Paul Smith New Line Looks Like Girls
It’s November and most people are thinking about warm sweaters and Thanksgiving turkeys, but Selectism brings us news of Paul Smith‘s vibrant youth offshoot Red Ear, a kaleidoscope of a collection that...
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This Week in The FADER: November 21, 2010 Edition
*Dre, Snoop, and Akon bragged about their “Kush” and we felt one step closer to Detox. *We talked with Kathleen Hanna about The Raincoats, building the Riot Grrrl Archive, and crying when she met...
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Christopher Owens Scored His Australia Tour Video Diary to Smashing Pumpkins
Girls lead singer Christopher Owens has taken to video diary-ing his tours on his iPod and sharing them on YouTube. This month, the band was in Australia and pretty stoked about zoos and all the … read...
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Christopher Owens Still Loves Miley Cyrus
Christopher Owens proclaimed his undying love for video log, and while the production value of his Miley ode is a little lower than some of his other “works,” it does include a lot of angsty … read more »
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Christopher Owens Leaves Girls
In an abbreviated Twitter essay this morning, beloved songwriter Christopher Owens announced he’s leaving the band Girls. 1) Dear all, This may come as a surprise to many & has been an issueof much...
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Christopher Owens Stars in New Saint Laurent Ad Campaign
Former Girls frontman Christopher Owens is the new face of Saint Laurent’s fall/winter 2013 ad campaign. This is the first image released from the Parisian fashion house since Hedi Slimane took the...
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Christopher Owens Stars in Saint Laurent Paris Campaign Video
In his efforts to overhaul the image of French fashion house Yves Saint Laurent, skinny-jeans inventor and new YSL Creative Director Hedi Slimane has been gingerly releasing images from his upcoming ad...
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Christopher Owens Announces Debut Solo Album, Lysandre
Christopher Owens, the rawboned San Francisco singer/songwriter with a far-out backstory and a modeling contract, has announced the release of his debut solo album, completed just months after leaving...
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Live: Christopher Owens at Le Poisson Rouge
It seemed just yesterday all anybody could think about was Rihanna’s much hullabalooed appropriation of an open-sourced internet aesthetic for her recent SNL performance, which brought up so many...
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World Premiere! The FADER #83 Featuring Christopher Owens and Miguel
For the two gentlemen on the cover of our new Now Issue, our annual look at what’s super important in the moment, it’s been a year of rebirth: free from a bad record label deal, … read more »
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Christopher Owens: Christopher’s Theme
The former Girls frontman sets out on his own. On the morning of July 2, 2012, Christopher Owens rose with the sun. His mind was restless, he had slept poorly and the room at his … read more »
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Footnotes: Christopher Owens
Footnotes is the section in our magazine where we take a deeper look at the music surrounding our feature artists. Read Caroline McCloskey’s FADER #83 cover feature on Christopher Owens, and check out...
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Interview: Christopher Owens
The day after Christopher Owens performed in New York City for the first time as a solo artist, he stopped by our office to talk about the experience of coming out on his own. He … read more »
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My sophomore year of college, I took a fiction writing workshop, which meant that each class all the students would evaluate two or three of our peers’ stories. The stories, mine included, were not...
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Stream: Melted Toys, “Always”
This month, Ex-Girls frontman and FADER cover star Christopher Owens is touring in support of his new solo full-length, Lysandre, and he’s picked fellow San Francisco-based three-piece Melted Toys to...
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By The Numbers: Christopher Owens’ Lysandre
In By The Numbers, FADER looks at a big record release and breaks it down in basic digits. This week, we tackle Christopher Owens’ solo debut Lysandre, chronicled in Caroline McCloskey’s FADER #83...
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Video: Christopher Owens, “Here We Go Again”
Former Girls frontman Christopher Owens now has a video for the upbeat “Here We Go Again,” from his solo album Lysandre, directed by Ryan Owen Eddleston. The video is fairly straightforward and recalls...
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Download Christopher Owens’ Acoustic Lysandre LP
Christopher Owens has released a free acoustic version of his first solo album, January’s Lysandre, on his website. He’s also announced a string of summer US tour dates, where he’ll “play songs...
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Stream: Christopher Owens, “It Comes Back To You”
Former Girls member Christopher Owens just tweeted a link to a new song, his first since last January’s solo debut Lysandre, with a sweet, sincere missive: “Here’s a song from a new album I’ve made …...
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Watch Girls Play an Acoustic Version “Summertime”
Here at the FADER office, we just had to crack open a window to warm up the frozen office. With tomorrow being the longest day of the year and the first day of summer, it … read more »
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Christopher Owens Heralds A New Testament with School Dance Clip for “Nothing...
Over the past few months, former Girls frontman Christopher Owens has been teasing his sophomore solo LP with a couple of unassuming singles posted to his Soundcloud account. After sharing the lilting...
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