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Slightly messy and combed forward, this retro-coif gives this fashion rebel a cause. Heat-activated Aveda Control Paste makes this style easy to maintain...
...Jennifer Bruder, owner of New York City's Berkley Girl, a tween and teen boutique. In fact, girls often roll them down twice, testing school dress-code limits on short shorts. The must-have shoe to wear with the shorts: equally sporty old-school-styled kicks, especially the groovy retro-looking Puma Mostros New Mesh sneakers...
Sneakers are the all-purpose shoe: universal and utilitarian. Hardly the stuff of fetishes and exotic collections. But that's changing. Retro collectible sneakers, until recently the domain of fashionistas and fanatical sneakerheads, are now a growing force in the athletic-shoe game. The field boasts its own websites, and exclusive, often unmarked rare-sneaker shops are popping up nationwide. These vintage kicks are even the stuff of urban art, with former pro skateboarder Chris Hall planning to display his collection this month at the Aurora Gallery in New York City. In addition, "Sneaker Pimps," an exhibition featuring rare...
...many shoe nerds, Nike rules. Since it first issued a retro Air Jordan in 1994, Nike has consistently created some of the rarest, most coveted sneakers. In 2001 in a Sacramento, Calif., mall, 60 police officers in riot gear faced a tense crowd of 200 people ready to battle over 80 pairs of Nike Jordan Retro XIs that were being put up for sale. This summer the most coveted shoe is the Nike Heineken Dunk, the first in a six-pack of collectible Dunks. Riot cops, beware. There were reportedly only 1,000 pairs made. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...hard-boiled dialogue is straight out of classic Hollywood, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Anglo-American spy spoof. If Bond and Matt Helm outrageously flout social norms, MM seems to follow an inverted morality, almost defying the reader to accept him. Yet there's something charmingly retro about Bahal's "outlaw" approach. His closest literary parallel is with the Beats: the grim, druggy surrealism of William S. Burroughs, the headlong rush of Jack Kerouac...