FASHION Magazine

Word: Emo-hop

Meaning: If you guessed that it’s “hip-hop with emo(tional) lyrics,” you don’t get a prize.

Usage: “Drake has raised his game significantly, cornering the market in emo-hop. There’s few ‘hands in the air’ moments, but instead there’s depth and intelligence here that makes him stand out from the crowd.” — NME.com

Jay-Z’s not getting much love today, after his clothing line Rocawear came out with a T-shirt using the ubiquitous Occupy Wall Street slogan for another message: Occupy All Streets. While the message of the T-shirt is similar to the original—and we’re thinking that he had good intentions in wanting to give the Occupy movement more attention—the T-shirt is rubbing people the wrong way.

Rocawear using OWS, a worldwide protest with many supporters and even more onlookers, is not necessarily the issue—and we’re not totally surprised that Jay (the businessman that he is) would try to profit from the protests. But the company has no plans to give any of the money made from the T-shirt to support the movement that it’s riffing. No matter what his intentions were, pocketing the profits without giving back is a controversial decision for the brand to make.

S-S-S-S, M-M-M… Alexander Wang seems to be taking a few cues from Rihanna with a new cage installation in his SoHo store.

Show: Alexander McQueen—and I wasn’t even present. Too sick that night to crawl from bed, I—and thousands upon thousands of other obsessives—watched McQ’s first live-to-air catwalk on ShowStudio.com. Even from afar, I was spun in, so totally entranced by his entire underworld of alien warrior princesses. (And those shoes! The most wondrously physics-defying footwear since Theyskens’ heelless hooves for Nina Ricci. Which was just last season…but still.) Magnificent in scope, meticulous in execution, it was a show to write home about. Unless you were already there.