WTF

[DamageX]

[Dropt]

He better sticks with the photography.

[lowrey]

always knew Lazzari had a pretty wtf-esque line up (PRPS or RL jeans next to CCP and Uggs next to LUC), but this time they exceeded all expectations.

[Shucks]

^ during his visit to the old country, mike stops dead in his tracks when leaving the lazzari store - he's spied some printed bbc shirts. perfect for a beach situation.


...italians... for everything but food, they always seem to sort of mess up a good thing with some extra cheese. it took me a while in milan to accept that antonioli's local customer is happy to mix lanvin, dsquared and demeulemeester indiscriminately.

[hurricane08]

when i was last time in antonioli ,dg and dsq were hidden in the drawers.I thought that they had stopped selling them ,but i saw them there when the assistant was searching to find the silent tees .

[snafu]

its is just so italian best and the worst aspects together... leaving you kinda blank + & - ?

[BSR]

...italians... for everything but food, they always seem to sort of mess up a good thing with some extra cheese.

[bestial]

mozzarella is fake cheese :(

[Faust]

what he is trying to say that for every culture there is a counter-culture. For every Dolce and Gabbana you will get someone who wants to do something opposite, because they cannot be surrounded by such utter shit. Where do you think all this amazing Russian literature comes from, paradise on earth?

[Chant]

what he is trying to say that for every culture there is a counter-culture. For every Dolce and Gabbana you will get someone who wants to do something opposite, because they cannot be surrounded by such utter shit. Where do you think all this amazing Russian literature comes from, paradise on earth?

Most amazing causal shortcut ever.

[Faust]

:) literary criticism is my forte!

[galia]

I totally agree with that statement. That is why, if we want good art, we should also want less freedom (which is terrible)

[BSR]

so best of the best for art is nazi period and contemporary north korea ?

[galia]

spot on!

[syed]

^ The best art comes out of restriction rather than unlimited freedom, even if it is usually out of an attempt to break free from restriction.

Art students know that when they are given total free reign to do a project on any subject they want, they usually struggle. Having a set of rules, even if they are self-imposed, usually helps creativity - of course once confident you can throw away the rules, but as a starting point they are good. The less you have to work with, the more creative you tend to get. Of course ideally given the world to work with we ought to create even more beautiful things, but that tends to lead to a sensory overload so we don't even know where to begin.

I think the idea that artists work best when under outside, or indeed internal, pressures (when there is less freedom as galia puts it) is definitely true, and it is of course also a rather standardized view of things. We all know the myth of the struggling artist and the troubled genius as examples of more internal restrictions.

Art produced in reaction is usually more fascinating because it has such a strong emotion behind it, but also because of the strong rupture and ostensible disconnect from its context and what went before. Counter culture always needs culture to react to - as obvious as that sounds - and it means you need the bad to get and appreciate (even more) the good.