I have finally completed my RO take on classic outfit: blazer, shirt (old season neck-back-buttons collar), tux pants, and next opportunity to wear it is in 3-4 months from now. Sometimes it sucks to live in South.
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Originally posted by newp View PostIs anyone sad about recent branding appeared on most m.a+ accessories (belts, rings, bracelets) a season ago as much as me?Originally posted by hausofblaqGrow up.
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what kind of branding are you referring to?"AVANT GUARDE HIGHEST FASHION. NOW NOW this is it people, these are the brands no one fucking knows and people are like WTF. they do everything by hand in their freaking secret basement and shit."
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Originally posted by lowrey View Postwhat kind of branding are you referring to?
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huh, I've totally missed that. I wonder if they had it on the showroom samples because I didn't notice.
Well, it's certainly discreet, though a bit unecessary."AVANT GUARDE HIGHEST FASHION. NOW NOW this is it people, these are the brands no one fucking knows and people are like WTF. they do everything by hand in their freaking secret basement and shit."
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37ING & Cantara : WTF are you children even talking about. Take that shit back to the sandbox
Originally posted by Shucksit's like cocaine, only heavier. and legal.Originally posted by interest1I don't live in the past. But I do have a vacation home there.
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if you're petty enough to let other people wearing a brand dissuade you from doing the same, then you're no better than the people you're criticizing.
i get the disgust with the mindless consumerism of the hong kong fashionista (not really specifically hong kong, just people who buy into trends aimlessly), but if you're avoiding a brand you like merely because other people like it, then you're just the reverse of the people you're talking about.
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I'm kinda get what they said. Most people in their early twenties, or even older care a lot about being unique and they want to express themselves in a way that no other people could. I mean, in a fair general view you don't spend several thousands bill on clothing or footwear just to be subtle.. and Gregor, coming from HK I guess you had your fair share of youngster running around ruining the whole RO look with only their Geobasket and whatsoever clothing, right?
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Paul Harnden is the Rick Owens of the middle aged cultural elite.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Just say one of my neighbors who has a women's line.........
Said they are winding down the business, gonna be closing.
Is there any hope for the small guy anymore?
not a good way to start my morning“You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
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Originally posted by fit magna caedesDifferent demographics in China and Japan, I'd say. Perhaps true in certain Anglo-European circles, but age profiles different in Asia.
But no, actually, I can't see it--those people (I can say "those", I'm not quite middle-aged yet) don't do "grails" and in general don't acquire and wear pieces in the same way most Rick fans do. Harnden fandom is less overt, for a start (as befits, of course, the "cultural elite", ha). Not that all Rick fans dress/think in those kopster terms. But those who don't at all--the ones who just wear all-Rick as a lifestyle: they tend to be, well... on the older side. And "culturally privileged", if you catch my drift. Not much gap there--both going to the same gallery openings...
There's no doubt some class issues there, though (people wearing PH who feel they're "above" streetwear, with all the class/race overtones that implies), but overall I'd say gender is a bigger issue. Rick is just so much more queer than Harnden (for men, at least, different for women because Rick's woman seems pretty straight to me, or at best asexual).
Although... maybe I'm reading too much into it on the gender issue. I mean HBA could not be more queer if it was all cut from rainbow flags, but my prudish students still wear it with no apparent clue...Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by zamb View PostJust say one of my neighbors who has a women's line.........
Said they are winding down the business, gonna be closing.
Is there any hope for the small guy anymore?
not a good way to start my morning
Like, one offs and individually tailored.
I represent a lot of artists, and the death of many an artist is selling prints for $20 of art that took them 5 weeks to accomplish.
The only artists I represent that make a living sell one piece, usually on commission or with a patron paying for it, one at at time. Also, tattoo artists are doing gangbusters.
I think fashion designers could benefit from the same approach. Sell one pair of perfectly tailored pants as a custom order to one person instead of trying to sell 10, 100, or 1,000 online to the whole world.
Edited to add: The reason is it cuts almost all overhead, warehousing, transaction fees, and keeps the brand/art niche, and therefore desirable. I don't know if that could work with fashion the way it works with pottery or mixed media lighting installations, but it might.
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Hard to generalize this way without specific numbers for the margins involved in each product / sku, and in the case of something like an illustrator or a composer -- whether your margins include the opportunity cost of the time spent on the particular piece.
Zam can comment on this strategy within fashion as he does a lot of custom orders.
Within design and illustration my experience suggests you're absolutely correct, I personally don't ever bother selling prints of my work or otherwise pushing it in atomized bursts.
With music it is a bit of a different story as the professional direction of composing for, say, a film is very different from working as a recording artist and the clientele often doesn't overlap. However, I would say at this point no one pays attention to record sales as they're meager and makes the bulk of their income through touring and licensing, so in a sense the approach is "bespoke." The performances are catalyzed and made possible by releasing originals and remixes, so both sides are necessary.
In a sense this is what studios like Zam's do with a combination of the main lines and the custom tailoring.
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Gregor I am specifically talking about the fashionistas I suppose. The kind of people who buy things for the hashtag and because something is "in". I also never stated I wouldn't wear PH now because everyone else is wearing it. That would be ridiculous. I was merely making an observation that I see so many 20 somethings now with the same PH fits running around NYC.
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