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Reverse Rustication

Rustic is a big band at the moment. They won the top title in the Global Battle of the Bands for China, just held in Hong Kong.

This is Ricky, the bassist. He is from Shijiazhuang, Hebei. Just before he took this photo, Ricky was pissing on the hutong wall. He was on his way to getting a tattoo of his girlfriend’s face put on his back. He describes her as “rich”. He himself lives with four others in a flat in Tongzhou, where each roommate pays RMB 400.

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Ataturk/Mao and Napoleon

At Band of Outsiders with Scott Schuman is Jeffrey Ying, an old associate of mine who appeared here in the same Mao suit. Jeffrey was featured on this extremely refined nyc blog. He seems more notable than most others on the blog.

Here is the Band of Outsiders women’s collection at Style.com. I can’t seem to find the men’s, but the reworked preppy classics were the most wearable and least conceptual stuff I have yet seen at fashion week.

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An EIC

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Duan Yanling is Editor-in-Chief of design magazine Case da Abitare and Atcasa.cn, an online design channel in collaboration with sina.com. She was also hosted CCTV 9 (English) program Travelogue. She graduated from Stockholm University and completed advanced study at Pace University in NYC.

段妍玲是《居Case da Abitare》和新浪ATCASA设计频道主编，旅游卫视全球创意发现节目《创意生活》的设计行策划、撰稿兼主持，原CCTV9《旅游指南》英语节目主持人。她毕业于斯德哥尔摩大学，后在纽约佩斯大学深造国际广告研究生课程。

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Uggly Cuties

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I have a whole set of rules that make it easier for me to know what not to photograph. Most people can be crossed-off without further thought because they have committed some kind of unpardonable offense. Beyond the obvious sins like large logos and monogram handbags, Ugg boots – generally fake in Beijing – and puffy coats generally guarantee exclusion from these rarefied parts. Still, these two students from the Northeast had cuteness, which tends to get you somewhere in life.

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Rarefied

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Probably best known by foreigners at least for its appearance in 希望（xiwang – to wish/hope for), the character 希 means “rare” or “infrequent”.

看到这个字外国人肯定会马上想到“希望”。

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In a Sea of Gray

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She rather humbly described this combination as “mix and match”, but I am always happy to see bright colors in the see of black and gray puffer coats.

她很谦虚地把自己风格形容为“混搭”但冬天每次看到这么多颜色我就很开心-还是比我最讨厌的黑色羽绒服好。

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The Blues

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The shades lighter than navy should appear more, especially in coats. It brightens the mood in a winter landscape, too often dominated by black and gray, especially in horrible puffer coats.

Blue coats always make me think of Julien Sorel, the protagonist in the Red and the Black. He was given one by his patron, the marquis, and this enabled him to feel on a level with the aristocrats whom he was attempting to impress. Of course, I would think that the coat in that case was a dress garment and not an outdoor coat.

我希望大家会穿更多这各蓝色的外套。北京冬天超难看的黑色羽绒服太多了。

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Only the Lonely

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Milk@Coffee lead singer Kiki, last mentioned here for designing a dress, is very accomplished. She has come out with several albums and now even a book about herself. Her style of music is rather cheerful and poppy, but seems to deal with the subjects of loneliness and being by herself – one of her biggest hits is called “Accustomed to Loneliness”. Something about her that doesn’t meet the eye must be repelling everyone.

牛奶咖啡组合的主唱 KiKi(富妍) 是个活泼漂亮，多才多艺，自信而且有品位的女孩。她不仅出过好几张专辑，而且最近还出了一本关于自己的书。我想问她为什么她的第二张专辑要叫《越长大，越孤单》，还有她最流行的一个作品要叫《习惯了寂寞》。是不是所有的中国pop都必须有这样浪漫的名字？

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Cao Difei – 曹涤非

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My parents rarely allowed television in the home. I didn’t become accustomed to its presence, so I am rarely bothered that the set in my Beijing hutong home gets no signal. An unfortunate result, however, is that I have not seen Cao Difei hosting on Beijing Television (BTV). I had run into him several times without realizing that he was a bit famous. Cao Difei grew up in a hutong in Beijing and has been at BTV since 2001. More on him later.

我在北京的家里有电视机但没有联络。其实我小时候也没有因为我父母怕电视太容易上瘾的，所以现在没电视也不会觉得很辛苦。但因为没有我的生活就缺乏了一个很重要的主持人。其实我碰到他几次都不知道曹涤非是个名人，只知道他是个比较注重“穿”的男人。中国传媒大学毕业的曹涤非在四合院长大,０１年进入了北京电视台。他是《星夜故事秀》主持人但也主持过我们美国MTV的音乐电视台．他是个很活泼善良的比较喜欢玩笑的人-应该他在电视上做主持人的时候个性差不多，但我到现在还没看到他的电视节目。希望莫格有电视的朋友可以请我来他们家看看。