension, to a certain strata of Sneaker People, he is the Everything of Everything. Ron does the buying for the store, along with the marketing and general day-to-day operations of the store on 1509 Walnut St. But he’s also an [...]

· Yesterday, we took note of 76er Samuel Dalembert’s blipster frohawk. (Have two words together ever been so sublime as “blipster frohawk?” No, son. No. ) Today, the Inky’s Peter Mucha earns his dough by pondering “The Frohawk Curse.” Don’t fight it, feel it. [Inky] · If you are going to make God angry and yourself [...]

· It’s a well-established Hipster Talking Point® that, maaaan, American Apparel is like, ruuuuuuining fashion, a point which would be more well-taken if not most often delivered by people wearing American Apparel. For those of you that were wondering about, you know, how your AmAp stock options were working out, wellllllll, there’s this. But on [...]

· Confession time: We ran into Project Jay at National Mechanics a coupla months ago, and he was just suuuuuuch an outsize, raunchy, nasty, mean bitch to us that we’ve been slapping him on the wrists ever since. But that all stops today, because within the first 120 seconds of this interview on The 10! [...]

· Mrs. Pleasant has returned. After some time in Brooklyn, Philly native Emily Amarnick is back full of inspiration with a new collection of vintage pieces. As a fashion stylist and artist, she provides quality, moderately priced one of a kind vintage and vintage-inspired clothing, accessories, house wares and handmade cards at her site mpVintage. [...]

· Clothing designer and Drexel graduate Liza Goncalves (clothing pictured to the right ) is excited about trying tea bagging. But not in that way. “I want to try using teabags to stain the shirts to give them that real vintage feel”, she says when discussing ideas for her new line, Vintage Blue, inspired by [...]

· It is with great regret that we tell you that as of May 31, P.A.D Home Furnishings in Northern Liberties will be closing down. ‘Twas a great shop for many things, and we’re sad to see it go. Says P.A.D.’s Peter D’Orsaneo, “Though not an easy decision to make, Christy and I have agreed that [...]

· Fashion-wise, we are in a very precarious seasonal position: You want spring, you can almost feel it sometimes, but the fact is, even the weekend after next, we’re looking at highs of 42. So we say: Gamble on the fall/winter clearance sales that abound right now. We like Os Os Clothing‘s 50% clearance jawn, [...]

· Step right this way, folks, it’s another Elizabeth Wellington middle-to-low-brow trend piece that’s sure to have you asking the heavens, “Why, God, why is this woman the fashion writer for a paper of record in a major American city?” But God cannot hear you. He has stuffed his ears with a pair of $92 [...]

Ladies of the ‘Stitch, we salute you: Topstitch Boutique, which has become an instant fave, it seems, is having its one-year anniversary party tomorrow eve. Click on super micro mini teeny tiny flyer at right to enlarge for details. Also for your First Friday itinerary: Deep Sleep boutique is having an opening as well: China [...]

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Pumas? It has now been done (pictured). Oh, what’s that? You want a fluorescent watch to complete the look? We’re on it. [Hypebeast] Silkscreening wildmen and documented Kenzos the Labold Brothers: Sure, we knew they were stars in that everybody-is-one kind of way, but get a load of what happens when [...]