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Hey ladies: Are you feeling unappreciated? Have you ever wished that strange men would oogle your cleavage more than they already do? Are you tired of reminding potential sexual partners that, even though your eyes are "up here," what you'd really like them to notice are your assets "down there"?

GreenSmith Concepts Inc., based in Hollywood, Florida, can help. No, silly, not with self-esteem-boosting therapy sessions or women's studies classes. With temporary tattoos for your tits! Duh.

They're called Ta-ta-toos, and according to their makers, they're designed to "highlight a woman's best assets... her cleverness and creativity."

If only we'd heard about this before Mother's Day.

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It's nearly impossible to hear the name Nigel Barker without having the resounding voice of Tyra Banks saying "noted fashion photographer" come to mind.

But aside from his lengthy gig as a judge on America's Next Top Model, Barker is a jack-of-all-trades. He's host of The Face on the Oxygen Network, an author, humanitarian, filmmaker, and professional nice guy. He also has a cookbook in collaboration with his mother in the works, which means he's both a man who can cook and a guy who loves his mom. To top it all off, the tan Sri Lankan-Irish-Portuguese hunk has a suave British accent. Sorry, ladies. He's taken. He's been married to his beautiful model wife Cristen for nearly fifteen years.

Just because he's taken doesn't mean you can't admire him from afar, or even from near distance. Fans of Nigel Barker will have the chance to meet him this weekend.

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Typoe's shoes, coming soon to The Webster.

Street artist and creative director Typoe has evolved. He's not just making pieces as a "fuck you" to society anymore. Now he's creating art that has a lot of personal meaning to him. As one of the co-founders of Primary Flight and a curator of many of the murals you see in Wynwood, he's helping to shape the city we live in.

"We have these young, motivated people," the New Times Mastermind Award finalist told Cultist recently. "We could've easily gone to New York or L.A. or everywhere else where everyone was going and make tons of money. But we're staying here and we're making it work and making Miami better."

And now Typoe's adding a new title to his resume: shoe designer. Typoe has teamed up with local shoe mogul Matthew Chevallard of Del Toro shoes for a limited edition (of 12, then of 50 in back order) wingtip exclusive to the Webster Miami. Though it might look festive, the design is really about death and the scene at a funeral. We caught up with him to discuss his inspiration, relationships, and fashion.

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- Mastermind Finalist 2013: Typoe
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Yesterday evening, on the neverending shopping maze that is Lincoln Road, the high-end denim label, 7 For All Mankind, hosted its first "How do you distress" event. Guests could see and learn the different methods one could use to "distress" their jeans, from the traditional to the avant-garde.

Annie Vasquez, of the colorful Miami fashion blog, The Fashion Poet, hosted the event, which featured a few appearances by other bloggers as well. Also, stacks of the newly-released Ocean Drive were dispersed and fanned out in key places, as the glossy celebrates 20 years.

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- Silowet Couture: Eliminating Miami's Muffin Tops, One Pair of Jeans at a Time

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Each morning, your hardworking New Times staff trudges into our new offices at the Wynwood Building. We are haggard and hungover, bags under our eyes, wearing wrinkled button-downs and jeans that smell like the bar from last night. We were up late finishing feature stories or covering club events or lying awake in bed worrying about the state of modern journalism. We had no time for showers or shaving. We are looking rough.

And almost every morning -- seriously, at least four out of five workdays per week since we moved in at the beginning of March -- we've had to drag our embarrassing, exhausted asses past some perfectly styled models at a fancy photo shoot taking place directly outside our building.

The models and clothing brands involved in these shoots are usually unknown to us. (On our first day in the office, it was a children's fashion shoot, which was less personally embarrassing and more Toddlers & Tiaras-style creepy.) But now, we've found out we arrived too late for the real show: a Victoria's Secret commercial featuring "Angels" wandering around Wynwood in stilettos and not much else, filmed in February by Pain & Gain director Michael Bay.

Goddammit.

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- Pain & Gain's New Red-Band Trailer: Midgets, Macklemore, and Monk Getting Tased
- Pain & Gain: From New Times Story to Michael Bay Film

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Stacy Glover wants you to feel special. You know, that "OMG this fits me so well I'm pretty sure it was secretly made for me" kind of special.

The self-taught fashion designer traded in his marketing chops to figure out what exactly makes the perfect pair of jeans. "Attentive listening is what inspired me to take this journey," he says. "I spent countless hours digesting the frustrations of women I knew that had issues finding jeans that fit." The result: Silowet Couture.

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American Eagles' "jeans in a can."

You might have heard of Lululemon brand yoga pants, recalled this week for being too sheer. What stiffneck initiated that recall?

Well, fortunately for us, American Eagle has no qualms about selling clothes that don't actually clothe the body.

Introducing spray-on skinny jeans -- jeans that fit like a second skin. Because they are, sort of.

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Christian Fashion Week: Wear all the makeup you want, but keep your clothes on.

Do Christians dress differently than the rest of us? Yes, because they're not letting all their shameful flesh hang out for other sinners to see.

That, at least, is what we're taking from the announcement of the first Christian Fashion Week, taking place this weekend in Tampa. It's "the world's first series of fashion shows and events around the idea of fashion with a Christian worldview, considering Christian values such as modesty, boldness, and true style."

Seriously, women -- boldly cover those lady lumps up, will ya? It's for Jesus.

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The future site of Fashion de la Calle Studios.

If you've always wanted to participate in something hip and creative in Wynwood, You're in luck. Pamela Wasabi (of Wasabi Fashion Kult and former Cultist contributor) and Lombardi Properties are joining forces to bring you Wynwood's first ever permanent fashion market. Think: local on-trend designers, vintage shops, and artists. But they need your help.

The space will be called Fashion de la Calle (fashion from the streets) Studios, because, as Wasabi put it, "We are all artists whose ideas were born in the streets by watching and experiencing the city. We work the streets from venue to venue spreading our creativity, hustling here and there [and] trying to make our art survive in a capitalist world, amongst big corporations."

She hopes that this permanent market will set the tone, trend, and mentality of our culture and city. But here's where locals come in: She has room for others in her warehouse-like space, right next door to Crossfit 29 and JugoFresh on 29th St., and needs vendors. And it's a lot of space, too: 2,400 square feet of it.

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- Wasabi Fashion Kult Launches Pop-Up Boutique in Wynwood
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Hannah Sentenac

H&M continued its South Florida domination with Friday's opening of a new location in the shopping Shangri-La known as Aventura Mall. With two massive outposts of the Swedish brand opening less than a month apart, it seems that no one can stop affordable fashion from infiltrating Miami.

Throngs of eager shoppers were lined up by the hundreds Friday morning to be the first to score sweet opening-day deals in the two-story megastore. Check out pics of the neverending line after the jump.

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- H&M to Open Third South Florida Store in Aventura
- Inside H&M's Permanent Lincoln Road Store: An Accessories Boutique, $500 Giveaways, and More

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