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It's maybe a definitional thing, but irony isn't the thing that jumps out here. As Pat said it's shameless appropriation - and it's just spectacular cynicism. I used to go into YSL stores when Pilati was there and could really appreciate the clothing - the fabrics were beautiful and the quality of the finished product was very high. The clothes looked and felt "high end". I went into the Paris store last month and the clothes looked and felt like well laundered Topshop.
It's maybe a definitional thing, but irony isn't the thing that jumps out here. As Pat said it's shameless appropriation - and it's just spectacular cynicism. I used to go into YSL stores when Pilati was there and could really appreciate the clothing - the fabrics were beautiful and the quality of the finished product was very high. The clothes looked and felt "high end". I went into the Paris store last month and the clothes looked and felt like well laundered Topshop.
Bingo
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
It's maybe a definitional thing, but irony isn't the thing that jumps out here. As Pat said it's shameless appropriation - and it's just spectacular cynicism. I used to go into YSL stores when Pilati was there and could really appreciate the clothing - the fabrics were beautiful and the quality of the finished product was very high. The clothes looked and felt "high end". I went into the Paris store last month and the clothes looked and felt like well laundered Topshop.
Yes, shameless and cynical, I agree. Did you ever see the collections Alber Elbaz did for YSL?
Not so much a WTF but WOW at this ending price for YSL safari jacket from the 70's.
...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.
kek
you know, looking like a colleague isn't a bad thing, if it's for the right reason - if you're mining hollywood and vionnet and dune like rick does then there's a good chance you'll come up with similar work. but it'll probably be pretty good cuz vionnet and dune are rad as fuqq
it's this thing where you look at rick, and then reappropriate him, that's a little silly. cuz then you are, at best, chasing after a market that he's already serving quite well and no one is gonna buy your shit.
at least wait for rick to die before you pillage his work.
kek
you know, looking like a colleague isn't a bad thing, if it's for the right reason - if you're mining hollywood and vionnet and dune like rick does then there's a good chance you'll come up with similar work. but it'll probably be pretty good cuz vionnet and dune are rad as fuqq
it's this thing where you look at rick, and then reappropriate him, that's a little silly. cuz then you are, at best, chasing after a market that he's already serving quite well and no one is gonna buy your shit.
at least wait for rick to die before you pillage his work.
The interesting thing about Kamila's line is that she's most likely making as much -if not more more- money than Rick's footwear sales. Her prices are pretty steep, and the designs nearly identical, so I think it has something to do with her distribution.
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