Schreiber 'Giddy' in Drag

It's an issue of workplace safety, say top catwalkers

(NEWSER) - Three top models are refusing to teeter on limb-threatening 12-inch spike heels in catwalk shows. The models refused to appear in Alexander McQueen's latest show because of his impossible-to-wear "armadillo" shoes and "workplace safety" concerns. A British shoe designer sympathized with the models. "It'd be like walking on a ruler," she said. "That's the opposite of what people want to look like." More»

Men's, women's, who cares? young dressers tell market

(NEWSER) - Call it the new cross-dressing: Young fashionistas are exhibiting a willful disregard for whether items of clothing are “men’s” or “women’s,” mixing and matching what works for them into an androgynous personal statement. So while one young clotheshorse allows he might not don a skirt, “a long drapey shirt with really tight pants” is fine, he tells the New York Times . And the trend has percolated up to runway fashion, where one retailer says that “the more successful designers are the ones that try to bridge the gap between the sexes.” More»

From Tootsie to Hedwig, Liev joins an illustrious list

(NEWSER) - Liev Schreiber was “giddy” playing an ex-Marine transvestite in Taking Woodstock, and in his honor, Nerve lists the best cross-dressers in film history:

• John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch: He "is the epitome of ferocity and theatricality that drag queens around the world aspire to.”
• Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie: “Who knew Hoffman could work a sequined gown?”

Mixed reviews for 1960s coming-of-age flick

(NEWSER) - Taking Woodstock isn’t really about the music: it’s more about coming of age on the outskirts of the festival. Critics are lukewarm about Ang Lee's latest effort:

• “You can’t deny the smiling mood that wafts through the film like incense,” admits Anthony Lane of the New Yorker, “and to that extent it honors the original three days; but not once does a character’s show of feeling stir you, send you, or stop you in your tracks.”

Plus, white bucks are back and heels are lowered

(NEWSER) - Veganism isn’t just for food anymore. “Times have never been better for vegan fashion,” a PETA spokesperson says. “Vegan apparel and accessories companies are sprouting up everywhere in the US.” The Wall Street Journal tried out three pairs of vegan shoes and determined that synthetic materials no longer have to look fake or cheap. In other footwear breakthroughs: More»