random fashion thoughts

[apathy!]

It'll be funny if A$AP ROCKY stops wearing rick owens and all the stylezeitgeist members become seen as passe.

[Null12]

It'll be funny if A$AP ROCKY stops wearing rick owens and all the stylezeitgeist members become seen as passe.

[Lohikaarme]

Your skin can and does absorb chemicals that leach off clothing. I don't go to coffee shops, but what's the warning for if not the plasticky lining of paper cups? Pesticide sprayed coffee?

The process of roasting coffee creates carcinogens.

I wasn't actually sure what the cancer-causing thing, was so I googled it.

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/athome/acrylamide

Apparently "acrylamide" is a common product created by roasting/cooking things, some sort of sugar + asparagine(?) reaction. Found on most "browned" products, it seems.

As for my skin absorbing chemicals (probably the dyes are sort of cancerous?), I feel like I'd still get cancer faster from breathing in urban air, no? All the pollution and stuff?

[Faust]

Park Slope is normcore central. I'd rather see people try and fail stylistically than not try at all. Barf.

[LelandJ]

As for my skin absorbing chemicals (probably the dyes are sort of cancerous?), I feel like I'd still get cancer faster from breathing in urban air, no? All the pollution and stuff?

Causation doesn't happen in isolation. Cancer by a thousand cuts and carcinogens are everywhere. Food, water, chemicals in them are at the top of causation hierarchy if not obvious.

Urban air at Beijing levels would be very high on the list too, definitely more than wearing clothes dyed with carcinogens.

Another huge culprit very few people want to know about is electrosmog because technology's everywhere and addiction to cell phones.

[SHYE_POSER]

Quite a few Helmut Lang references (Lee Roach, Christopher Raeburn), on the first day LC:M.
Otherwise, 90's logo mania reigns (Christopher Shannon, Astrid Andresen).

[the breaks]

It'll be funny if A$AP ROCKY stops wearing rick owens and all the stylezeitgeist members become seen as passe.

Asap aside, isn't this inevitable? The RO look is already starting to be mainstream so to remain "avant garde" one must move on to something else. Should one give to shits about being avant garde, that is

[DRRRK]

The members that are wearing Rick Owens because of A$AP ROCKY will start feeling passé and rightfully so. The others won't give a shit indeed.

[volta]

Another huge culprit very few people want to know about is electrosmog because technology's everywhere and addiction to cell phones.

cancer is in all of us (division of cells/mutated cells), it's a question about when or if our bodies will start losing the battle. all around us code and data is being written constantly, it's not unrealistic to expect that it will once write in error, thus starting the wrong process.

cancer rates have probably remained "fairly" consistent. it's not proved to becoming more common, instead, cancer diagnosis is becoming more common as life standards increase (diagnosis & life expectancy = higher risk of cancer). we also hear about it more, giving that effect.

i wouldn't blame it on technology, even though it is spiking cancer rates, but not in the way you think ;)
in fact, technology makes it possible to detect earlier, making survival rates higher.

why the hate?

fact: the naked mole rat is known (for now) to be immune to cancer.

[apathy!]

Asap aside, isn't this inevitable? The RO look is already starting to be mainstream so to remain "avant garde" one must move on to something else. Should one give to shits about being avant garde, that is

I agree and I don't care (I think).

I just find the idea that I could be walking down the street in a year's time and high school kids will think i'm late to a trend funny.

[Fuuma]

Park Slope is normcore central. I'd rather see people try and fail stylistically than not try at all. Barf.

Normcore style is about being young, cool and good looking enough that you want the world to know you can still do it in ugly clothes without being identified as a normal. You think a black woman from a disadvantaged background wouldn't be seen as sloppy by a schoolteacher, potential employer, etc if dressed like that? For once the #priviledge tag seems warranted as that is all that is going on here.

[Shucks]

fact: the naked mole rat is known (for now) to be immune to cancer.

i still prefer being human though.

[apathy!]

Normcore style is about being young, cool and good looking enough that you want the world to know you can still do it in ugly clothes without being identified as a normal. You think a black woman from a disadvantaged background wouldn't be seen as sloppy by a schoolteacher, potential employer, etc if dressed like that? For once the #priviledge tag seems warranted as that is all that is going on here.

Actually I think you're over-analysing and giving too much credit to "norm-core" people. These kinds of things really are just pretty mindless trends. kids see this stuff on tumblr--->the edgier ones start emulating it-->it reaches a critical mass and the cycle repeats. I don't think many of them would see what they wear as an expression of an ideology.

It's more complex if you want to look at the genesis of aesthetic.

i still prefer being human though.

lol


edit: I hope that doesn't sound elitist. I certainly don't think anybody is superior for having an ethos to their wardrobe.

[Fuuma]

Actually I think you're over-analysing and giving too much credit to "norm-core" people. These kinds of things really are just pretty mindless trends. kids see this stuff on tumblr--->the edgier ones start emulating it-->it reaches a critical mass and the cycle repeats. I don't think many of them would see what they wear as an expression of an ideology.

It's more complex if you want to look at the genesis of aesthetic.

Do you seriously think I am saying people make choices consciously and clearly using rationality? Did the XXth century pass you by? Please

[Faust]

Normcore style is about being young, cool and good looking enough that you want the world to know you can still do it in ugly clothes without being identified as a normal. You think a black woman from a disadvantaged background wouldn't be seen as sloppy by a schoolteacher, potential employer, etc if dressed like that? For once the #priviledge tag seems warranted as that is all that is going on here.

I was merely making an aesthetic observation, and I stand by it. You, out of all people, should know how I form my judgements about people on a deeper level.

Also, normcore is a runaway term by now that has been untethered from its original meaning as formed by k-hole and merely denotes sloppy, ugly dressing and has nothing to do with youth. You should know this too.