Originally posted by PurpleJesuss
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We all subscribe to a certain aesthetic here as mentioned previously and that's why anyone here would be disappointed in seeing that aesthetic taken and "tainted" by people wearing it just because it's "in" or expensive enough to be status symbols. We lose a lot of things in the process of mass production also to fit this whole new wave of shoppers wanting Rick Owens' designs. Of course I'm happy that they're successful and that any designer is for that matter. They work hard for it, especially when they come from a design standpoint that the majority of the world won't subscribe to. I think we've all fell into this niche and I for one like it as a niche and I can and will still appreciate Rick Owens and his pieces despite people Austin Mahone wearing it and not caring about what it is at all. The celeb world is gonna move with the times, it's totally understandable. Everyone there wants to be at the forefront of "fashion" but when you see the bullshit that Justin bieber wears for the most part and what usher and whoever else normally wears then see them one day all of a sudden subscribed to rick owens and then back to the nonsense that passes for cool, its annoying.
I grew up in the "hood" and people were buying as many jordans and air forces as they could, not because it was only cool but because it was that name that took them to this other fashionable and in level. I honestly never cared about brands when I was younger (even though I did wear things like polo and hilfiger) but the day I would come into class with something not branded, I was looked at completely differently, I was treated differently. When I switched my boots from route 66 to timberland, lots of things changed and that's the way it is. No one where I was from gave a fuck about Margiela. You never saw those same kids who subscribed to jordan and nike wearing margiela sneakers until Kanye West mentioned the brand in a song and then boom, it was everywhere. I was with my friend who was wearing a CDG Play shirt when the line first released and someone came up to him in the train station and talked to him about his "Drake" shirt. People will always be inspired what the "in" musician or public figure is wearing and it's just annoying as hell to the rest of us who are dedicated to something beyond it being "of the moment". It's the bandwagon movement that's bothersome.
This is such a broken record point and it's gonna be like that forever until some other rapper comes by and makes another brand not the cool thing to wear but the thing to wear that's a step above what is looked at as "cool" (outside of SZ brands). Lots of kids and people out there are wearing supreme because it's cool and cool rappers are wearing it, but the cooler rappers are wearing rick owens and it's a way to separate yourself from the supreme crowd. I've had enough people tell me "tough rickys" and how "hard my outfit goes". I guess it's all a matter of time. I just want good zippers again and I don't want to see Yohji's PR invite justin bieber to a show! IS THIS TOO MUCH TO ASK?????
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