What are you wearing today?

[Chinorlz]

you're making me hungry

given all the places you're constantly eating at (and the size of those orders), if I didn't know any better, the Harnden purchases and all the loose fitting clothes are worn to hide a massive gut

[mrbeuys]

You're always hungry

He can't be hungry. He's always eating.

[MikeN]

given all the places you're constantly eating at (and the size of those orders), if I didn't know any better, the Harnden purchases and all the loose fitting clothes are worn to hide a massive gut

Yeah I'm trying to develop some new tattoo canvas.

He can't be hungry. He's always eating.

The thing about eating Jewish food... 72 hours later you're hungry again!

[Chinorlz]

Yeah I'm trying to develop some new tattoo canvas.

Knew it!

[cjbreed]

The simplicity of Harnden and the focus on fabrics rather than changing the designs I liken to hardcore foodies who first evolve and evolve and then want the most complicated execution in their dishes and meals... then years later this (d)evolves into a want for something that is straightforward with a focus on the ingredients rather than overt complexity.

After a while, it becomes too time consuming to layer 5 things, make sure everything matches, put on all your chains and rings etc. etc. It is so much easier to have a series of garments in which everything goes with everything.

To me, there perfect complement to Harnden is maybe a slice of Difara's. Simple yet complex with a focus on the basic components.

thats kind of what i meant when i said post-fashion. and that its worn by some of the most stylish guys around that have been heavily into fashion/clothing for a while. once you've been through it all and participated in all the silliness and extravagance that fashion has to offer, its nice to simplify and return to traditional designs and hand crafted techniques. this works especially well with harnden. the fabrics and the fit go very well with other more aggressive designs and it creates a nice contrast.

[Chinorlz]

thats kind of what i meant when i said post-fashion. and that its worn by some of the most stylish guys around that have been heavily into fashion/clothing for a while. once you've been through it all and participated in all the silliness and extravagance that fashion has to offer, its nice to simplify and return to traditional designs and hand crafted techniques. this works especially well with harnden. the fabrics and the fit go very well with other more aggressive designs and it creates a nice contrast.

same mindset as to why I one day hope to have a minimalist house filled with Serra pieces :)

[francojean23]

That all makes sense, and I'm sympathetic to it, but I would hesitate to call it post-fashion, as if to indicate that it is somehow outside the market or capitalist forces of which fashion is an exemplar. It's really the ability of the same industry to create/capture and more importantly capitalize on a new desire. It might be more accurate to call it hyper-fashion; the exorbitant prices alone reinforce that reading.

[lowrey]

this is Post fashion:



obviously Harnden

[Faust]

thats kind of what i meant when i said post-fashion. and that its worn by some of the most stylish guys around that have been heavily into fashion/clothing for a while. once you've been through it all and participated in all the silliness and extravagance that fashion has to offer, its nice to simplify and return to traditional designs and hand crafted techniques. this works especially well with harnden. the fabrics and the fit go very well with other more aggressive designs and it creates a nice contrast.

I'd say a guy in full on Harnden outfit looks equally if not more outlandish
than a guy in full on Rick Owens.

[Shucks]

depends on context?

[AKA*NYC]

Paul Harnden is the normcore of the avant-garde. Or in Diane Vreeland's words, "It takes a lot of money to look so poor."

well said haha.

while it's certain to get one nods of approval from the paris illuminati ph seems to hold a similar sway over the "uninitiated". i get compliments on ph from the least likely people all who seem to "get it".

the jackets are flattering if you wear the correct size, and not nearly as "great depression" or "hobo" as the jokes suggest.

the silhouette whether shrunken in the jackets or exaggerated in the outerwear/trousers reads as very deliberate and elegant.

i chalk up the phenomenon to the designer's many years honing his craft combined with the slimmer proportions he introduced several years back.

[Faust]

depends on context?

I thought the context was clearly defined by cjbreed, a Paris fashion show crowd.

[Shucks]

sorry. i must have lost track due to clarifications about mike nouveau's eating habits. carry on.

[Patroklus]

this is both funny, accurate, and interesting.

can we call paul harnden, or the paul harnden aesthetic/ethos, post-fashion? is that why so many stylish people that are "inside" the fashion industry are so drawn to it?

what are the women wearing? and the people who aren't getting play on this site?
this came up in a discussion elsewhere more than once, about the difference between who gets play on streetstyle blogs and in waywts, and who is actually buying all these clothes and thus whose tastes are actually being represented by the marketplace.

[Shucks]

'post'/'post'-post

a bit late but lol