The Drag

• NAME: Mat
  
• AGE: 19
  
  
  
• NAME: Jordyne
  
• AGE: 20
  

Gallery Lombardi

• NAME: Jessica
  
• AGE: 21
  
• OCCUPATION: marketing student
  

Gallery Lombardi

• NAME: Blossom
  
• AGE: 17
  
• OCCUPATION: student
  

Gallery Lombardi

• NAME: Michelle
  
• AGE: 25
  
• OCCUPATION: Broadcast student at UT
  

Birds Barbershop

• NAME: Lindsey
  
• OCCUPATION: Stylist at Birds
  

Birds Barbershop

• NAME: Jolie
  
• OCCUPATION: Stylist at Birds
  

Red River

• NAME: Alex
  
• AGE: 15
  

House Party

• NAME: Kristen
  
• AGE: 24
  
• OCCUPATION: Photographer
  

Austin Tidbits launch party

• NAME: Missy
  
• DID YOU KNOW?: Sewed this dress herself
  

Austin Tidbits launch party

• NAME: Courtney
  
• AGE: 27
  

The Beauty Bar

• NAME: Christen
  
• AGE: 22
  

The Drag

• AGE: 16
  

The Beauty Bar

• NAME: Anna
  
• AGE: 21
  

6th Street

Fashion bandits

And I'm not talking about people who steal your style..more like the type that steal your wallet. The Chronicle reports that two girls are exploiting the niceness of local vintage retailers..evidently they saw the lack of security guards, surveillance cameras and racial profiling as an invitation to rob Feathers, Room Service and other local retailers blind. Boooo, stealing is always out of style.

6th Street

• NAME: Lara
  
• AGE: 24
  
• SHOPS AT: New Bohemia, Room Service
  
• OCCUPATION: Future costume designer
  

5th Street

• NAME: Katy
  
• AGE: 21
  
• OCCUPATION: Senior fashion design student at UT
  
• SHOPS AT: Storyville Boutique
  

The Drag

• NAME: Kate
  
• AGE: 18
  
• OCCUPATION: Student
  

6th Street

• NAME: Keith
  
• AGE: 16
  
• OCCUPATION: Student
  

The Beauty Bar

• NAME: Sarah
  
• AGE: 24
  
• OCCUPATION: Costume Designer
  

Life "After a Fashion"

Is Austin Chronicle style columnist, Stephen Moser, about to be dethroned by his readers?:
" In this week's 'After a Fashion' column Stephen Moser launches into a hyperbolic non-specific rant targeting the entire local fashion scene in Austin...Is Austin's fashion scene amateurish? Of course. There is no professional fashion industry in Austin and anyone who thinks that sort of infrastructure is going to magically appear in a town this size is fooling themselves. Yet between Linklater's films, SXSW, vintage shops a-plenty and L.A. dealers snapping up western wear from the surrounding small towns Austin still manages to influence contemporary fashion and style far beyond the city limits...Turn to the fashion column in the Chronicle and all you're going to hear about is who Moser went drinking with that week and where they went and which lovely young men he finds 'dreamy.'"
-From and anonymous "Stylecritic" at the Austin Chronicle

"Though it is often pretty amusing, the July 14 and 28 "After a Fashion" [Arts] made me question the point of the column's existence...Or, perhaps, Margaret (Moser, Stephen's sister) could find him employment elsewhere?"
-Jen Arffmann in the Austin Chronicle