Random fashion thoughts

are you guys talking about Death From Above (DFA)?


I was obsessed with MSTRKRFT's The Looks album for a good while, and I still like the songs. All the **** they put out afterwords has been rubbish, though.

and speaking about my rave/festival days, I was really into Digitalism and Soulwax for a good minute. What happend to Digitalism? Seems like nothing new has come out in a while.



sipang said:

Stop teasing and go live with ze blog already ! I check the url religiously everyday and all I ever get is the sad robot

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I know, I know, no more excuses I'll make it happen.

zissou said:

Oh ****, I meant Luna. It's on Slide EP.
I heard Dean was playing G500 songs recently. I never would have guessed he'd do that again.
That is one serious collection! Some people really took them so seriously, like the fans who felt cheated at the end of Tell Me Do You Miss Me as Luna broke up.
Real story- way back in 1994 when I was in college, one of my good friends was on the university's concert committee. So, we'd basically request whatever band we wanted, and he'd do his best to get them. Seeing as we were right in between NYC and Boston, it was the perfect stop for some bands. Lo and behold, he gets Luna. Seeing as we were the few weird kids on campus who played the likes of G500, Cardigans, B&S, the show was not well attended. We could have either felt bad for Luna, or felt good for us, with our own little private concert for a dozen or so people...
We also got The Witching Hour, one of Damon and Naomi's bands. One of my dumbass friends wore his Luna shirt to the show, and Naomi, walking through the small crowd, says "Don't let Damon see that shirt".
Cheese and Onions always makes me smile...

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That's really awesome, I would have loved to be there for something like that. You said right between NYC and Boston.. a few weird kids.. Wesleyan?

I guess I have a pretty close experience, in school one of my friends was on the concert committee, same deal - book whoever. This was I guess 06 or 07 and he got Phil Elverum (of The Microphones) to come, this was when he was already doing the Mount Eerie thing, but at the time it was a totally solo act. Well we booked it for the same night that the school booked Motion City Soundtrack for some event, so that was the big time thing and we couldn't use the normal venue. So it ended up being like 10 of us and this super intimate session with Phil and his guitar and laptop and projector, hanging out in this one student center. Pretty awesome show in the end. Saw him recently at 285 Kent and it just wasn't the same.

bows1 said:

Thanks for the Galaxie 500 rec, I've had On Fire on my comp forever and never listened to it. This is great

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Good to hear man, mission accomplished haha. It's one of those albums that is both easy to get into but it also really sticks with you. I don't know how to explain it really but it's a good sound that transcends most tastes and generations

For some perspective:

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Galaxie 500 playing "When will you come Home" under a basketball hoop in a school gym (Boston, 21 April 1989) just before they found success. It reminds you how short their time was - school gym one day - thousands of punters a few weeks later - then it all ended. God I love them.

GDL, NOBD, and Parker: our SW&D Ambassadors for MC

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Yeah, Death From Above 1979. They had a ton of success with The Looks (which sounds so dated now, oddly), but then got into some drug problems that sorta comes with the territory I guess. Thus the crap they've released. There's been some gems, though. Also Al P gained about 75 pounds.

jfk and al.p have always been douchebags.

Story time: a friend of my girlfriend, who I am also pretty acquainted with, managed to get a little 'back stage' action with MSTRKRFT after a show in LA, if you know what I mean. I guess she ended up going back to his trailer where Al.P ( i think it was him) proceeded to put on leather gloves and 'choke' her while ***********.

The end.



aether said:

GDL: our SW&D Ambassador for MC

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I liked his post. I do wish, though, that my theory would gain more traction here - that bit on American GW/Esquire and it's effects on the America-centric population of Styleforum.

Seriously, enough about music. We have a subforum for that. If you want to discuss your ****** musical tastes, do it there. This is the place where we discuss our ****** tastes in clothing.

