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Paris Fashion Week is well underway, but you don’t have to hit the streets of France to find out what’s in vogue. Take a walk through UC Berkeley and you’ll find a wealth of styles that are trendy yet distinctive — the Normcore cool kids, the indie prep, the girl
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While making it through the first full weeks of class can get tough, it’s easy to add an extra kick of energy to your day with the right outfit. From preppy rigs straight out of the Ivy League to more contemporary, punk looks, Berkeley’s fashionable kids understand that one can’t
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Set among the abandoned warehouses of Pier 70, Summersalt 2014 featured an exciting range of dance music performers, both international and local, in the Bay Area. Offering popular acts in hip-hop and trap from G-Eazy to Keys N Krates, the festival was a wild success, as concert-goers danced nonstop from
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Although it’s already time to turn our gaze towards London Fashion Week, the press still isn’t ready to forget the abundance of innovative ideas and outstanding collections seen this season in New York. Overall, the runways continued the ‘90s revivalism and sporty casualization of fashion, which in its most extreme
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Rounding out the West Coast music festival circuit, San Francisco’s annual Summersalt will transform the historic Pier 70 into a daylong dance floor for the Bay’s alternative EDM community. From Diplo to DJ Shadow, Summersalt has featured the biggest names in trap and alternative dance music. Heavyweights Keys N Krates,
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As the summer of 2014, Welcome Week and the Labor Day weekend slowly slip into memory, it’s time for UC Berkeley students to get adjusted to yet another semester. Of course, getting adjusted includes acclimating to the Berkeley weather, notorious for its unpredictable sways in temperature. Here, UC Berkeley’s best-dressed demonstrate creative
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It’s Welcome Week, and everyone’s dressing to impress — freshmen and returning students alike. So how do you stick out from the crowd? Don’t fret about first impressions, just express yourself like you normally would. Sporting everything from menswear-inspired chic to antique accessories, these five best-dressed kids show that the
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Although initially inspired by the searing melodrama of Tennessee Williams, notorious director Tommy Wiseau has ridden the wave of inexplicable success due to a preternatural gift he stumbled upon — comedy. On Friday and Saturday, rabid fans will line up outside Oakland’s Piedmont Theatre to experience his crowning achievement, “The
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It may be the end of August, but don’t be fooled — the weather’s only about to get warmer. Known for its late Indian summer, Berkeley will be at its best during the next few weeks, and its climate is a perfect one with which to start the school year.
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At the beginning of the month, campus organization Fashion and Student Trends held its biannual FAST fashion show at Clark Kerr Campus’ Krutch Theater, but FAST’s models weren’t the only ones looking ready for the runway. The audience that lined up for the show was a who’s-who of the best
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