“When I shop at Nordstrom, the store employees follow me around,” says Los Angeles makeup artist and handbag designer Allison Burns. If only those department store employees, on the look for shoplifters, knew they were tailing the head of a handbag line coveted by celebrities and now sold at Bergdorf Goodman and more than 250 boutiques worldwide. Burns started her company in 2001; at the time she had already been working in Hollywood as a makeup artist for more than a decade, and she often wore her own handcrafted accessories to work. It was client Jillian Barberie who finally convinced her to sell the bags. The company took off after ...
"Landlord's a cheap bastard," says singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle, gesturing toward the dripping faucet in his kitchen. It's par for the course here in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. And given the arctic conditions outside, things could be worse: A sheet of paper taped above the mailboxes in Earle's building's entryway announces "1/9 BOILER BROKEN!!!" Fortunately, today is not January 9. Amazon.com Widgets "I've lived in neighborhoods like this all my life," Earle says. He's seen a lot in his 27 years, as we're about to find out. Crown Heights is a piece of cake. We'll get it out of the way now: Justin Townes Earle is the son of country maverick ...
Mixed martial arts has become the defining sport of the 21st century, and with it comes a new style of fighter—smart, athletic, and more often than not, covered in ink. Here, a look behind the scenes of the sports’ largest promotion, the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Punching someone in the face just doesn’t cut it anymore. Where boxers only use their fists, the dominant fighters of the 21st century also kick, knee, trip, and wrestle—anything legal to secure victory. Mixed mar tial arts and its most popular promotion, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, are undergoing a furious ascent into the mainstream. The gloves are smaller, and the action is faster and harder-hitting, but ... Feature
Actor Eddie Steeples’ tattoos tell his life story— and as far as we can tell, it’s going to be a comedy. Writers’ strike or not, a hit comedy on NBC is doing Eddie Steeples pretty well. Or so it would seem for the My Name Is Earl star, who is nearly impossible to track down. When I finally get him on the phone, he’s chilling in Hawaii. “I just really needed to get away for a minute, real last minute. So I figured okay, Hawaii,” Steeples explains, after apologizing profusely for his elusiveness. It seems the Texas-born, Missouri-raised actor hasn’t lost his manners since moving to Los Angeles. No doubt ...
Rashad McCants played possessed. In high school, he ripped through the competition, earning state MVP honors in New Hampshire while taking his team to the state championship. College was no different. At Air Jordan’s alma mater, University of North Carolina, McCants scorched opposing defenses with his silky smooth skills, earning All-Conference and second team All-American status as a sophomore while leading his storied conference in scoring; he went on to help the Tar Heels cut down the nets as the 2005 NCAAnational champions. The 6’4” guard also became one of the most controversial college basketball players in history. The press latched on to McCant’s lone wolf personality and his inflammatory ...
Years from now, when nursing homes fill with tattooed and grommet ed punks pushing 70, Kearney Nick Jones, now known as Nick 13, the singer/guitarist of psychobilly juggernaut Tiger Army, won’t have any regrets. “If I were a guy sitting in my bed in a nursing home, I would rather have sleeves, even if they’re incredibly faded and blurred, than be the guy sitting next to me that has no tattoos,” says Nick 13. “I think there would be more respect and affection from the staff because it’s evidence that you’ve actually lived a real life.” If ink in the skin is emblematic of a real life, then Nick 13 wanted ...
It’s freezing in Boston, but Sandy Poirier pays the cold weather no mind—he’s sporting his typical uniform. “If I die, I want to be buried in a rock and roll T-shirt, tight jeans, Chrome Hearts jewelry, and sneakas,” he says, with a voice that sounds like a scratched-up recording of John F. Kennedy. At first glance, the owner of South Boston’s Shag Salon is slightly intimidating, that is until he picks up a glass of champagne, which softens his image a bit. “Girls think it’s a sexy drink,” he explains. But Poirier doesn’t drink often, and he doesn’t smoke, though his Tommy Lee-on-a-Harley look suggests otherwise. Oddly, the self-proclaimed “Rockstar ...
As different industries continue to embrace tattoos, the importance of pre serving the integrity of the culture has never been more important. That’s where Todd Burnes and Olivia Miner, of Canvas Los Angeles, come in. Originally conceived as a modest boutique, Canvas Los Angeles quickly expanded into a 4,000-square-foot store and gallery showcasing the cloth ing designs and fine art of the world’s most legendary needle artists. “The original vision, which remains the current vision, [was a] place to fully appre ciate what tattoo artists are capable of outside tattooing itself.” Not a tattoo shop, but an innovative fine-art gallery and retail store exhibiting the non-skin-based work of tattoo masters worldwide. “Tattooing is ...
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