The editors of Dazed & Confused are obsessed with blogs, so much so that they’ve set up their own blog awards with G-Star to honor the most prolific, most eloquent and most beautiful blogs in fashion, music, photography and arts & culture.

There are fifteen blogs in each category and the winner walks away with £500 of G-star product and more importantly, a feature in the October issue of Dazed.

Who made the fashion list? One of our favorite blogs to look at, Jak&Jil, and Sabine Pieper whose illustrations we’re kind of obsessed with. Also on there is The Business of Fashion, an intellectual look at the business side of the industry that even the creatives can understand and our choice alternative to the business section of our newspaper.

Voting’s open until August 31st so start clicking.

Rankin’s set to launch a double exhibition at the Old Truman Brewery on London’s Brick Lane at the end of the month.

Part one will cover the photographer’s epic history, running the gamut from personal projects to political and celebrity portraits and everything he’s dabbled in in between, including hopefully some of his original work for Dazed & Confused (which he co-founded with Jefferson Hack).

The second part of the show is a kind of brilliant commentary on the nature of celebrity these days. He’ll cast 1000 people - total unkowns - based on their style, personality, whatever and string them through hair and makeup to the front of the camera to the actual exhibition wall in fifteen minutes to “comment…on the glamorisation of public figures in an age of celebrity obsession.”

The exhibition runs from July 31st to September 18th which means we’ll be skipping out of New York at least one day early.

Magical Machines: Gareth Pugh constructed outrageous plastic masks to accompany Thierry Mugler’s cyborg outfits for Dazed & Confused’s man machine issue. {DazedDigital}

Paris Je T’aime: It’s the second annual A Shaded View on Fashion Film festival curated by Diane Pernet and hosted by Jeu de Paume and Standard Magazine. You can submit your films here. {ShadedViewOnFashion}

So Clutch: Karla Martinez sees snake and we see chains, either way, this is both chic, inexpensive and not a copy. Hurray! {TheMoment}

Just in Case: Todd Selby put it up last week, but just in case you missed the peek inside Sally Singer’s Chelsea Hotel apartment, here you go. We got stuck on the shoe picture - where’d the Nicholas Kirkwood Rodarte’s go? {TheSelby}

Sorry dudes.

Keegan doesn’t need an assistant - he loves George - but Nicola Formichetti needs a handful of interns.

Lots of them. Specifically, “girls and gays who live in New York City,” as in they know their way around the city, the subway, magazines, designers, photographers, models, clothes. You must have previous fashion/styling/editorial/PR experience.

You’ll assist on photo shoots, run errands and steam clothes with enthusiasm and a smile on your face. They need hard working, dedicated, passionate people to start now. It’s not paid and if you can’t do full time they’d like you to be on-call. Nicola works for Dazed and Confused, V Magazine, V-Man, Vogue, Bazaar, Uniqlo, Levis, Max Mara etc.

But if you didn’t know that, this probably isn’t the one for you. You can email his assistant at emilyeisen@gmail.com.

We were so busy covering the Fashion Weeks that we totally missed what Dazed Digital was up to.

They’ve launched a series of blogs on their site, featuring Fashion Week guest bloggers (Julia Roitfeld did New York and Marcelo Burlon, editor in chief of Rodeo, did Milan - the Misshapes will handle Paris) alongside the magazine’s own blogging staff, including stylist and Dazed creative director Nicola Formichetti.

Expect live information and exclusive content -

In case you didn’t already have enough to read during Paris.

(Tomorrow!)

Full disclosure: I didn’t know much about Pam Hogg before her show this afternoon except that she used to play music, that LOVE has a David Sims-shot editorial of her clothes and that hers was a really coveted ticket since it’s the first time she’s shown a proper collection in years.

But it was clear, walking into the Science Museum, that this was the show for the cool kids. And, yes, everyone even remotely related to fashion in this city looks pretty cool, so I’m referring to a whole new level of cool. Even the six-year-old boy in front of me had a guitar purse and majorly mohawked hair. The crowd, including Gareth Pugh, oohed, ahhed and cheered with the kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for Charlotte Ronson’s familial shows.

Dazed’s Fashion Editor Katie Shillingford styled the show which opened with jumpsuits: Neon jumpsuits, pastel jumpsuits, metallic jumpsuits made of latex, velvet, lace and leather before moving into more wearable dresses in the same aesthetic.

Her final pieces - a barely there dress of layers and layers of tulle, a completey sheer beribboned gown and the black lace, rhinestone encrusted goth bride dress on Alice Dellal at the end of the show - were really spectacular, especially considering she handmade all of her samples with just one other person.

Afterwards, we wondered just how much Lady Gaga’s clothing line will be inspired by Pam’s.

Donna Karan’s DKNY is coming up on its 20th birthday, and to celebrate Dazed Digital recently produced a short film styled by their fashion editor Katie Shillingford and shot by photographer Pierre Debusschere.

The film is shot in black light, making details in the model’s DKNY outfit glow, as well as her fluorescent makeup. Dazed claims the film (as well as the accompanying photo shoot for the new Dazed & Confused) is “out-of-this-world, 80s inspired” and that “the model takes on an ethereal, almost alien presence”.

