Benjamin Bixby: Polo Ralph Lauren knockoffs (or homage) with a higher price tag?

[mr monty]

Originally Posted by Teger

are you dense? most of the people in this thread complaining that the brand is unauthentic are out of touch aging white professionals

also sorry, but andre 3000 is no way a style icon

Closer to being a style icon than a clothing designer.

 

[dfagdfsh]

I don't know what role he has in his actual brand, but I hope it's more than justin timberlake has in william rast, which is another terrible, terrible brand, far, FAR worse than benjamin bixby

 

[dfagdfsh]

Originally Posted by randallr

Ben, I'd say Andre is pretty stylish. In a P. Diddy's little *****(forget his name) kinda way.

I would say he is somewhat stylish, but being stylish is not the same as being a 'style icon'

 

[randallr]

Teger, you're being very subjective here.

 

[randallr]

Originally Posted by Teger

I would say he is somewhat stylish, but being stylish is not the same as being a 'style icon'

Who is a modern-day style icon? Ed Hardy? What we call an icon isn't what everyone else calls an icon.

 

[dfagdfsh]

Originally Posted by randallr

Who is a modern-day style icon? Ed Hardy? What we call an icon isn't what everyone else calls an icon.

so your argument is that taste and influences are subjective? oh. my. god. no. way.

I didn't think I had to preface every post I made with in my opinion

I would say that vox is probably a good fashion icon...

 

[YoungAmerican]

Originally Posted by mr monty

Closer to being a style icon than a clothing designer.

"Consisting of 70 pieces, the line is currently self-funded (he's looking for a partner) and, he hopes, will be at Barneys in the fall. Benjamin is a fashion autodidact: He has taken advice from Anna Wintour (who invited him to a Met gala), he has sketched the clothes himself, he has been to Italian factories and Parisian textile fairs."

From a NY Mag piece on the launch of the line.

I'm sure Andre has more involvement with the average Bixby piece than Ralph has with the average piece that has his (made-up-waspy) name on it.

Andre's not a fashion designer, but he's certainly been deeply involved in the creation of these clothes. This isn't a licensing deal.

 

[Macallan9]

Originally Posted by randallr

Ben, I'd say Andre is pretty stylish. In a P. Diddy's little *****(forget his name) kinda way.

Fonzworth Bentley >>> Andre 3000 right now. Andre looks like a clown.

Actually, it's not surprising that posters think of him as a style icon. There's plenty of "oh, as long as I put lots of bright colors together I'm being stylish" going on.

 

[instep]

Originally Posted by Macallan9

Fonzworth Bentley >>> Andre 3000 right now. Andre looks like a clown. Actually, it's not surprising that posters think of him as a style icon. There's plenty of "oh, as long as I put lots of bright colors together I'm being stylish" going on.
Thank you for speaking for the rest of us. We would truly be bereft without your voice. I was also not aware that white counted as a 'bright colour', or that having 2-3 colours in an outfit (one of which is white) counted as 'lots of bright colours'. I have also never seen clowns who dress like Andre 3000. Thank you for enlightening us with your profound knowledge of colours, colour matching, how clowns dress, and for illuminating our sartorial ignorance with your bright shining light. Please keep up the great work.

 

[RyJ Maduro]

Originally Posted by Macallan9

There's plenty of "oh, as long as I put lots of bright colors together I'm being stylish" going on.

This is true. I love the GTH stuff; but it should generally be single items grounded with more subtle tones.

 

[Macallan9]

Originally Posted by instep

Thank you for speaking for the rest of us. We would truly be bereft without your voice.

I was also not aware that white counted as a 'bright colour', or that having 2-3 colours in an outfit (one of which is white) counted as 'lots of bright colours'. I have also never seen clowns who dress like Andre 3000.

Thank you for enlightening us with your profound knowledge of colours, colour matching, how clowns dress, and for illuminating our sartorial ignorance with your bright shining light. Please keep up the great work.

This was a very useful post. Way to stand up for the poor and oppressed masses, ye defender of the helpless.

 

[blackplatano]

Laughing at the clueless BS in this thread.

The irony is that Andre is probably the most SF approved rapper out there in lyrics, style and everything else.

Let's look at Andre's ganstah fits. Specially the very end.




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Can we now STFU and talk about the actual clothes?

 

[Macallan9]

You're right, my apologies for derailing the thread and having instep come in and play public defender. As an apology, here are some Andre 3000 outfits - no bias, just all pulled from the first page of google images.

He does look nice in Green Light, although to be fair it's a music video and there was probably a stylist that dressed everyone.

 

[YoungAmerican]

Well, he's certainly not a corporate lawyer or a banker.

There's no doubt that especially in the past he often dressed outlandishly.

I mean, look at what he wore in the video for Rosa Parks (in the period where he was identifying with George Clinton and Sun Ra):

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The stylistic expectations and requirements of being a professional musician are quite different.

 

[MBreinin]

That Glen Plaid coat rocks.

Mike