If you haven't already heard, there is a website by the name of THREADLESS.COM — an online community of artists in which original designs and thoughtful slogans are submitted by the community to be produced as silk-screened graphic tees. This is quite the parallel gold mine for graphic artists with an interest in fashion!

As school has come to an absolute beginning, I have immersed myself into new territories of fashion and art while accepting my fate of sleeping far less than eight hours a night. Through one of my classes I have come across what will certainly be a PARALLELS classic that should be noted to all Terregalia readers as a wondrous example of fashion as fine art.

Fashion Illustration has been said to be among the soon-out in the next coming years. Those using it now are largely among the fashion houses that have the time, and the extra dough.

At Mixed Greens Gallery in the heart of Chelsea's gallery district, Zane Lewis has unveiled his 2nd solo show entitled "Watch Me Slowly Death"

For those who think of the Bahamas as always a tropical paradise where one might finally be able to slow or even silence their nonstop New York City train of thought while surrounded by the clear sea and white beaches, think again.

Parallels between fashion and fine art are plentiful in the cultural mecca that is New York City. While many of the individuals deeply ingrained in either of these two highly similar, yet disparate industries look upon each other as distant cousins-there are instances of pure sibling rivalry that create an inspiration of great sorts to the young designers and artists of today.