Random fashion thoughts - Part II (A New Hope)

[venividivicibj]

Apparently lots of US specific news of the same coming soon

is there a reason why no US names/business yet? Are they saving them for something?

edit - reporter just said "wait for what is coming next" re: the US

 

[MGoCrimson]

Yep. Wonder if any of the presidential candidates will be named

 

[cyc wid it]

I'm sure everyone will be punished accordingly.


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[LA Guy]

Like Fok's all indigo everything + vis would have easily fit into a trend during the raw denim days, but he still does it now and was doing it before then. So did you feel awkward as **** when everybody else was dressing like you (in a sense) Fok?

I can only answer for myself. I have no issue at all incorporating trendy items into my uniform, and allowing my uniform to evolve, so, I guess that, no, I never felt awkward when people dressed like me, or when I dressed somewhat like a lot of other people.

I like heavy leather, and I like denim, I like boots and busted up sneakers and I like looking like what I imagine a drifter in my image of route 66 might look like. I live in my own little world.

It should be noted that I look at instagram feeds and lookbooks and editorials nearly completely out of professional interests - I am interested in what is out there, what images are being create, and being fed to people, and because I no longer live near a major metropolis, I need to see what is going on. However, I don't personally follow any instagrams, tumblrs, whatever. I am completely bored by fashion blogs. I would much rather browse Yoox, with their **** styling. In fact, I prefer the **** styling, because that allows me to reimagine what a specific piece could look like. I like Greg's store for a slightly different, but related, reason. It is curiously incongruent, so I never get trapped into a specific look by over curation.

Put it this way - I am horrible at anagrams. If I am given the word "cinema", I will never be able to shake it to make the word "iceman". I think that most people, myself included, are the same with fashion. It's really hard to shake a specific image once it embeds into your mind, even when you have a lot of training/background. Which is why I generally find the most delightful things being worn by people who care about fashion, but who live in the middle of nowhere, where their environments don't force them into very specific boxes. It's typically much less polished, but it is, at least to me, much more interesting and likeable. When I moved here, I met a girl, a dance major, who dressed like a very typical "hipster" circa 2007 (because that's when I moved here.) She looked a lot like a lot of other denim era hipster girls in LA or Boston, or NYC, except that she wore a lot of Ed Hardy tees in a completely non-ironic way, and it looked great. I'm not sure that living on NYC, she could have done that, because she would have had the constant feedback of "Ed Hardy is terrible. Ed Hardy is terrible."

If I was to give people any advice, it would be "Stop being so ******* efficient with your life". Efficiency eventually leads to creative death. Some ******* Kondo-ing your life, and instead, embrace the chaos. Instead of reading your subscriptions here or following instagrams of people whose tastes you already like, allow yourself to wander randomly. If something catches your eye even a little bit, go and explore. Maybe it will turn out to be a total dead end - but it will not have been a wasted of your time.

 

[venividivicibj]

Created a CE Thread for Panama Papers

 

[LA Guy]

- Chasing trends is more of a social activity than aesthetic. Unknown designers don't provide cultural capital to the people in those kinds of circles. Likewise, different people relate differently to art. For example not everyone associate the music they listen to with what kind of person they are, or treat it as a reflection of their aesthetic taste. Sometimes it's about listening to what everyone else is listening to, or finding the next whatever before they blow up.

The problem with the bolded part is that you are just associating trendiness with social circles that you don't respect, whereas in reality, it's part of every social circle.

 

[Ragechester]

Anyone mention that @el Bert killed the SF instagram for the past week? That Acne leather

 

[1969]



Apparently lots of US specific news of the same coming soon

It's just people avoiding paying taxes, Does anybody really care about this?

 

[sinnedk]



Anyone hear about the Panama Papers yet?

http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56febff0a1bb8d3c3495adf4/

This is going to be quite interesting.

saw it, shocking, appalling and watch no one gets punished because #MONEY

 

[sinnedk]



It's just people avoiding paying taxes, Does anybody really care about this?

dude you really need to read this https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-panama-papers-global-overview.html i don't think you understand the gravity of it, its really crazy.

corporations scamming money out of people left and right. cover ups. insurance claims defrauded. this is not chump change this is in the millions/billions.

 

[Find Finn]

Use the CE thread

 

[venividivicibj]

Created a CE Thread for Panama Papers

 

[venividivicibj]

It's just people avoiding paying taxes, Does anybody really care about this?

This isnt true either. Mexican/SAmerican Mafia/cartels laundering money. People using these corporations as ways of 'paying' other people (Russia). etc etc.

Also, this is 2.6 TERABYTES of data. That is ridiculous. Lrgest leak in history I believe.

 

[Mr. Moo]

To put into perspective, most men have about 2.5 Terabytes of Appreciation.

 

[sinnedk]



To put into perspective, most men have about 2.5 Terabytes of Appreciation.

you tell em Moo