Re: Hood By Air S/S16
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 2:00 pmwho funds this? I don't believe that hba is a commercial successful enterprise.
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 2:00 pmRe: Hood By Air S/S16
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 2:23 pmLouis vuitton gave them like 100k last year
Re: Hood By Air S/S16
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:08 pmall pretty horrible
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:17 pmi love this
Re: Hood By Air S/S16
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 4:27 pmI don't know if this is fair but it looks to me like yohji ss15 with random craig green inspired details and HBA written everywhere
yohji straps
hba straps
yohji zips
hba zips
the whole show just reminds me so much of yohji ss15
craig bits
hba bits
I get how referencing that yohji collection might work with all the bondage fetish shit they do but why just copy craig green like that, overall I don't like the collection much
yohji straps
hba straps
yohji zips
hba zips
the whole show just reminds me so much of yohji ss15
craig bits
hba bits
I get how referencing that yohji collection might work with all the bondage fetish shit they do but why just copy craig green like that, overall I don't like the collection much
Re: Hood By Air S/S16
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 1:25 amHBA is growing on me, if only for the space they're carving out for non-white, queer influence in fashion. I don't think the total looks are wearable for anyone outside of the club scene in New York but there's a weird, disturbing McQueen feeling I get from this line sometimes. This wasn't my favorite collection of HBA but it's strong and wrong, and worth looking at which can't be said for about 90% of NYFW.
Re: Hood By Air S/S16
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:39 pmI think some pieces are really good and new but taking from past collections and the scene they market to I can't really look at HBA as I do other brands due to dismagazine (now shit) there isn't a whole lot of money because of their shtick but most pieces here look like concepts that weren't fully developed. "almost there but not quite"
Re: Hood By Air S/S16
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:47 pmben they probably sell a trillion longsleeve tees every year to fobs
Re: Hood By Air S/S16
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:25 amI feel like that statement is like a micro aggression or something. Like you're implying that Chinese people have poor taste.
Re: Hood By Air S/S16
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:39 ami probably see a dozen HBA shirts a day on new money asian kids with mcm backpack and giuseppes
they don't look good
it is what it is
they don't look good
it is what it is
Re: Hood By Air S/S16
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:51 ami don't think it's a matter of taste or anything like that guys. also don't think it's wrong/microaggressive to say that a large percentage of this brand's visible sales (ie the answer to "who buys this") in north america belongs to a specific demographic (but im also not part of that demographic so i could be wrong)
different cultures and subcultures have different expectations of what a persons relationship w clothes should be and i think it's clear that the HBA/mcm/guiseppe/givenchy/whatever look isn't a look that's supposed to look "good" to people who are interested in fashion in the way that we are but rather a means of projecting status / visible luxury.
they look good to the people they're trying to look good to (which, again, definitely isn't our niche community).
different cultures and subcultures have different expectations of what a persons relationship w clothes should be and i think it's clear that the HBA/mcm/guiseppe/givenchy/whatever look isn't a look that's supposed to look "good" to people who are interested in fashion in the way that we are but rather a means of projecting status / visible luxury.
they look good to the people they're trying to look good to (which, again, definitely isn't our niche community).