Random Rhetorical Hypebeast Fashion Thoughts

[CheerUpBrokeBoy]

[ramdomthought]

What is the story of those clothes

[jujumaster]

[bels]

Is the vachement backlash similar to the rick owens backlash (and probably a lot of fashion backlashes) of a few years ago but accelerated?

"I love it it's aesthetic and cool wait nouveau riche people have started using it as a status item I don't like it it sucks."

[BIGBEE]

at least rick has original ideas

[ASTROCHIMP]

Grailed has a blog now I guess.

[thecanadiancook]

They probably could have picked a better name than Dry Clean Only.

Basically it seems to be an editorial section with links to relevant items being sold, I guess, to drive sales now that they are charging a fee. Categories include Number (n)ine, "street style", 11 by BBS, Sneakers, Supreme, and Raf Simons. So pretty much all categories associated with big ticket items.

[thecanadiancook]

Grailed also started producing some bic lighters with "Archive Raf" logos

[teck]

Yes im glad people are talking about the grailed blog/content platform thing.

As a content/editorial nerd i love this thing but I feel that the content idea of blogging is going away or at least evolving. It's all moved to snapsplaining and stuff. I was sad and smug when Gilt men's blog ate shit.

What do people think?

[bels]

Please help me God show me what snapsplaining is I am a humble man

[Copeland]

That vachement article could've just as well been about early Raf. The only difference is Raf is considered a better designer. The exploitation of youth/street culture occurs wherever art meets commercialism: rock, fine arts, etc. The article is right that there's nothing groundbreaking going on, but there's also nothing "inauthentic" about what vachement is doing. People who wear engineered garments are paying a lot of money to dress like woodsmen. People who wear leather jackets are paying a lot of money to dress like they ride bikes. The criticism is even more conservative in vachement's case since the author automatically assumes the label's customers aren't the cool people themselves but a conspiring bourgeoisie looking to draw from the blood of its young.

[teck]

Probably the most revolutionary thing that vachement (this discussion is worth it in just learning how to spell this polemical designer) is that it is drawing flintstone not from some categorically marginalized group (woodsmen, blue collar workers, punk rockers, janitors, urban Black Americans) but from the ranks of those who are already inside the creative circle (the normcore kids, the street style starlets, the art downtown scenesters*). it's like narcissus saw himself in the water and was like "yo dude where'd you get that hoodie, bruv?". Finally, fashion has become inspired by itself, which is a tickling thought.

sorry if this doesn't make sense i had an IPA earlier.

*you could argue that the artsy kids are themselves outsiders in a way, but at least they're explicitly aware of their own creativity and are in the creative class, unlike say an inspirational fisherman.

[une_impasse]

[alby]

Not to derail the topic, but tomorrow my group Cellars will be releasing their second shirt. I've learned a few things already from this shirt.

1). We need to print more shirts.
2). We need to print more smalls (I am sorry to anybody who wanted a small we are out before we even throw them online :()
3). Lots of colors = lots more moneys.

The remaining shirts (mediums and larges) . Would love to see any of you guys support it, I love seeing people wearing the shirts (smiling) cheers.

[BIGBEE]

[BIGBEE]

666 topics

sick

[Eddie]

[trasparenti]

[teck]

i once lost a job because i got into an argument about the nature of the internet, and how people use it. roughly:

web 1.0 - the beginning, not a lot of creators, a lot of users as consumers of information ("surfing" the web a la Sandra Bullock in "The Net")
web 2.0 - user-generated content (blogs, etc) become paramount.
Nowish - this user-generated content is now organized into either social media feeds (instagram) or into platforms dedicated to certain subjects (wikipedia, editorial websites). it's why i wonder what will happen to blogs, because people don't open up browsers and individually check out blogs, so much as access just a few apps (instagram, fb messenger) and experience the web through said platforms.
Soonish - the internet gets really good at delivering up content into UX interfaces that don't require a lot of browsing, if any.
Later - skynet.

its part of why i like CT -- it's just good old clunky people talking to each other.

I could be totally wrong with the above fyi. just from an editorial perspective, i know it takes so much energy to create and manage content (and there's so much competition) that i wonder if it's still a worthwhile strategy anymore, esp for a site like grailed.

[oucho]

[trasparenti]

http://www.businessoffashion.com/articl ... t-from-ysl

is this old news? Surprised me. Eddy Slime Man left SLP.
pretty big shoes to fill, it'll be interesting to see who they pick for his successor and if they continue doing the same thing or do a 180

can't say i really care either way tbh but we'll see if SLP keeps going strong or if the trend dies out

[CheerUpBrokeBoy]

like slp was influential and all but it was boring

and i'm pretty sure hedi has contributed to a lot of people's body issues and anorexia by making his models fit into size 27 denim on the runway so fuck him

[smiles]

Anyone know a good place to get a haircut in nyc?

[CheerUpBrokeBoy]

[Blastoise]

I don't go on /fa/ besides bst threads so I can't argue there. Valid enough.

Arguing on the other side: as someone who's naturally that skinny without any issues it's nice to see clothes designed to fit my body type (never mind the looser stuff I was trying to wear last year).

[fun_yunchables]

[une_impasse]

i am 6'1" and if i had a 27" waist i would be dead, i don't even think my pelvis is 27 inches around.

not sad to see Hedi go, i think his depiction of women was vulgar + demeaning and his men's stuff was bogus, there's a great showstudio panel where someone professes the people who he gets his flintstone from, actual rock-ers etc, probably wouldn't be caught dead in SLP.

his farewell show was nice though, and i'd like to mention that pierre bergé is a twit while i have the floor.

[Blastoise]

[trasparenti]

Also Zaha Hadid passed away

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35936768

truly unfortunate and disheartening considering she only recently won the Riba gold medal for architecture last year. Criminally underrated, I definitely need to go back and study her work more.

EDIT: by underrated I was clumsily referring to how tough it was for her to secure funding/jobs due to her designs/gender/etc. i was pretty tired but oh well

[evilfriends]

Has anyone else received an actual lookbook newspaper from Acne Studios in the mail?