This makes for pretty good visuals, but more importantly it sounds very close to the 80’s cult classic film Liquid Sky, where the main plot line revolves around a fashion model possessed by aliens, including a very memorable scene of the model applying glow-in-the-dark makeup in black light.

I consider Liquid Sky required viewing for anyone who likes their fashion a bit quirky and their films a bit obscure, so if this applies to you and you haven’t seen it, try to get your hands on it ASAP.

In the meantime, you can catch a glimpse of it here (black light face paint clip starts at about 1:20). We’re betting it’s a favorite in the Dazed offices, too.

—JULIA HERMANNS

Hedi Slimane’s just shot a rather lengthy portfolio for Dazed & Confused.

He and Nicola Formichetti, the mag’s creative director, spent four nights roaming London’s streets and recruiting the cool kids - hipsters, club kids, fashion kids, jazz kids - on a nightly basis for morning shoots. They mixed those in with the especially stylish characters they’d been keeping on the backburner for a collection of aspirational black and white photos.

“The aim was to create a definitive record of London youth right now through Hedi’s timeless style,” said Formichetti.

Dazed asked teenagers to send in their answers to the question, “What does it mean to be young and British today?” and the thirty best answers accompany the images.

For once, we wish were still a teen - and for always we wish we were British.

Britt rode the subway to work this morning, sandwiched in the middle of six strapping male models. The three from England, signed to DNA, ran into a group of three from New York, signed to Red (of course they all knew each other). They entertained her from Bedford Ave to Union Sq. with this conversation that’s too good not to share:

Model 1: Hey dude! How’s it goin’ man?

Model 2: Sweet man. I just got back from Japan.

Model 1: Sick! How was it?

Model 2: So sweet dude. I mean Japan’s awesome. You just drink all night and shoot all day. I mean, no one cares if you show up drunk as long as you’re on time. It’s all about being on time there.

Model 3: Did you see the new Japanese Dazed?

Model 4: Yeah man! We’re in it, fucking blitzed out of our minds. Can you tell? That shoot was amazing.

Model 3: Yeah dude, it’s sick. The only good magazine over there. They launched Vogue Hommes last week but they put Ash on the cover!

Model 5: Ash and Josh, dude. They’re everywhere. I was back in London and everywhere you look in the Tube it’s Josh in the Levi’s campaign. I mean, it’s like, really?

“Someone somewhere along the line decided that we need a new culture-by-way-of-fashion icon as a sort of generational figurehead. That Moss chick, well, she’s just been around a bit long now, hasn’t she? And Lily Cole, well, rather unjustly, she somehow became the visual symbol for any discussion about anorexia, so citing her as an icon of fabulous fashionability became a little bit tricky. And then, with the kind of timing that would have Dorothy Parker gasp with envy, up pops Agyness, with her misspelt fake name (Laura Hollins, since you asked), her northern accent (so that what is often referred to as “the London style press” - aka, those big magazines that have a commendable appreciation for the utterly meaningless and will include at least one black and white photo of a model standing by a dirty canal and wearing ugly shoes and a headdress from last year’s Notting Hill Carnival - can patronisingly refer to her as “real”), her frankly weird taste in clothes and her fondness for hanging out with people who live in east London. To be honest, there are times when I doubt if she’s an actual human being but rather a CGI construct from the office of Dazed & Confused” - Hadley Freeman, on the Agyness Deyn phenomenon, in the Guardian.

“Art, film and music have nothing to do with fashion asides from fashion, by necessity, having to associate itself with other art forms because it is in itself vapid and cannot stand alone.” - Julian Schnabel in Dazed and Confused.

We just got word of possibly the coolest photography exhibition in recent days - if only we were in London!

Who? Matt Irwin, of Dazed and Confused fame.

What? An exhibition featuring his fashion photography for the mag

Where? Print Space Gallery, 74 Kingsland Rd (London), nearest tube Old St.

When? Private viewing on February 11th at 7:30, then open to the public until February 26

Why? Pictures of Agyness, Alice Dellal, kids in crazy costumes…

Two months ago, Dazed and Confused did an enchanting, enchanted shoot on the set of the Neverending Story film.

It featured two models, vaguely dressed as the film’s faraway heroes, The Empress and Atreyu, wearing elfin dresses from Prada and Rodarte.

The spread was styled by Katie Shillington, a fashion editor at the magazine, and we loved it.

Now this month, something else that we love:

A spread with Bridget Hall, also styled by Katie and inspired by another ’80s child classic, Jem and the Holograms. Dazed even made a music video to go with the story, and although it featured a Courtney Love soundtrack, we thought of something else:

The quote from Anna Wintour about how the best stylists work from a place of childhood loss, “the degree to which the fashion editor’s visual perspective is governed by his or her earliest years… in a great stylist is a deep pool of memory and longing. It’s down there that the extraordinary images swim from.”

Ms. Shillingford seems to like swimming from her old TV set.