Stealing inspiration from Paris Vogue, zine culture, Chuck Klosterman
and Sassy's "What Now" column, NOGOODFORME.COM flaunts
its perpetual pop-culture crush by covering a quirky-minded mix of fashion,
music, film, art, beauty and whatever else strikes our fancy. One of the
web's longest-running fashion blogs, NOGOODFORME.COM was started
back in 2003 by Kat as a way to document her style
vices and fixations (thus the name), then took on the task of scouting
out style genius all throughout the pop landscape. Since the addition
of
co-conspirators Liz in 2006 and then Laura
in 2007, NOGOODFORME.COM has evolved into an ever-changing mixtape/inspiration
board/scrapbook/mash note of the finest and foxiest things in life:
clothes, boys, girls, mascara, songs, shoes, books, people-watching,
photography, YouTube, shopping, movies, bands, dreams and epic, endless
love.
With open hearts, wide eyes and the occasional smart-ass remark, NOGOODFORME.COM
loves brilliant libertines, old souls, imaginary friends, minor planets
and all that is good and true in the world. NOGOODFORME.COM loves
you!
Love and rockets, xo Kat, Liz and Laura
GREATEST HITS: A FEW OF OUR
FAVORITE ENTRIES
A nice little cross-section of entries (out of about a thousand so far!)
that we think represent us best.
Kat
Asharya
Founder/Editorial Director
Bringer of Darkness
Is into those who are
soft-spoken, warm-hearted and hot-blooded. A Midwestern girl with
a love of horses, Cheap Trick and thunderstorms to show for it,
she still has a fixation on the Parisian imaginary and retro-futuristic
science fiction which sartorially manifests itself as an enduring
love of Balenciaga. Her favorite childhood book was The Little
Prince; her favorite record as a teenager was Rid of Me;
and her favorite movie as an adult is NOVA's "The
Elegant Universe" series starring her favorite nerd-crush,
astrophysicist Brian Greene. She attended Duke University and currently
lives in NYC, where she does all sorts of crazy and fun freelance
work in web design, writing and film. She also currently attends
Columbia University's MFA Film program as as a director and screenwriter,
where she misses her guitar, subsists on a diet based on (totally
gross) vending machine food
and gathers notes for a book idea called "Insomnia: Making
It Work For You." Her films and videos have played at places
such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she has written for
Jane, Shop Etc., and many, many others.
Child of the northeast
who moved to Los Angeles mostly because she'd always really liked
Jane's Addiction. Inordinately proud of herself for having had a
photo of Sofia Coppola stuck to her bedroom wall in 1993 (also in
1993: saw Nirvana, wore tights with cutoff jeans and used combat
boots very often); now has photos of Mick Jagger and Mary Timony
stuck to her home-office wall. Earns her dough writing about straw-bale
architecture and spa travel for various lifestyle magazines, then
blows it all on vintage Bones Brigade t-shirts and day trips up
the PCH to the site of her as-yet-incomplete first novel.
Laura
Faulds
Contributing Editor
Secret Weapon
Laura Jane Faulds is
a multi-disciplinary artist and writer based out of Toronto, by
way of New York and Montreal. She is categorically impossible to
categorize, with myriad exploits ranging from fiction, music (her
band Ver Sacrum), zines, DJing, conceptual art, graphic design,
and pretty much everything else, besides sleeping. She hates sleeping.
Laura provides the nogoodforme team with a taste for irreverent
fashion iconicity, English whimsy, vegan baked goods, hallucinatory
prose stylings, encyclopedic knowledge of everything that happened
between the years 1965 and 1968, and a profound allegiance to the
non-norm. Stylewise, LJ is the Universe's foremost expert on scrappiness,
an unidyllic ideal inspired by busted knees, three-legged mutts,
and charming mistakes and fumbles. Musically, she subsists on a
steady diet of Beatles obscurities, gritty sixties pre-punk, and
all forms of psychedelia (whether utterly lysergic or totally bubblegum).
The nogoodforme reader has come to expect from Laura fashion capers,
literary and cultural bombshells, style epiphanies hidden in plain
sight, melodies too catchy to stay forgotten, and most of all, an
infectious and pervasive sense of fun.
OTHER CONTRIBUTORS
Hallie Faben, Recipe Developer: An Official Angeleno who's just
celebrated her 6th year in this starry-eyed town, Hallie likes to think
of the smog as a "bewitching desert mist." She grew up in California,
living at one time or another in San Diego by the beach, Humboldt in the
redwoods, and in the Central and North Valleys where they grow the most
amazing food in the world. A film and television editor by day, she's
a food scientist and taste-sensationalist by night and weekend. Inspired
equally by the romance of M.F.K Fisher and logic of Harold McGee, Hallie
lives to eat.
Jane, Contributing Editor:
Born in Southern California, and raised in Southern Oregon. As a young
child refused to wear jeans, preferring frilly dresses. First introduced
to sex, drugs and rock n' roll in grade school, via her older sister's
Sassy magazines, then graduated to Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, which she
studiously pored over in the early to mid '90s. Discovered the existence
of college/alternative/indie rock and has since been obsessed with the
many different secret worlds that music can create, particularly in one's
closet. Despite this interest, generally tends to wear the same get-up
for days on end and rotating weekly, especially after moving to New York.
Currently resides in Red Hook, land of imagined tumbleweeds and authentic-looking
handlebar mustaches.