I love forever 21, which is a clothing store for teens, adults, and some guys. Forever 21 clothes are just so fashionable and trendy. I love shopping there. I’m a fashionable person so the jewelry there helps me to accessorize and complete my outfit. They have all types of jewelry, from long chains to short ones, bows, bracelets, earrings, gold accessories and silver ones. They have a lot of things that’s why I love this store. Read more...

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Gothic industrial culture is a culture in itself, where people who have like interests come together. I really enjoy this subculture because of the music, art and fashion. The music tells stories about certain things in my life. There was a time when I was constantly fighting with my grandmother and it really hurt me. The way I eased my hurt inside was by listening to this music to let out what I was feeling. I really related to what I was listening to. The music is very sad, slow, angry, loud, or even screaming. Some artists that contribute to this subculture play metal, rock, grunge, techno, and alternative music. In my opinion, the music is very important to this subculture. To me the lyrics really ment more than they literatlly were. Read more...

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I recently just bought my first pair of uggs! The uggs brand  is known for its  warm and comfortable boots.best for using in the cold winter days. There are styles for just about everyone and every age. Uggs orignated from australia and new zealand about 200 years ago. Orignally, they were called "ug or ugh boots" which is  short for "ugly". However, an american importer presented the idea that the name ugg comes from the way that the boot "hugs" the wearers foot and legs.

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A new fashion trend may be coming across the ocean, turning twitter language into an accessory.

A company in The Netherlands called TweetRings.com, enables you to submit your favorite 140 character tweet and have it engraved on a ring band.  The rings come in steel (89 Euros) , silver (99 Euros), and titanium (109 Euros). The company's slogan reads, "Your favorite tweet wrapped around your finger."

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I remember how excited I was when “Sister, Sister” came on when i was little, back in the 90’s. I knew the exact times, too. There was no such thing as a “guide” button on the remote. I’d sit there and watch Tia and Tamara grow from day to day. I would compare myself to them, i’d think to myself, “oh I have a beauty mark, and curly hair, too!” I wanted to be like them. I mean, was that so bad? Read more...

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Youth Radio recently profiled a company called Mr. Youth, a marketing agency targeting youth consumers. They claim to be experts in engaging young people, which includes enticing young people to remain on their own payroll for long periods of time. They were recently voted one of the best places to work in New York City by Crain's magazine.

Mr. Youth recently collaborated with Intrepid, to conduct a study with the goal of finding out how Millennials, or people born in the 1980s, would design and manage a company. The results of the study provide insight into the minds of young people today, and how our companies will be run in the near future. 

The study took two groups of Millennials, one in the U.S. and one in the U.K. and challenged them with the task of creating a model for how to run a fashion retail company, including the organizational structure, product development, and marketing aspects of the company. 

They found consistent preferences among both groups of young people. First of all, Millennials did not write in a definitive CEO to their company, but instead organized company staff into teams with expert areas of focus. However, 82 percent of the 1,000 Millennials included in the study said that it is important to have a staff that can do each others' jobs.

In addition, Millennials gave equal weight to design and creativity, as finance and management, and valued having diverse opinions when it came to decision-making. The study showed that Millennials desire continual change, and a constantly challenging environment. When it comes to company hierarchies, Millennials are not persuaded by seniority or systems of tenure, and they believe strongly that, "Authority is earned and proven through direct interactions, not given blindly based on titles and experience."

Millennials designed a company where each employee starts at the bottom level, and works their way up, so that each employee gets face to face contact with consumers.

To read more, check out their study here.

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There’s a new fashion craze on the scene. It seems as if every high school student can be spotted wearing an “I [heart] Boobies!” bracelet. They are starting to have the same effect that the “Livestrong” bracelets had in 2004. Read more...

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Going on job interviews can make us nervous enough, we should at least be able to relax when it comes to the clothes we wear.

If we're looking for work, we're usually not walking around with full pockets. So check out basics from inexpensive stores- like this shirt or these pants. If you like wearing dresses, try something simple like this. You can add a pair of dark tights to make it even more proper-style for work.

Basic, non-trendy clothes are best for interviews because they're hard to tell apart from the pricier stuff. It's not necessary to wear a fancy brand to impress your interviewer. They should remember you for what you'll contribute to their company, not because you had a giant sparkly Ed Hardy Tiger clawing it's way out of your pocket.

Try to stick with collared shirts- preferably long sleeve if you got any tats on your forearms. If you like heels, don't go for anything too high. It sucks, but sometimes people judge women a little tougher when they have sexier clothes on. Keep jewelry simple- it's better if you wear smaller earrings and few rings. And PLEASE, pretty please, pop out your grill before your interview.

We don't offer this advice because there's any PERFECT way to dress. Interview clothes can seem square sometimes, but they're not any worse or better than what we usually sport. But to keep it real, people who haven't finished high school sometimes face even extra discrimination at interviews. So we have to learn how to play the (clothes) game, so we can win.

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So the Oscars were amazing and Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were great hosts. Sadly, the dresses weren’t as great. Evidently ruffles are in now and EVERYONE is wearing them.

First up is Jennifer Lopez. I loved the color of the dress with her skin, but the style with the layers of puffed fabric coming from her hip, just made her butt look HUGE. It was like a light pink sea urchin.

Next is Zoe Saldana. I love this woman, but her dress is awful. It’s like puffs of purple that almost seem to resemble some of the plants in her latest movie Avatar. Also, the colors of the dress go from sparkling white, to a light purple waist that fails to hug in the right places, to a darker purple and then an almost blackish purple. The colors are not working for me at all and the cut is all wrong for a woman’s body.

The next dress is a dress worn by Vera Farmiga. It’s definitely one of the worst dresses so far giving that it looks like she’s wearing a deformed rose. The color I will admit is beautiful, but I only have one question -- how is she going to sit down in that thing?

So talking about roses, Charlize Theron managed to wear roses on her boobs. It's a dark pink dress, with light pink roses on her breasts than it flares out in the back to become like a short train of the lighter pink. The front actually hugs her body nicely. The roses just throw the whole thing off. Almost like you can’t look at her face because your so fixed on why she has roses on her chest.

Probably the worst dress was worn by Diane Kruger. It looks like birds made a nest on her body. It’s like there’s a band of feathers around her neck, waist, and then a weird ruffle thing and than another ring of feathers. The bottom of it looks kind of 1920’ish but for the most part, other than the bottom of the dress, I hate it. It’s absolutely awful and I have no idea what the designer was thinking.

So I hate Miley Cyrus with a very deep passion and her dress is only somewhat better. The top of the dress looks almost like lingerie and the strip around her waist makes her look a little pudgy but for the most part, it’s not half bad.

Now onto the good dresses…

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By: Austin De Rubira
The following was broadcast on KQED-FM.
There are eccentric people in the world, but why are they eccentric? Is eccentricity a cry for attention or a flamboyant form of expression? Lord Austin Elliott de Rubira IX reflects on the different looks he’s had over the years and analyzes why he dresses the way he does.     Read more...

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