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Random Fashion Thoughts (Part 3: Style farmer strikes back) - our general discussion thread

Benesyed

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@dieworkwear bro... hardly fun socks. Those just have colors. I’m talkin socks with **** on them. And yes there are things far worse, like pineapple, pineapple flavored things, etc.

I wear fun socks like with little coffee mugs on them. :)
 

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....socks??! What are those?
 

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Just started reading academic articles related to fashion, instead of fashion journalism. There are some great resources out there that provide more thorough analysis of fashion topics eg. why Margiela is 'good'.

If others are interested in these topics, I'd recommend reading some like Fashion Theory or Costume.
 

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Storytelling isn't just overused in fashion.

Design, ad, marketing, good God, let's stop relating things to storytelling. Let's start relating things to Fucken'.

"What do you think about this ad campaign?"

"I love it. I could totally **** this. This is mega-fuckable."

"Hey did you see the Library of Congress' rebrand?"

"Yeah, it's awful. Completely unfuckable. Can't ******* for ****. Dreadful."
 
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"These indigo dyed socks with lightning bolts on the side made by indigo artisans? Yeah, man, I've fucked those. Real good."
 

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Just started reading academic articles related to fashion, instead of fashion journalism. There are some great resources out there that provide more thorough analysis of fashion topics eg. why Margiela is 'good'.

If others are interested in these topics, I'd recommend reading some like Fashion Theory or Costume.

Why read academic papers about why Margiela is good when you can read Jet’s 4,000 about how Margiela was only good pre-2004?
 

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tbh, kinda into fun socks lately.

american trench ochre boot socks

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kapital smiley socks


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rototo double face terry socks


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and white socks (don't know if this counts as fun, but it's not rule-abiding anyway)

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i also like these pale yellow socks on bruce boyer, although i still personally mostly wear conservative navy socks with tailored clothing

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Yellow socks are fun socks now? Has red socks moved on from de facto Fun Socks category into Classic and Timeless?
 

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“The myth of the starving artist is a myth. The big bankers and prominent young ladies who buy art started it. They just want to keep the artist under their thumb. Who says an artist can’t have any money? Look at Picasso. The starving artist is usually starving for those around him to starve. You don’t have to starve to be a good artist. You just have to have love, insight, and a strong point of view. And you have to fight off depravity. Uncompromising, that’s what makes a good artist. It doesn’t matter if he has money or not.”

A Dylan quote from Playboy 1978

For what it’s worth I’m pretty sure the starving artist thing doesn’t come from an ideal of authenticity but rather from the fact that artists are generally poor.

I mean, unless you’ve got Daddy’s Money of course.

Pretty much every artist, musician, chef, etc I know is basically starving (read: can’t afford a $95 beanie).
 

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Hmm I'd look at XVIII-XIXth description of bohème as the origin of the narrative surrounding starving artists, now i'm sure you can link this with a Marxist analysis of the condition of production in the field of art, yeah...
 

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Pretty much every artist, musician, chef, etc I know is basically starving (read: can’t afford a $95 beanie).
You realize that you've defined that universe by two independent characteristics, yes?
 

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