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Recent content by merz
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The Official Artisanal "streetwear" footwear (boots, shoes, sandals) thread (Guidi, CCP, Augusta, M.
"it is possible to know the goodness of things"- merz
- Post #24,729
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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Artisanal Clothing and accessories discussion (MA+, CCP, Layer-0, Paul Harnden, Taichi Murakami, Bor
i guess i've realised mid-response that fisty & i likely brought this conversation on to begin with, but my interested in all this stuff was largely brought on by a certain group's body of work and i've come into possessing enough of that to not need much else besides the occasional snag of...- merz
- Post #3,386
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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Artisanal Clothing and accessories discussion (MA+, CCP, Layer-0, Paul Harnden, Taichi Murakami, Bor
while there may be some semantic issues with the term grading, the pattern can be parametrically scaled. although it would be anything but easy, and also kind of a side-step of the project's underlying principles. those being that each such piece is to be created in mind and in concert with the...- merz
- Post #3,373
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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The Official Artisanal "streetwear" footwear (boots, shoes, sandals) thread (Guidi, CCP, Augusta, M.
going to down a shot for every 'artisanal' and 'quality' in this conversation. look, past a certain point there is an expectation of construction and material quality that is 'reasonably decent' and that is something, more or less, present in a lot of the footwear that we're talking about in...- merz
- Post #23,990
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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The Official Artisanal "streetwear" footwear (boots, shoes, sandals) thread (Guidi, CCP, Augusta, M.
sometimes i read through posts like the above and feel myself in need of pause to consider what is being said several times over. have we not bludgeoned this horse into the ground a good decade ago? the subjectivity of value, the way zam puts it, would have that anyone who does not share his...- merz
- Post #23,985
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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The Official Artisanal "streetwear" footwear (boots, shoes, sandals) thread (Guidi, CCP, Augusta, M.
it wasn't a commercial project, more of way for materials manufacturer to do a campaign about their offerings via having a 'young avant-garde fashunz' designer whip up some crazy **** to use as advertisement. i don't think any of that stuff was designed for anyone's closet.- merz
- Post #23,892
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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The Official Artisanal "streetwear" footwear (boots, shoes, sandals) thread (Guidi, CCP, Augusta, M.
looks like the corpse of carpe diem's past receiving a sort of garish post-mortem makeup job for an open-casket funeral. *drops handful of earth onto the coffin*- merz
- Post #23,871
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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The Official Artisanal "streetwear" footwear (boots, shoes, sandals) thread (Guidi, CCP, Augusta, M.
Wow, a real shotgun blast. From docus, who usually sought to avoid confrontation.. Have you come to feel differently about avantindietro since those days, drizzle?- merz
- Post #23,668
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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The Official Artisanal "streetwear" footwear (boots, shoes, sandals) thread (Guidi, CCP, Augusta, M.
failure to understand what one assumes to be and desires to make profitable isn't, as you've illustrated, anything new. what is strange here is that those seeking to make profit have chosen an unlikely candidate for return on investment: an extremely niche brand that, despite volumes of...- merz
- Post #23,649
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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The Official Artisanal "streetwear" footwear (boots, shoes, sandals) thread (Guidi, CCP, Augusta, M.
japanese cdiem situation summed up in one short sentence. i was initially excited for what the future of the work could result in through the japanese revival, but perhaps it is clear now that those tasked with bringing it back are lacking the barest understanding of what it was, or what made it...- merz
- Post #23,645
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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The Official Artisanal "streetwear" footwear (boots, shoes, sandals) thread (Guidi, CCP, Augusta, M.
in case it isn't plainly obvious, the whole thing is a dispiriting cash-grab done by unscrupulous people, aimed at similarly unscrupulous audience (that, in the case of 1+1=3 at least, does not exist). the joke is ultimately on those behind it.- merz
- Post #23,642
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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The Official Artisanal "streetwear" footwear (boots, shoes, sandals) thread (Guidi, CCP, Augusta, M.
for shizzle, my drizzle- but have you actually taken a moment to look at the clothes? I don't know about you, but they do not exactly inspire confidence here. I have expected awkward rehashes of yesteryear's greatest hits, maybe some hodgepodge of familiar parts vaguely recalling nigh-two...- merz
- Post #23,640
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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The Official Artisanal "streetwear" footwear (boots, shoes, sandals) thread (Guidi, CCP, Augusta, M.
i know this is only tangentially related to boots, baller or otherwise, but perhaps this settles for good the debate on what the present holders of the carpe diem trademark intend to make of it moving forward. I give you cdm. which may as well have been any combination of letters like lgb or...- merz
- Post #23,638
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim
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The Official Artisanal "streetwear" footwear (boots, shoes, sandals) thread (Guidi, CCP, Augusta, M.
fisher was a music journalist and hence the examples he uses are rooted in music and popular culture, but he is talking about the capacity for a radical break with the present, recognisable and readily-available, a problem highlighted by what was said about the film in relation to its...- merz
- Post #23,526
- Forum: Streetwear and Denim