STYLE BUZZ – Cassette tapes may be out of style in the music world, but they’re making a huge comeback in fashion.Vinyl records have the market cornered for musical nostalgia, but this is the cassette tapes chance to shine. I wonder what alternative use we’ll find for iPods when they become obsolete.

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1. Cassette Tape Culture
2. New Emo Fashion Trend: Cassette Necklaces
3. Personalised Mini Cassette - Jewellery
4. BBC NEWS | 10 uses for audio cassettes
5. Cassette Tape Belt Buckles | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

STYLE BUZZ – Australian designer Alice McCall will introduce a new line for Topshop this month that’s inspired by Atari.Topshop is like a British H&M, and McCall’s last line for the chain was their best-selling ever, so this could take pixel-y fashion way beyond the occasional novelty Space Invaders scarf.

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1. Alice McCall Returns to Topshop
2. A slideshow of gaming-inspired fashion
3. Alice McCall + Atari = New Topshop

CULTURE BUZZ – A cat parody of the fashion blog the Sartorialist.Catorialist was selected as one of Cat Fancy’s Top 100 catstyle influencers.

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1. The Catorialist
2. “What would really make it spot on would be some shots of effortlessly elegant cats on bikes.”
3. The Sartorialist

CULTURE BUZZ – Try to get Bingo by spotting cliché hipster gear.Print this board out and see how long it takes you to spot PBR’s, a pair of chunky glasses, or a Jagger-esque ‘do. BuzzFeed’s personal best is 8 minutes and 38 seconds.

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1. Hipster Bingo Board #3- New!
2. Hipster Bingo Board #2 (So You Can Compete With a Friend)
3. Hipster Bingo Board #1 (Pictured)

STYLE BUZZ – An old spread from Sassy magazine unknowingly mocks America’s Next Top Model, years ahead of time.It’s funny how common these poses still are, given that they are totally ludicrous.

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1. “From an old issue of ‘Sassy’. Sigh.”

STYLE BUZZ – For some reason, there are people who think regular panties just aren’t revealing enough.So they built panties that show extra amounts of butt cleavage!

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1. Peek a Boo, I See Your Crack!
2. Do We Really Need Butt Cleavage?
3. A Wide Variety Of Butt Cleavage Panties To Choose From
4. Butt Cleavage Fashion Gallery

STYLE BUZZ – The fictional shoe worn by Marty McFly in Back to the Future is being released by Nike sometime in July.It seems someone finally told Nike that they already make this shoe and that all they need to do is give the Kobe Bryant-backed Hyperdunk a different paint job. Maybe we really are living in the future (despite the lack of flying cars, and the coveted hoverboard.)

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1. Every Appearance of a Nike Shoe in the Movie
2. The Amazing Musical Plea to Nike to Make the Shoe
3. The McFly 2015 Project
4. “Flywire Technology”
5. It May Have Been the Original Inspiration for the Hyperdunk
6. Probably Not Actually This Cool
7. A Handful of Pictures
8. Kobe Promoted the Hyperdunk in This Video Hoax
9. The Hyperdunk Was Designed With the Olympics in Mind

STYLE BUZZ – Designer Vivienne Westwood raised quite a few eyebrows by employing Roma Gypsy models during her Milan runway shows.The models were styled to look “rough, stylish and hardened” and sported gold teeth and medallions. The theme of the show was “tolerance” but Westwood has been accused of romanticizing the Roma lifestyle as well as disrespecting the traditions of Romanipen by having the men model in their underwear.

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1. “Vivienne Westwood’s ‘gypsy’ show criticised”
2. Fashion Show Spoofs - Westood’s Gypsy in McQueen’s Mankini
3. Photos of Real Gypsies As Models - Vivienne Westwood Controversial Milan Menswear Runway
4. ‘Gypsy’ show by Vivienne Westwood severely criticised
5. “Campaigning on the catwalk: why politics is the height of fashion “
6. “Real Gypsies As Models - Vivienne Westwood Controversial Milan Menswear Runway”

STYLE BUZZ – Prada, André Lima, and Shirley Mable Fernandez have been releasing a myriad of ensembles that bear uncanny resemblances to Origami classics.All the designers are attributing their inspiration to architecture and Japanese Origami. But Lima’s line isn’t merely inspired by Origami, it practically is Origami.

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1. Photos of Lima’s Dresses That Are Identical to Origami
2. André Lima’s Line: Details
3. Runway Photos from Lima’s Line
4. East Meets West in Origami Fashion
5. Prada Origami Shoes

STYLE BUZZ – Invite-Only shopping sites promise a “velvet rope” experience and exclusive deals.Is this a backlash to the egalitarian H&M ‘fashion for the masses’ movement? Can the perception of exclusivity actually increase sales?

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1. LOOKBOOK.nu: collective fashion consciousness.
2. Gilt Groupe: Luxury Brands, Hand Selected Styles, Members Only Prices
3. Totokaelo
4. CLASEO Fashion
5. ideeli
6. HauteLook.com
7. Members Only Get The Inside Scoop On Designer Deals
8. Ideeli: it’s Woot.com meets ‘The Devil Wears Prada’