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Fashion Peace – Love – Spandex

September 12, 2011 - 10:48 am

The future of super hero party style.

For fashion designer, wardrobe stylist, Angela McBride, spandex is a way of life. The self-taught seamstress has created countless amounts of stretchy goodness while hustling her way to the top. Working runway shows, styling photo shoots, to dressing the biggest names in entertainment today.

She’s currently taking over the city with Aptemal Clothing on a line of “DETROIT HUSTLES HARDER” spandex and booty shorts. She continues building her brand while promoting her work as a stylist for all types: hip hop, rock stars, whatever, she can do it all. Angela’s latest gig includes making some gear for the ultimate party band –LMFAO- who totally embodies what Peace Love and Spandex is all about: High energy fun, dressing up and getting down!

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Music Raver Chic At The Electric Zoo

by Courtney Dudley

September 9, 2010 - 2:06 pm

If you thought raver style went out with the 90’s, you are wrong. It still exists and is going strong, as exhibited this weekend at New York’s Electric Zoo. There was a strong showing of the favorites– tons of neon, beaded bracelets and so, so much glitter. But it seems 2010’s ravers are taking it to the next level by mixing current trends with old electro staples.

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Gallery Music Sex, Drugs, and Sunglasses: Hard Fest 2010

by Dustin Downing

August 9, 2010 - 1:07 pm

A pupilometer is a device which is used by an ophthalmologist to test the response of a person’s pupil to visual stimuli. Ya know that hole in your eyeball that a friendly police officer tends to enjoy shining a light in when you’ve had 2 or 16 beers. It’s been determined that the amount of dilation of the pupil in the eye can be proportional to the amount of particular interest in a subject. The size of dilation indicates an increase in mental processes, but the speed of dilation can also be a sign of drug use or intoxication. I.e. Mr. Flashlight. HARD fest was this weekend in La-La land and I decided that this would be an opportune time to study this very phenomena my scientific self. But, with a camera flash. The following gallery I believe will duly support my early hypothesis: I believe the crowd will be very into the show and thus pupils will be dilated to reflect said peeked interest. Either that or as one police officer in attendance relayed to me, “These f#@king kids are whacked out of their GD minds”…

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Gallery Urban Exploration “Signs of the Times”- Detroit Edition

by Dustin Downing

July 2, 2010 - 12:19 pm

“The average American consumes a whopping 34GB of data and 100,000 words of information per day.” Holy overload Batman! Thankfully, some of that information I shot in Detroit Rock City was pretty easy on the eyes.

Photos by Dustin Downing

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Gallery Music Portrait of A Movement :: Detroit 2010

by Dustin Downing

June 4, 2010 - 1:59 pm

The spirit of a movement lies in the hearts, and in this case the costumes, of its people. We say goodbye to this year’s Movement Electronic Music Festival with a look at the crazy characters who made it special.

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