Hey, Have You Heard of These MisShapes Kids?

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Jessica

09/14/06 08:55AM

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It's Fashion Week, so Thursgay Styles has plenty of ground to cover: the "cascading" spring styles, seating at the shows, the sweater-jacket as a fall staple...and the MisShapes. Really? The MisShapes? How fascinating! Who are these downtown darlings you speak of?

Oh, we're kidding. OF COURSE WE KNOW WHO THE FUCK THEY ARE. Was their presence in the Sunday Styles investigation into rose-fucking-ay not enough? Was Cathy Horyn not satisfied to simply take Princess Coldstare, put her in balloon sleeves and compare her to Edie Sedgwick? We're flabbergasted. MisShapes? In Styles? Really? Again?* What could they possibly tell us that we don't already know?!

"Gawker has been saying there's a backlash for more than two years," Mr. [Geordon "Leotard Fantastic"] Nicol said.

No, no, Leo-Fan. We have been wishing for a backlash for more than two years. Just wishing. Your fabulosity is our dream deferred. But hey, someone's gotta play the music for Tory Burch.

Cool, at Least for a Few Minutes [NYT]

*This "article" marks the 10th MisShapes appearance in just under one year. Happy anniversary, you haute whores!

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Cloaked Jessica 09/15/06 03:48PM

Oh God... So, not living in New York (at least, not yet), and visiting there recently, I finally attended my first MisShapes party. Um, so, I feel I've clearly missed something. I mean, sure... Their online presence is a force to be reckoned with...and I must agree, they have a fairly innovative fashion-sense, but c'mon... The same kinds of scenesters can be found at various dive-bars and clubs across the country...WITH BETTER MUSIC. The only reason their success has elevated is BECAUSE they live in New York. No other city has half the publicity machines constantly at work. Even Gawker has fueled the MisShapes flame by reporting their antics constantly. Eventhough the press is negative, ANY PRESS IS GOOD PRESS. Leigh, Geo, and Greg (or to Gawker readers— Princess Coldstare, Leotard Fantastic, and The Other Guy) are probably delighted with the amount of attention Gawker pays them.

TroubleonWheels Jessica 09/14/06 09:03AM

From your lips, of clem...

Time for this gruesome threesome to put away their eyeliner and turn their frowns upside-down: if they quit while they're "ahead", they can avoid the devastation and horror of being continually mentioned by Musto. They ought to hang out for 10 years or so and become icons for the next round of sullen, droopy ghouls. Perhaps they could develop some actual talent!

a lady Jessica 09/14/06 09:22AM

This is, of course, in addition to this mention from (who else?) Cathy Horyn in the Fashion Week section of the Times:

"Benjamin Cho...did not have very many guests. Though he had friends like the actors Chloë Sevigny and Max Minghella, as well as the D.J.'s Leigh Lezark and Geordon Nicol of the MisShapes, he did not have store buyers or a significant presence of editors." Thereby making himself, cf. Horyn, very clever.

Yes. Use the MisShapes to flaunt 7th Ave. You go, Benjamin Cho. You go.

zendlecrockett Jessica 09/14/06 08:39AM

Hilarious: "Yet the MisShapes are really a contemporary idea, their status derived less from any recognizable achievement, like making art, music or films, than by their celebrity on the Internet."

Read: These douchebags lack talent.

Comment: Leotard looks more and more like Juliette Lewis circa Strange Days each time I see him.