Best (Worst?) New Fashion Design That's Also Probably Just Trolling Us: The "Suitsy," a suit-onesie hybrid.
-- Abby Schreiber
Best New Hi-Lo Restaurant: Newly-opened
Birds + Bubbles on the Lower East Side where you can get a bucket of fancy fried chicken and a bottle of champagne for $55. A.K.A. the meal of our dreams.
-- Maggie Dolan
Best Performance of "Rude" by a Fiddler on the Roof Cast: The cast of a Connecticut production of
Fiddler, who
nailed a lip sync routine to the song and implicitly challenged Magic!, the Canadian hotshots who originated the track, to respond with a dancehall rendition of "If I Were a Rich Man."
Oh wait...
-- James Rickman
Best Voice That Always Makes Us Want to Slide Down a Wall Crying: Karen O's. Ms. O is back with a solo album,
Crush Songs, and has been playing little shows all over the city. Here's a clip from a recent performance she gave in an apartment.
-- Elizabeth Thompson
Worst 'Conscious Uncoupling' News of the Week: Mama June and Sugar Bear who are supposedly splitting up after she caught him cheating on her with online dating sites. LOVE IS DEAD, PEOPLE.
-- AS & ET
Best 'Conscious Uncoupling' News of the Week: The
probable break-up of the Canadian Monster energy drink pink cherckerboard wrist cuffs fever dream couple that is Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne. Let's just pretend this never happened.
-- ET
Can't Stop, Won't Stop Beauty Trend of the Week: FKA Twigs-esque slicked down baby hairs, which popped up at
DKNY, The Blonds,
Clover Canyon and now at
Prada.
-- AS
Artsiest Belfies (Well, Or Just Butt Photos): Taschen's soon-to-be-released 3D version of its
Big Butt Book, which comes complete with glasses and a handful of new butts. That last part came out weird.
-- JR
Instagram Account You Should Be Following of the Week: Aside from these
ten art 'grams, it's a tie between
a feed of
attractive Icelandic policemen and women doing cute stuff and
DILFs of Disneyland.
-- AS
Best Photo of the Week: Eric McNatt's outtake of Kim Gordon in our September issue. She's rocking a Rodarte jersey with no pants. If I look like this when I'm 61, I will consider my life a success.
-- ET
On Point Revelation of the Week: Smart phones are basic and
flip phones are for cool people.
-- AS [Image via
Medium]
Most Important Pop Culture Reference to Barbie Since Aqua's "Barbie Girl": Jeremy Scott's second collection for Moschino, which was inspired by the plastic princess of pink and it was fantastic. ALL PINK EVERYTHING.
-- MD
Best Mail Order Book Splurge: Julia Wertz's personalized copies of
Museum of Mistakes, a new anthology of her beloved comic strip, which is being sold on her Etsy story. This is your chance to own an original piece of
Fart Party magic.
-- JR
Brunch Party You'll Actually Want To Go To: Multitask, a new Sunday bash at Tandem Bark in Bushwick where you can eat, day drink, listen to DJs and shop at a fashion market curated by Whatever 21 and Moves and featuring clothes by local designers BCALL, RHLS and more. It's like Bagatelle but for art punks.
-- AS
And, Speaking of Brunch, the Biggest Brunch Hater of the Week: Julian Casablancas. The hybrid meal/all day event
forced the Strokes singer to flee NYC and move upstate. "I don't know how many, like, white people having brunch I can deal with on a Saturday afternoon," he recently told
GQ.
-- Gabby Bess
Trippiest Music Video of the Week: Queer electro-hop duo Double Duchess' new video, "Good Girl Freak Out," starring Kelly Osbourne. -- A.S.