Random Rhetorical Hypebeast Fashion Thoughts

[Julio]

[bels]

I'm of the belief that there are like probably a couple dozen clothing collections that could be claimed to have any power outside of the 'look dope' framework, which I'm deeply of the belief is basically dictated by economic factors (dope='wealthy') with about 1% left over for childhood trauma based 'taste in aesthetics'

[popcorn]

[titkitten]

[INNIT]

[titkitten]

[CheerUpBrokeBoy]

i swear GQ editors spend their entire lives incubated in a sterile white room any time they're not writing articles or making videos

they finally got around to making a video about work pants and this guy who's paid to be an authority on style readily admits he spent more money tapering his 874s than he spent on the 874s themselves. i really shouldn't expect more from GQ but this is a new low

[vice]

i thought kanye's suit with the slides looked cool

[INNIT]

[fun_yunchables]

maybe its confirmation bias but my story stuff is the only stuff i own that looks better the more curry i spill on it

(also please forgive me for spilling curry. i love curry and will atone for my sin)

[CheerUpBrokeBoy]

i like when a fashion retail site says what size the model's wearing but not the model's height or weight. it's so clueless it's kinda charming

[bels]

I like it when fashion sites have a section for "leg wear"

[bels]

We're in a golden age my friends, a golden age of yoox brand names

waiting for D5M and LNCCC


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[qalandar]

Speaking of DSM I just came to see if there was any JJ, collection is tiny. They also shrank the PH collection and unfortunately I was £2,600 short so couldn't buy the long mac coat ...

[rjbman]

can always share the pic(s) in viewtopic.php?f=2&t=838

[CheerUpBrokeBoy]

respect to pusha t for always tagging the brands in his IG pics. if he was 15 years younger he'd be a forum poster for sure

[weqe]

honestly just buy used to justify my own consumption to myself, as much as I know how little impact it has on reducing waste and being more ethical. if we follow the chain back far enough there really is no way to avoid exploiting someone (workers farmers sweatshops etc.) so i might as well be part of the less-harmful first world consumers.

the subcultural stuff that comes with thrifting is nice, but ultimately pretty masturbatory and not a great reason to continue accumulating more stuff that i don't have time to wear

[vice]

really don't like bowties at all

[bels]

I bet wikihow is full of huge untapped reservoirs of inspo

[fun_yunchables]

[kickingthefly]

random teen reps me online in obvious bid to get me to buy his overpriced grailed clothing

[kickingthefly]

@rjb yeah i thought her comments in that thread about textures were astute, i can see why she's drawn to lee bul who (i think) tries to conceptualise historical development/ 'the future' in very material terms . i presume Alita BattleAngel and GITS are games? do you know them?

[rjbman]

ya as innit said, gits = ghost in the shell. a live action remake of the 1995 anime came out last year and was poorly received

and it is a constant source of inspo for me.

[INNIT]

also donna haraway is an actual character in the gits anime film, or something

[kickingthefly]

looking very quickly at that thread i'm a bit underwhelmed tbh. certainly the art stuff. 'get a load of cutting edge artists to collaborate' yeah ok and then your mood board is lee bul (fine) olafur and jenny holzer (???) plus some really naff looking orangey futurist scenes. similarly light striking a prism, i suppose this harks back to 70s bio optimism type things, whats that film where he has spaceship garden and the two droids.
ok you want to be true to the original (like all fanbois) but seems a bit management consultant-y, big picture phrases with shaky research/ ppt slides backing it up
i suppose im saying that if curator at my gallery came up with that id be like hmm she didnt spend long on it

[Julio]

feels relevant to share rn

[rjbman]

so my issue w/ gits 2017 was that it seemed like they picked out the scenes that folks loved from the original (falling from the roof, the garbage man fight scene, the spider tank final battle) and strung them together with hamfisted bastardization of the prominent themes of the original, mixed in with the tv show (stand alone complex) 2nd season villain / lover.

essentially, it missed the forest for the trees, and replanted all the trees in a new place w/out any of the bushes, flowers, walking paths, clearings, or birds.

also there was the whole backlash about scarjo being cast as an asian woman (criticism that i agree with but not a dealbreaker for watching it) that they tried to explain away in-universe with scenes clearly filmed separately and shoved in (way worse than just being obtuse about lack of representation)

I think the point that stuck most with me was all about looking forwards from today and extrapolating a future that isn't all dystopia. I don't think that gits 2017 moved this forward at all, just copied the existing future from the 1995 anime. However I'm also sure that if they had materially changed it, there would have been a huge backlash too, so idk. But maybe this idea can be given new life in a spinoff or something.

sorry for rambling a bit

edit: also, do you have a link to that screenshotted thread?
edit2: https://twitter.com/monikabielskyte/sta ... 1113240577

[kickingthefly]

i think there's probably a lot i don't get here, having not seen either GITS or even really knowing much about science fiction. one thing i didn't understand is the post-dystopian vision you refer to above, her saying ' i want the future to be hopeful' - i'd be interested to know what informs this. for example lee bul's vision of imaginary/material futures are sort of recursive (this is my reading of course, don't presume to speak for her); she loves the idea of trying to construct new societies etc but seems to think they are always doomed to fail- this is connected to much of her life being spent under successive governments that started out with optimism but became dictatorships.
i suppose i'm just skeptical on the basis that one hears 'technology is rilly cool and will deliver the intersectional future' constantly as the mantra of every on-message corporate marketing machine, i just hope monica's optimism is based on more than this?

i'm not sure how to link the thread, it was on errolson's twitter 2 days ago so you could check back? (some teen txted me almost as soon as he posted it lol)

(BTW ANYONE IN BERLIN?? Lee Bul's exhibition opening/party this friday 28th- drinks + FRZNTE DJ set, come along
https://www.facebook.com/events/273696099901332/)

[norman]

seeing the OG gits with no previous understanding of that universe or it's history, i felt insulted by how the new one left no stone unturned and rushed the whole legacy in a sub 2 hrs movie (was it sub 2?) ghost, just like akira, is a deep mindfuck from start to finish where you really have to sink yourself into that world to understand what's going on. not to rehash well-discussed subjects, but i think that the BR2049 was more successful at adapting to the world that we live in today. the bits about san diego being an endless trash heap and all of the inner empire being covered in grub farms felt far more believable than the relatively polished bond-esque evil villain settings that GITS3.0 presented. i mean the tits in the new one werent even as good as i expected!

tl;dr lil uzi vert should have been in the new GITS

[rjbman]