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Show B2 O F Monday • September 22, 2008 T H E ; - Life V A L B U M V A L L E Y Fashion week and the trickle-down you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, Spring 2009's fashion you're wearing the sweater shows began and ended last that was selected for you by week at Fashion Week in the people in this room." New York, and admittedly, The same is true for us Utah didn't blink an eye. in Utah. The Beehive State is noSo what will trickle toriously far removed from down from the high-street the frontier of fashion, but goings-on of last week to we still can't help but be our humble state? It could affected by the goings-on turn out to be a bit wonderof the fashion elite. Taking ful and a bit terrifying. note of the trends beginning First of all, accept that on the east coast now can you will eventually let help us prepare for what your waistband rise back we'll be wearing when the to your actual waist. This wave hits us, traditionally trend returned after years about two years later. of low-rise silhouettes a A classic example of couple years ago, and it can this is in the movie The already be seen outside of Devil Wears Prada. Meryl mainstream Utah style. Streep (who plays a characThe jumpsuit trend took ter molded after infamous root in the fashion-blogeditor of Vogue U.S. Anna ging world this summer, Wintour) delivers a mono- and jumpsuits were seen logue to her assistant Andy, on several celebrities. As played by Anne Hathaway. predicted, Fashion Week In a scene where the maga- showed several collections zine's executives are choos- with a working-class ining which trends to pro- spired jumpsuit. This could mote, Hathaway is wearing possibly mean overalls are a casual unassuming blue making their way back to sweater, thinking herself the mall. This is one thing above the fashion madness. that states like Utah do very Streep informs her that well — take an innovative several seasons ago, that silhouette and interpret it as same color of blue popped permission to lean back on up on the runways, and that old habits. "that blue represents milAs for this fall, the lions of dollars and count- standout trends from the less jobs, and so it's sort of shows (which took place comical how you.think that • MaSUNDQUIST Life editor W E B S I T E O F T H E in March and April) point to tweed, plaid, peplum, longer leaner skirts, and simple color palettes. My personal favorite- place to check up on the latest fashion shows is style, com, the online branch of Vogue magazine. If you're looking to just see the best of, there are always more fashion blogs to peruse. ambugaton. blogspot.com ChitdhoodRames. blogspot.com FashionToast.com KingdomOfStyle. typepad.co.uk Liebemarlene. blogspot.com LisaPlace.devote. se (Swedish) StyleBubble. typepad.com TheCherryBlossomGirl.com (French) TheVintageSociety.com R E V I E W From Australia Dreamworks With love I JOE MATES Life writer Illustration by Jordy Kirkman / UVU Review I got Eddy Current Suppression Ring's second LP, Primary Colours, in the mail last week. It's the 41st release from the Memphis based Goner Records label. The band is from Australia. I shared a plane ride with them from Memphis to Salt Lake City last year and they were astounded by how well Americans treated them. We traded some records and they went on their way to San Francisco. They went back to Australia and proceeded to make a damn fine record. This brings us up to date. I always check my mailbox as soon as I get home looking for that 13"record shipping box. I get excited when I see one. I walk proudly to my front-door, box in arm, open the door, put my school crap down and walk to my turntable. I open the box, pull out the records, and look at each. I slice the plastic outer sleeve of the Eddy Current record with my thumbnail, which releases the aroma only a new record can release. I pull out the white jacket containing the record. I get excited because the record isn't black; it's one of the ultralimited marble grey ones. I then slap that slab of muddy wax on my turntable and dig on the sounds of one of Australia's best. The record spins and the needle moves and Eddy Current is in great form on this record. They love playing with a weird mixture of droning and choppy guitars, the drums are simpler on this one than the last, the lyrics are simple and effective and the drums, bass and guitar are, the closer I listen, interacting in very remarkable rhythmic ways. I listened to this record about 4 times and it's stayed on the top of the pile. ' A good sign. W E E K Askmen.com The Fathers You Never Had BRENSTEELE ^ Life writer Take Car And Driver, Wired, Maxim, The Economist, Time, and People magazines, add a bit of bodybuilding and just fof the hell of it, a slice of Vogue, throw an intentional male tone over the whole thing and you'd have a gdod idea of what AskMen.com is all about. Portraying itself as a magazine-gone-Web site, AskMen will answer all of the manly questions you need to know. Which direction do I shave? Who is Dick Cheney? How come females avoid my immediate area?. Practically anything one could possibly want to know about the male lifestyle is stored here. 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