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"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."
^ I think the guy on the lower left of that GIF has the more accurate expression
“You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
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Ok, back on the straight and narrow with some rare Comme des Garçons AW 2000. Both jacket and pants are oversize and doubled. There are trousers over trousers, and two jackets that can be zipped apart to be worn as two.
"To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize 'how it really was.'
It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger."
-Walter Benjamin. Thesis VI, Theses on the Philosophy of History My rarities and quotidian garments for sale thread. My tumblr and eBay page.
MBD - The jacket/s is/are a little too complicated for my taste, but the pants look awesome.
One more vote for Mail-Moth in leopard.
The jacket is, indeed, complicated, but I bought it because I felt that it really represented that era of CDG - you know, its zeitgeist.
It's from a period of time when Rei was really experimenting with taking structured garments apart, with men's tailoring, with layering and with radical asymmetry (missing sleeves, etc.) So...
And are you trying to tell me this DIY job doesn't pass muster for a French manicure?
Snobs.
MBD
"To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize 'how it really was.'
It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger."
-Walter Benjamin. Thesis VI, Theses on the Philosophy of History My rarities and quotidian garments for sale thread. My tumblr and eBay page.
I think this should go to the HOF just for the sake of it!
“You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
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I think this should go to the HOF just for the sake of it!
This begs the question: you own this monstrosity, yes?
Fucking Fuuma is my hero.
MBD
"To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize 'how it really was.'
It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger."
-Walter Benjamin. Thesis VI, Theses on the Philosophy of History My rarities and quotidian garments for sale thread. My tumblr and eBay page.
It's from a party, I borrowed it from a (girl) friend at the request of those present. I don't actually own/wear leopard although I did later in the evening when we went out.
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