What are you wearing today?

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bet his name in real life is Andy

[AKA*NYC]

Hey I've met him; it's true.

i don't doubt it for one second that's why your comment struck me as so brilliant

[Fuuma]

i don't doubt it for one second that's why your comment struck me as so brilliant

Haha well Demeulemeester is one of the designers that conjures the most evocative image in terms of who will really fall for her designs, not so muc regarding their look as their mindset.

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Haha well Demeulemeester is one of the designers that conjures the most evocative image in terms of who will really fall for her designs, not so muc regarding their look as their mindset.

yeah I respect Ann for that....the designers whose work I admire most appeal seemingly more to the cerebral than purely the visual when connecting with their audience. lifestyle synergy > brand synergy any week of the day.

baby and skecr8r_l8r are the exact types of personalities I wish I was acquainted with in real life.

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Haha well Demeulemeester is one of the designers that conjures the most evocative image in terms of who will really fall for her designs, not so muc regarding their look as their mindset.

Interesting is that his "foul Mouth" and "lazy, I don't give a fuck" - Style Philosophy, is nowhere to be found in Demeulemeester.

Also, again, shades and nuances in colour is important to consider!

[Fuuma]

Interesting is that his "foul Mouth" and "lazy, I don't give a fuck" - Style Philosophy, is nowhere to be found in Demeulemeester.
Also, again, shades and nuances in colour is important to consider!

And everywhere to be found in her references. Not that "baby" or anyone else has only one dimension...

[Faust]

yeah I respect Ann for that....the designers whose work I admire most appeal seemingly more to the cerebral than purely the visual when connecting with their audience. lifestyle synergy > brand synergy any week of the day.

baby and skecr8r_l8r are the exact types of personalities I wish I was acquainted with in real life.

Ironically, our baby is in for purely the visual and not the cerebral aspects of her work.

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Interesting is that his "foul Mouth" and "lazy, I don't give a fuck" - Style Philosophy, is nowhere to be found in Demeulemeester.

Also, again, shades and nuances in colour is important to consider!

I dunno, approaching design from a strictly intellectual or supposedly 'meaningful' angle I think is missing the exact nuances you mention, often times which are best summed up in the most crude and base. foul mouth and lazy, I don't give a fuck does sum up what some of the languid all over tailoring of Ann could represent, in one interpretation. Not everything has to be poetic and white horses.

Going again back to my personal favorite, Yohji...what is there to appreciate in the poetic beauty, graceful movement, architectural devotion to his craftsmanship...at the end of the day they're clothes that connect to people who appreciate things as they are in their current state without feeling a need to impose, explain or attain any higher ideal than what is now. To me, Yohji's clothes speak more to an aimless, childlike and oblivious drifter content in his lightness rather than a brainy heavy trying to project some kind of image of mystery and darkness.

and that's how i interpret fashion in general...trying to dress up the clothes to resemble some perfectly choreographed runway act is painfully missing the point. It's one thing about the clothes when they are shown in a setting with a deliberate purpose of garnering visibility, altogether another when they are captured in the life of the individual, which is far too complex and layered in their variances and trajectories to boil it down to something like "the perfect Yohji look" which comes across to me as a gross misinterpretation.

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Ironically, our baby is in for purely the visual and not the cerebral aspects of her work.

on some extent though, the seeming recklessness and irreverence in baby's expression...to me that reflects something about youth, which should be about freedom, movement, etc blah blah if put in more serious terms. I think that the two are different, but not altogether mutually exclusive. In living the visual to obvious effect, i think he's (whether knowingly or not, idk if its important) managed to capture some of that spirit.

I think this argument would be more convincing if it was Hedi S. or Rick O. instead of Ann...

[Faust]

please, he's just a little bitch who likes acting on the internet (and he knows i say it with love). BTW, Ann is not really fascinated with youth (as you may have gathered from her last men's show) - she really works from her life, and she is not young. These days she is interested in maturity. You know she has a picture of Leonard Cohen in her office, and she thinks he is beautiful.

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Alright, i concede my argument as I haven't looked into Ann and her archives very deeply except for recent shows and what I see in stores. Yeah the majority of her latest presentation was focused on the beauty of age....interestingly enough, Ann's work has struck much more of a nerve in relating to the younger fashion consuming crowd in their teens/20s than Yohji's work has. On the forums, lookbook, etc. it's not uncommon to see someone young appreciating and wearing Ann's work extensively, less so with Yohji. I don't really see one as being particularly more 'mature' in their overall vision than the other - they are probably on the same level of mastery as far as the fashion world goes.

but blah - at the end of the day - everything looks better on older people. they don't care any more.

[Faust]

True about Ann staying relevant with the new gen. I accept full responsibility for that.

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And everywhere to be found in her references. Not that "baby" or anyone else has only one dimension...

Not at all, and at least three dimensions was mentioned ...

Anyways, it's more this way of thinking of Demeulumeester, which
is a reducibility, quite similar to that found in Psychoanalysis!

[Faust]

Not at all, and at least three dimensions was mentioned ...

Anyways, it's more this way of thinking of Demeulumeester, which
is a reducibility, quite similar to that found in Psychoanalysis!

Instead of hermeneutics, we need the erotics of art!

[Chant]

Instead of hermeneutics, we need the erotics of art!

These days she is interested in maturity. You know she has a picture of Leonard Cohen in her office, and she thinks he is beautiful.

She likes her too.