Slap him or slap yourself (Dawn)

More and more young women are being asked by total strangers to ‘dress properly.’ — AP More and more does one now hear about incidents and tales where young urban women are being asked by total strangers to ‘dress properly’ or more so, wear a dupatta over their heads or observe hijab.

Isabel and Ruben Toledo Honored With Andre Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award at SCAD Fashion Show (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)

The Savannah College of Art and Design honored Isabel and Ruben Toledo, internationally renowned artists in the worlds of high fashion, style and design, with the 2009 Andre Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday, May 16, at the universitys annual SCAD Fashion Show. SCAD President Paula Wallace and Vogue Editor-at-Large Andre Leon Talley presented the Toledos with the award.

Japan officials promote hip Japan (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

TOKYO–Japan’s grey-suited bureaucrats have teamed up with a blue cartoon cat and Tokyo fashionistas sporting ‘Gothic Lolita’ urban chic in an official drive to promote hip Japan around the world.

Bucs’ center Jeff Faine’s charity fashion event draws 400 at downtown Orlando venue (Orlando Sentinel)

Football and fashion probably go together as well as beer nuts and champagne, but that didn’t deter Tampa Bay Bucs center Jeff Faine from pulling off his first organized fashion show.

Sex, drink and fashion. Is this the new face of American feminism? (u.tv)

It seemed like a coup for feminism when Slate, an online magazine, launched a new, women-focused website, Double X, last month.

Kicking off: A new film relives the fashion and fighting that defined the football ‘casuals’ (Independent)

Sometimes it takes more than smart clothes and memorable music to cement a youth subculture in history – it takes a film. Quadrophenia did it for mod culture in 1979. More recently, Shane Meadows’ This is England brought skinheads back into the public eye. Pat Holden’s stylishly scrappy new film Awaydays is set to do the same for football casuals – although it’s fair to say the film doesn’t …

Buy Jeepney street mag and help the homeless (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

For Rolando Tiongson, a former garbage collector, selling “Jeepney” magazine has changed his life.

The faux mystery that is ‘How I Met Your Mother’ (Los Angeles Times)

The maternal truth will eventually be told, but, meanwhile, getting there is more than half the fun. Does it still count as a cliffhanger if the cliff is miles away? ” How I Met Your Mother ” has perhaps the least-honest title on network television, a show premised upon the reveal of information that, let’s be honest, won’t arrive until the threat of cancellation is looming.

Lady Gaga’s poke at celebrity obsession (Adelaide Now)

LADY Gaga remembers the moment she got perspective on celebrity-culture overload.

Why the world is going GaGa (Herald Sun)

LADY GaGa remembers the moment she got perspective on celebrity culture overload.