From UO Profiles
UO Profiles: Crocodiles
The fuzzy, lo-fi songs of San Diego duo Crocodiles are pure, catchy pop with surprising not-so-sunny side. Fortunately, they’re not nearly as angry as they look.
From About A Girl
About a Girl: Molly Young
Our latest About a Girl is 23-year-old writer and blogger Molly Young, who caught our attention because she’s not just cute and stylish, but pretty smart, too. In addition to her own personal blog, Magic Molly, Young’s work has been featured in More Intelligent Life, n+1, and Maxim. All this, and she’s still in bed by 10 pm.
From LSTN
LSTN #5
For our fifth installment of LSTN, we’ve partnered with iTunes—but we’re still bringing you 23 wicked, rad, awesome, bang-up, freaking dope tracks—all for free. Major Lazer, Grizzly Bear, St. Vincent, The Delta Spirit, Phoenix, Hecuba and Jeremy Jay are just some that populate this list, so open the sunroof and get a cherry limeaide: Welcome to summer.
From Features
All Summer in a Weekend
To make the most out of these hedonistic months, hit up a music festival. Better yet, hit up lots of them. From 24-hour daylight in Norway to Mötley Crüe at the Peace & Love Festival and the Dead’s only summer show, we’ve rounded up this summer’s 30 hottest music festivals. Now all you’ve got to do is get yourself there.
From Designer Collaborations
Cool, Casual, by Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Slow and Steady Wins the Race, the conceptual New York-based fashion line, has now created Cool, Casual, a collection exclusively for Urban Outfitters that combines clever construction with a humorous, quirky, and casual aesthetic. In conjunction, the Slow and Steady Wins the Race pop-up shop is now open at Space 15 Twenty, as well as Slam Dunk, a Slow and Steady Wins the Race-curated art show at Space 15 Twenty’s Gallery Space. Here, you can find the entire Cool, Casual, lookbook, and a special video Slow and Steady Wins the Race created just for UO.
From About A Girl
About a Girl: Alexandra Cassaniti
Our latest About A Girl is designer and surfer Alexandra Cassaniti, who is one rad chick—hardworking and intelligent, her line of eternal summer collections is funny and unlike anything else out there. We caught up with Alexandra in her home hood of Los Feliz, Los Angeles, to talk fashion, cultural studies, and catching a wave.
From Features
The Next Generation
If you want to know what the future looks like, ask an intern—so we did. Here, five fashion interns give their take on working hard, playing hard and dressing well. Plus, tips from a couple of pros on how to be the best intern ever.
From UO Profiles
UO Profiles: Krysten Ritter
Krysten Ritter’s story is what American dreams are made of (or at least American television shows): After being discovered at her hometown mall, she was a successful model before ditching the industry and turning the experience into comedic fodder. Now an actress and singer, Ritter stars in the Gossip Girl-prequel Valley Girls, but she’s still a little bit hipster at heart.
From UO Profiles
UO Profiles: Lissy Trullie
With their EP, Self-Taught Learner out, and a tour on the horizon, Lissy Trullie may be the epitome of cool—but only most of the time.
From UO Inside
UO Inside: A Continuous Lean
A few weeks ago, Michael Williams from A Continuous Lean paid a visit to our offices, so we returned the favor (or more like invited ourselves) and dropped by his Manhattan apartment. He served us drinks in Springer Spaniel glasses, showed us his collections, and made us feel right at home.
From UO Profiles
UO Profiles: The Whip
With the release of their album X Marks Destination, Manchester dance-quartet The Whip showed that they know how to make good party music. And on their North American tour, they show they know how to party. We caught up with them one night in Philadelphia, where they planned to channel Rocky and tackle the steps.
From UO Shoots
UO Shoots: Coac(d)hella
What do you get when you send popular modeling blog Confessions of a Casting Director to Coachella? A bunch of hot street-style pics, for one. We teamed up with COACD to have them report back on all the sun, fun and fashion, Indio-style. Here, their selects reveal that there’s no shortage of beautiful people at Coachella, but someone might have stolen all the shirts.
From UO Interviews
UO Interviews: Leila Moss
Leila Moss is hot and she rules. Not only that, she’s intelligent, articulate, funny, friendly, very good at singing and tambourining, and she let me pester her the day after she got home from a three month world tour with her band The Duke Spirit. Yeah, she’s got it all. However, there was a time when she wasn’t the queen of the indy-vixens; in fact there was a time when she was just a little fat kid with a boy’s haircut! Can you imagine?
From UO Shoots
UO Shoots: Skye Parrot & Valentine Fillol-Cordier
In addition to their photographer+model relationship, Skye Parrott and Valentine Fillol-Cordier are also close friends and frequent collaborators. In an editorial for Dossier Journal—a magazine that Parrott co-founded with Katherine Krause—Parrott and Fillol-Cordier paired up once again to present their take on Kim Gordon’s Mirror/Dash collection. The resulting images are just as dreamy, romantic and rock ‘n’ roll as we would imagine them to be.
From UO Inside
UO Inside: Christian Joy Studio
Most known for her eccentric designs—a skeleton with spilling guts, various witches, spacemen and jokers—for Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead singer Karen O., Christian Joy’s designs are anything but traditional. She briefly produced her own line before deciding to focus entirely on art and costumes, and recently had her first solo exhibition, The Visitors Must Be Amused, at Audio Visual Arts in New York. And truly, making crazy, out-of-this-world stuff is what Joy does best. We stopped by her Brooklyn studio to see how she does it.
From UO Interviews
UO Interviews: Japanese Motors
Japanese Motors are a bunch of golden boys from Orange County who weren’t feeling quite so golden when we caught up with them on the back of a sold-out tour with Modest Mouse. Here, our interview with Alex Knost, Andrew Atkinson, and Nick Soderberg during a crazy schedule at SXSW. Sadly, guitarist Nolan Hall was still out driving around in the van, looking for a parking spot.
From UO Interviews
UO Interviews: Karen O
With the release of their third studio album, It’s Blitz, the YYYs are definitively no longer just grimy New York art-punkers, but a polished trio of established rockstars. We recently caught up with Karen O. and found out that as bulletproof as she may seem, there are still a few things that intimidate this singer in a superhero suit—namely, planes and drugstore security guards.
From LSTN
LSTN #4
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is free music! Twenty-one free tracks, to be exact, from the likes of The Golden Filter, Mapei, Mos Def, Little Boots...and 17 more.
From UO Interviews
UO Interviews: Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Slow and Steady Wins the Race began in 2002 as a collection that was as much about social commentary as it was about fashion. From bodega bags rendered in expensive crocodile skin to a $100 wedding dress, each Slow and Steady item is carefully considered and presented in a new context. Small collections debut at regular intervals and remain perpetually available. We recently partnered with Slow and Steady to create Cool, Casual, and working with them has reaffirmed that you don’t get much smarter than this.
From UO Shoots
UO Shoots: Jennifer Herrema & Mike Piscitelli
Jennifer Herrema is a bonafide rockstar—one-half of the legendary Royal Trux and currently the front-woman for RTX. Mike Piscitelli is a photographer and video director, currently shooting John, a documentary about Ozzy Osbourne. They have a lot in common—namely that they’re both bad-ass. Though Piscitelli and Herrema didn’t know each other, we recently sent them out on a recent rainy afternoon to cruise the Pacific Coast Highway with some clothes and a digital camera. We trusted that they’d have plenty to talk about, and they didn’t disappoint.