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i shall take some photos/scans and lift some of the articles from ^this when i have time

Please do!

quick question:

what does graduating at the 'top of your class' at antwerp specifically entail? you had the highest grades? do they have gpa's or something similar?

I don't know about the academy specifically but in Belgian universities you get a mark out of 20 for each assignment/exam which go towards your overall marks for the class (weighted accordingly). These get aggregated into a final score (%) for the year/degree and the corresponding Latin honours. Graduating top of your class probably just means the highest marks out of the rest of your class/year (i.e. you got higher marks than everyone else).

American GPA stuff confuses me.

American GPA: every assignment is given a grade (either A, B, C, D, or F) with each corresponding to a numeric value (A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0). The weight of these marks is determined by the importance of the assignment, as is done in any grading system, and the grades' point values are all averaged together with respect to weight. This determines your final GPA, which in a non-weighted curriculum will never exceed 4.0. Some schools use a weighted curriculum in which classes that are Honors or AP will be averaged differently in order to account for the increase in difficulty. This is what leads to some GPAs going as high as 5.0 (if the student took entirely advanced classes and received straight A's).

I like the idea of weighted classes. I remember a lot of people avoiding certain classes because they were "hard"

I remember a lot of people avoiding them because the classes were at 8am or they were lazy, underachieving fucks (me)

Weighted courses seem like a good idea though, it's lame to scrape through categorically hard classes and breeze easier ones to come out with a pretty good score.

Yeah, the only issue with that is courses that were Honors and courses that were AP were weighted the same amount above regular courses, despite that fact that an honors course is infinitely easier than AP and does not require a final exam in some cases. This lead to abuse in our school where some students took solely honors classes so that it would boost their GPA. The girl who is #6 in our class of 292 only took one AP course in Junior year and she nearly failed every test.

It's easy to fix but the school board is too stubborn.

Good Schneider stuff on

How good are these?

Sick

Modeontwerper is my new go to insult.

It's a devastating one!

fuck me that is not what I thought he would look like.

did you think he'd look like

"I love Gwanghwamun street in Seoul, South Korea. It's located on a really busy traffic point, but in the middle of all the hecticness lays a beautiful traditional Korean palace. In the background you see a mountain, and around the palace area are small galleries and modern museums."

This is my favorite street here as well.



are there scans of I-D available online?

i found many i-D scans on vfiles a while ago but registration is mandatory now and cba

Tried on a paisley Dries Van Noten shirt today and I'm in love, perfect fit, lightweight fabric, beautiful pattern and dark rich colour. Definitely to buy.

Also tried on but Dries suit sizes don't agree with me. 48 (my normal) is too big in the shoulders, 46 is too small all over.

have some pieces from the new Schneider season arrive. Still waiting for the rest of the collection before making any judgements but the individual pieces are a lot more interesting than the lookbook photos made them out to be.



Made in Belgium, 70% wool, 9% alpaca, 9% mohair and 6% nylon



Made in Belgium, 90% wool, 10% cashmere



Made in Belgium, 60% wool, 25% mohair, 15% nylon

really like that second one but its already sold out in my size.

would like to get some schneider sweaters but i think this year my money for knits is going elsewhere. alas.

Where is it going to?

Oversized belted nonnative cardigan that he hates.

inverallan, actually

More Schneider stuff on , this coat is great:





Quite like these trousers too:

"the stephan schneider thread"


margiela


margiela aw '92


styling by margiela, photo by stoops


branquinho aw '99



margiela jacket



persoons aw '02

Good stuff

Just got a book on early Van Noten, going to write up a post soonish.

I'm not familiar with Veronique Branquinho, what's she about?