Whether it’s choosing the farmers market over Walmart or the Haunted Bookshop over Amazon, Iowa City denizens have a fondness for supporting locally-owned small businesses. In one arena, however, the ability to shop locally is hindered by a complex combination of factors including zoning laws, differing approaches to “economic development” and conservative Midwestern morality. Unlike […]
Photos courtesy of George Eganhouse A recent trip to a conference in Miami turned out to be fortuitous for hairstylist George Eganhouse and four of his colleagues at Iowa City’s Buzz Salon, all of whom scored passes to work backstage last month at New York Fashion Week: Men’s. During a whirlwind day in NYC, Eganhouse […]
During a conference two weeks ago, a colleague in my graduate program asked me for advice about winter shoes. “Where did you move from, again?,” I asked. “Santa Barbara,” she said, wincing slightly, “but I got a coat, so I’m feeling less worried … ?” While many undergraduate, graduate, and professional students—and faculty/staff—arrive here from […]
“I cut my hair off and bought a button down, and discovered the power I have when I walk with my shoulders back,” Kate Hawbaker-Krohn said… […]
When it comes to clothing options for gender nonconforming people living in Iowa City, shopping can be difficult even if one’s aesthetics align… […]
Lucas Mann is the author of ‘Lord Fear’ (Pantheon, 2015), a book-length essay that examines the life of his brother Josh, who died of a heroin overdose… […]
Mission Creek’s Writer in Residence this year is author and… […]
“Having something important to say,” opines The New Yorker’s Richard Brody in his review of Dear White People, “isn’t the same thing as making an important movie, or even a good one.” While Brody found the film to be a too-tame series of “epigrammatic, calculatedly provocative monologues” meant to “simulate” controversy instead of actually causing it, for the most part, critics, audiences and the bulk of the non-racist internet love Dear White People. […]
Halloween is only one week away, but the Iowa City parties have already started. Still deciding on a costume? Ditch the generic and/or offensive … […]
As Meryl Streep explains in her amazing, “cerulean sweater” speech in The Devil Wears Prada, even if one “doesn’t care” about fashion or solely shops second-hand, what happens on the runways of New York City, London, Paris and Milan directly affects what is being sold to you. Trends presented during last February’s Fall/Winter 2014/2015 fashion […]
At first listen, you might think that Todd Snyder — Iowa’s most successful clothing designer — only speaks in soundbites. “Halston came from Des Moines.”
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Iowa fashion aficionados take note: The September edition of Esquire magazine lists Des Moines’ Badowers as the second best menswear store in the country… […]