Be Friends: Joanna Newsom and Mister Mort
- story Peter Macia
When you’re friends with two people who don’t know each other sometimes you just assume they have met but didn’t quite make the connection, like all it will take is a bro connect sponsored by you and the triumvirate will be complete. At least this was our reaction when Mister Mort put up a photo of Joanna Newsom wearing a killer trench and perfectly coordinated shoes and Starbucks cup on his street style blog and didn’t seem to know it was her until a commenter told him so. It is also clear by the bewildered look in her eyes that she doesn’t know him. Dudes! Be pals! This could be a totally insane partnership on many levels of detailing and anachronistic life choices. Hit us up for the intro.
Style Eye Candy at Backyard Bill’s
- story Siri Thorson
Of the millions of paparazzi-esque street style blogs on rotation in our RSS feed, photographer William Gentle aka Backyard Bill stands out as a man who likes to take his time. He hones in on just one smartly dressed guy or girl at a time, snapping them in pieces from their own wardrobe, on their own turf, and leaving each of his subjects with a beautifully executed fashion shoot of their very own. To top it off, each one of Bill’s pretty young things fills out a charmingly concise questionnaire. We’ve been hooked for a minute now, and recently Bill got familiar with extended FADER fam Mister Mort, resulting in an explosion of polka dot bowties, technicolored plaids—and the hats, oh the hats!
On The Street: Mister Mort in Vegas
- story Chioma Nnadi
We’d barely hit the 24-hour mark here at the fashion tradeshows in Vegas, when our search for the best-dressed man in Sin City came to an abrupt end. Mister Mort might well have been out until the wee hours of the morning, subsisting on casino-generated oxygen and top shelf liquor, but he still manages to dazzle come Monday morning with a desert suit of Lawrence of Arabia proportions. Look closely and you’ll notice the psychedelic bowtie (there are only 10 of these Mister Mort designed pieces on the planet right now), that gives a little hippie twist on his spiffy.