Random thought - Americans do casual better than Italians. Italians come up with monstrosities like double breasted hooded cardigans with raw seamed pockets, worn with tight, high water jeans, and workboots. I've heard all sorts of explanations like "Europeans don't have the idea of jeans as workwear, so jeans are just another form of pant to them, and decontextualized from X,Y,Z, etc..." But that is just all jibber jabber to me. In the final analysis, it still looks like ****. On the other hand, Italians do tailored with a panache that not even the best dressed Americans can pull off. Nick Wooster, for all his supposed swag, just looked like another poser with colorful pants and pirate facial hair at Pitti.

I feel like my post needs to be elaborated upon.

Italians doing casual, more often then not, look like tourists who walked down Broadway in Soho, and outfitted themselves at the numerous ****** stores there. Everything is overdesigned, and the styling is over-exaggerated, and not in a good way.

It should be noted that most of the Swedes and Dutch I saw did casual very well - very adept at clean lines and muted palettes. Different from the American casual style, which is much grungier and more accessorized, for the most part.

^^ Re: european casual. I think the difference between northern and southern europe in clothing reflects huge cultural differences. A bit of a cliche, but swedes (at least, probably all scandinavians, dutch and so on) are keen on simplicity and sort of looking like the crowd. Stockholm is very "uniform" like in that way, and there is little peacocking going on, while southern europe is all about standing out from the crowd and looking "sexy".

However, the general americana thing has been very influential here aswell. A couple of friends just visited NYC and they were dissapointed how extremly similar the hipsters of stockholm and williamsburg were...

aether said:

What happend to Digitalism? Seems like nothing new has come out in a while.

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New album in 2011 called I love you dude. Not nearly as fun as the first one.



LA Guy said:

Seriously, enough about music. We have a subforum for that. If you want to discuss your ****** musical tastes, do it there. This is the place where we discuss our ****** tastes in clothing.

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LA Guy said:

Nick Wooster, for all his supposed swag, just looked like another poser with colorful pants and pirate facial hair at Pitti.

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agreed ... lol



oneeightyseven said:

if its past your knuckles, that sounds pretty long. where would you have the sleeve sit ideally?

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slightly past my wrist bone would be ideal i guess. the shot from the lookbook was a bit high but still looked great.

Parker said:

the forum has already cycled thru like 4 generations. when i started reading in '04, there was just one forum, no separate sw&d. from what i remember most of the threads were about nudies or edward green sales. ;-) sw&d is way more diverse now. it shouldn't even be called streetwear and denim imo, since it includes many other modes. i like reading it more than mc which seems to be filled with law students prepping for their first job.
btw.. i think a lot of mc crew have no clue about the sw forum aesthetic or interests here. but a few do. there's an interesting little tussle that points out some of this divide in the conservative business dress thread.
btw if you have an mc type tailoring question you could probably ask gdl or nobd (or me if you want). i think they will understand the sw pov. better than some of the rule-following threads.

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i will call upon your knowledge soon

the shah said:

parker is good people. just fyi to rest
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in other news, my friend is join christian dior couture will be going to dubai soon
that's great for me and snowman when we go there we gonna get nice treatments.
well that was a given i already know enough people there, my homeboi just sent me pics when he was having cigars chilling with one of the princes, he was petting a cheetah.
snow, don't wear cologne the cheetah pounced on last dude that had floral scents on !

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what about eau de toilet ?

snake said:

oh? Almost went to Abu Dhabi after my Paris excursion for the last leg of the trip but couldn't make it.
SF meetup at the Emerates Palace?

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this sounds like an awesome idea

Damn, feel bad for these folks.

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Last Wednesday, Betabeat broke the news of impending layoffs at Gilt Groupe. Later that morning, CEO Kevin Ryan downgraded the estimates we had heard, telling AllThingsD that the company intended to “selectively trim” about 50 people from its staff of 900 over the next couple months.

Tipsters have written into Betabeat that some of those layoffs are currently underway. “People leaving. Sadness. Super uncomfortable work environment,” said one source who wanted to remain anonymous, adding, “General atmosphere is terrifying.”

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