KOSHi Luvs... The Face Hunter

Yvan Rodic is the Face Hunter, the globe-trotting, Canon G10-wielding photographer routinely stationed on the pavement outside fashion's runways & beyond, where he finds not only his inspiration but that of the legion of devotees tuning in to Face Hunter for their customary dose of street style.

Here is a rare glimpse of Rodic in front of the camera (nice shoes!), as featured in the November issue of Elle - Russia...


And here are some of my recent Eye Candy For The Style Hungry faves, followed by an excerpt of a tidy lil interview Rodic just did with Dazed Digital...







DD: How long have you been the Face Hunter?
Yvan Rodic: Three and a half years.

DD: Are you sick of taking photos yet?
Yvan Rodic: I could never get sick of it. It changes every day.

DD: What do you think of all the fashion blogs saturating the net?
Yvan Rodic: I think it’s great that anybody who has access to the internet can use it as a medium to express their thoughts and opinions. It doesn’t matter whether you are a young fashion-enthusiast, Susie Lau, Bryan Boy or even a 13 year-old girl who has a great knowledge of the fashion world.

DD: What is your opinion on the The Sartorialist? Do you draw similarities between your respective works?
Yvan Rodic: His style is very classic but too businessy for my taste. The subjects of his photos are often editors walking into a fashion show who are wearing very expensive outfits. Whereas I take photos of the people standing outside the show whose outfits weren’t necessarily created by a high-end designer. Often we are at exactly the same shows but we interpret them differently because we are interested in completely different subjects.

DD: Do you let people see the photos once you take them?
Yvan Rodic: Yes

DD: Do people ever say no?
Yvan Rodic: Of course. But people are always going to say ‘no’, no matter what you are doing.

DD: Would you get involved in projects solely to further yourself?
Yvan Rodic: Yes. Working with well known companies opens a lot of doors and allows you to do your own projects further down the line.

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Creamy Goodness -xo (Dazed & Confused Editorial)

Source: Dazed & Confused via Knight Cat

Right Now I'm Really Into... (Part 1)

1. The Ten Most Provocative Ads. (Fashion Indie)

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2. Arturo Alonso and his company, Gullwing America, updating the Mercedes-Benz 300SL for today's modern car junkie. (The Cool Hunter)


3. Marina And The Diamonds video for Mowgli's Road. The song is cuckoo, and I love when a cool, artsy chick meets a weird visual effect. (MATD MySpace)


4. Stockyard Oatmeal Stout, a dark beer with an amazing chocolate-coffee flavor that is not too sweet and is as unreasonably addictive as you'd imagine a drink packing the triple-threat-wallop of beer-coffee-chocolate might be. Did I mention it's cheap? And readily available at your nearest Trader Joe's? Two Big Bonus Points, if I'm keeping score. (Trader Joe's)


5. The Perlaki Marton shots of Eniko Mihalik rocking her birthday suit for The Room Magazine #10. (Fashion Copious)


6. Collaged Walls. (Apartment Therapy)


7. Lady Gaga's collaboration with filmmaker, Kathryn Ferguson, for Dazed Digital. (Dazed Digital)


8. Loving Frank : A Novel by Nancy Horan. It's the perfect read to snuggle under the covers with this fall. And you may initially pick it up out of a love for or curiosity about Frank Lloyd Wright, but, I promise, if you read through to the end, you will put it down loving Mamah Borthwick Cheney. (Amazon.com)


9. Refinery 29's pretty two page spread on the new vintage-inspired lingerie trend. (Refinery 29)


10. Kirna Zabete. Okay- before you get too excited, I just want to warn you that if you're like 90% of most people, you can not afford to buy the items you are about to see if you follow this lead (like the bitching deco cuff pictured below, or a Rick Owens' shearling jacket, a Lanvin choker, or the kickiest lil embroidered dress by Jason Wu), so the less masochistic among you might want to refrain from clicking thru. However, if you are lucky enough to be counted among the other 10% who can afford to buy something (BiG CONGRATS!) or if you are among those of us self-injurious fashion wannabes, regularly torturing ourselves over images of beautiful things that we can not afford, then, by all means, CLiCK HERE... (Kirna Zabete)


11. A crinkled brushed twill jacket from Forever 21 that, at $27.80, seriously dampens the fire in my belly that ignited after I stared into the Kirna Zabete vortex of hell for a second too long. (Forever 21)


12. Eastwick. Yes, that Eastwick, the cheesy ABC show that is currently making a mockery of John Updike's classic novel, The Witches Of Eastwick, and looks like a low rent knock off when pitted against the winning combination of Nicholson, Pfieffer, Sarandon, and, well, Cher's star power that brought the book to life on the big screen back in 1987. I know. I know! I'm not suppose to like it. But I do. It's my weekly witchy treat. Okay? Am I not allowed one teensy guilty pleasure?


"I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought."
-Janis Joplin