what did thom browne make for nyfw?

public pools remain the hottest trend of 2016.

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the ringer takes a stab at covering the nashville hot chicken trend and offers a fairly in-depth history.

thx phil!

speaking of podcast trends

melissa thinks you should read the first ever on the record interview with jay from serial.

trend alert : GEENA DAVIS

she's a new grey's anatomy character now JICYWW!!

trend alert : harper lee

did you guys watch last nights RHoNYC reunion (part 2)?

harper lee was discussed.

trend alert?

with the 9th annual international cornhole cup rapidly approaching (june 14, jicyww), i've been brushing up on what the kids are listening to, and i noticed a thing.


this is a new song by jeremih featuring YG, which i shared with you as a potential song of the summer. it features a (pretty loose) sample from 90's clurb anthem "rhythm is a dancer".




this is a new song by kid ink featuring chris brown, and i noticed it sounded pretty much exactly the same. the sample in this one is from the 90's clurb anthem "show me love" by robin s.


the answer to this riddle is that both tracks were produced by some guy named dj mustard, who is clearly phoning it in. you can recognize him by his "mustard on tha beat" calling card. i guess it's not really a trend if it's just one guy repeating the same formula. i hope it catches on though because i'm enjoying the aesthetic.

on a side note: what are the odds that two songs called "show me love" would be released in the same year by people named robin / robyn?


UPDATE: ugh here's another song that sounds exactly the same.


come on, dj mustard.

this is something

'B-stylers' Are Japanese Teens Who Want to Be Black http://t.co/nrjGjSA6ch pic.twitter.com/s2dqbIjg8W

— VICE (@VICE) April 9, 2014

get with the nytimes

guess who woke the fuck up and realized there is a trend happening. the new york times, of course.

Normcore (noun) 1. A fashion movement, c. 2014, in which scruffy young urbanites swear off the tired street-style clichés of the last decade — skinny jeans, wallet chains, flannel shirts — in favor of a less-ironic (but still pretty ironic) embrace of bland, suburban anti-fashion attire. (See Jeans, mom. Sneakers, white.)

2. A sociocultural concept, c. 2013, having nothing to do with fashion, that concerns hipster types learning to get over themselves, sometimes even enough to enjoy mainstream pleasures like football along with the rest of the crowd.

3. An Internet meme that turned into a massive in-joke that the news media keeps falling for. (See below). (via)

are you describing yourself, new york times?

trend alert - abandoned bunnies

apparently nyc has an abandoned bunny problem. more bunny rabbits than ever are being left in our parks and streets, but they cant survive out there!
via

Domestic bunnies are vulnerable to whims of weather, predators and people — doomed to die if they aren’t quickly saved.

The rabbits “usually look clueless, confused,” said Sean Casey, head of the nonprofit rescue group Sean Casey Animal Rescue, Inc. in Kensington, where Prospect Park, Sunset Park and the bucolic Poly Prep Country Day School are popular bunny-dumping grounds.

i don't care if it's passe already...

i want to "whale" this weekend.

trend alert : normcore

this is important.

Jeremy Lewis, the founder/editor of Garmento and a freelance stylist and fashion writer, calls normcore “one facet of a growing anti-fashion sentiment.” His personal style is (in the words of Andre Walker, a designer Lewis featured in the magazine’s last issue) “exhaustingly plain”—this winter, that’s meant a North Face fleece, khakis, and New Balances. Lewis says his “look of nothing” is about absolving oneself from fashion, “lest it mark you as a mindless sheep.” (via)

trend alert!

the hot new iphone game of the moment is QuizUp!

download it and link it to your fb and challenege me!

tReNd aLeRt!

i just wanted to make you aware of a hot new trend in hip hop: ma$e references. allow me to demonstrate.


here is a song on drake's new album, called "worst behavior". skip ahead to about 2:30, and you'll hear his adaptation of a ma$e verse.


here it is, the first verse of notorious b.i.g.'s "mo money mo problems.


this morning, i was perusing the new pusha t album (thx djv), and i was all "ooh a song with kelly rowland....play!" i was real surprised to find that ma$e was also on the song, but it turns out its just pusha t doing a ma$e impression. skip to 1:25 to hear his take on...


...ma$e's classic "what you want" (skip to 1:35).


and just for good measure, you might remember kanye's ma$e reference on "cold" a couple years back, borrowing the opening line from...


... "lookin' at me".

there you have it. ma$e = still hot in 2013! celebrate your friday with harlem world!

wililamsburg is the new wililamsburg

TREND ALERT!

i'm writing this trend piece about the trend i've caught onto of various new york-based blogs writing angry backlash pieces about trend pieces written about williamsburg. CONSIDER THIS TREND PIECE BACKLASH TREND COVERED.

you heard it here first. williamsburg is the new williamsburg. now and forever.

trend alert : #teamdeblasio

get caught up with 2Pz favorite mayoral candidate, bill de blasio, and his rise to the top of the polls. #brickbybrick

read this front page new york times profile and this huffington post profile.

then watch christine quinn and anthony weiner throw shade at each other during last night's debate.

trend alert: Bill De Blasio

people are starting to notice that 2pz called this election months ago.

2Pz trendsetters trend piece : the five fund

i was just listening to the latest episode of all songs considered, and steven told me about a thing he does called "the five fund". here's what you do:

every time you get a $5 bill, you put it in a coffee can (or whatever) for saving. when i told joel about it, he asked "then what?", to which i replied "wait for a rainy day!!"

i'm going to try this, and you should too. let's talk in december and see how much money we're swimming in.

2Pz trendsetters trend piece : candy crush saga

or as it is called, adorably, by thomas wilhelm: CANDY CRUNCH.

candy crunch is this summer's hottest trend, and if you're not playing it, then you are a complete nobody. please read this informative piece about its development and inner workings. here are some highlights:

"Sometimes I just go into the bathroom and sit on the seat and play," a colleague confessed, describing some quality in-office downtime. "I don't tell many people that . . ."

When it comes to the sound effects, we have a fun story there—you know the "Delicious" the voice [that happens when a player is on a hot streak or wins the game]? Originally it was a funny French accent, but that wasn't appreciated, so we changed it and we did kind of a petition on the website to have different people trying it and found this rather deep voice that felt really good in the concept.

We try to make sure from the beginning with Candy Crush that you should be able to complete the game without having to pay. Of the people on the last level (currently level 385) 70% of those players haven't paid to get there.

In Hong Kong, one of every seven people in the country plays the game on the daily basis.

an assignment for all dog-owning 2Pz readers.

put pantyhose on your dog. it's all the rage in china, and that place isn't fucked up at all.

nytimes trend alert

hey, owls are a thing. NEW TREND ALERT, owls.

     In the Western imagination, the owl surely vies with the penguin for the position of My Favorite Bird. “Everyone loves owls,” said David J. Bohaska, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, who discovered one of the earliest owl fossils. “Even mammalogists love owls.” 
     Owls are a staple of children’s books and cultural kitsch — here wooing pussycats in pea-green boats and delivering mail to the Harry Potter crew, there raising a dubiously Wise eyebrow in the service of snack food. Yet for all this apparent familiarity, only lately have scientists begun to understand the birds in any detail, and to puzzle out the subtleties of behavior, biology and sensory prowess that set them apart from all other avian tribes.