Controversial Opinions on Fashion

[MulletProof]

I’m gonna say just to be contrarian I think he did what a lot of other designers and white people in general do to the nth degree. Not that it makes it “right” lol but it was kinda funny looking back on it, even if I do think it was stupid slop.

It was a stupid slop but please elaborate! 🧎‍♀️ you mean like basically the charade of the average NYFW success story that is taken seriously by everyone and it IS unpopular to trash aka. The Row…?

Not controversial at all, but I will sometimes look at the ig of the dumb LA dealers, the Westside fckboys, the party promoters and the occasional nameless ‘model’ (who in reality was always an escort) Virgil validated and rebranded in Paris as a circle of promising new talent, to push his image of being in touch with youth and having his hand on the pulse of a generation and whatnot, and they’re all back to what they always were (finding peeps for the trashy nightclubs they promote) and.. 🫢.

 

[vogue22]

It was a stupid slop but please elaborate! 🧎‍♀️ you mean like basically the charade of the average NYFW success story that is taken seriously by everyone and it IS unpopular to trash aka. The Row…?

Not controversial at all, but I will sometimes look at the ig of the dumb LA dealers, the Westside fckboys, the party promoters and the occasional nameless ‘model’ (who in reality was always an escort) Virgil validated and rebranded in Paris as a circle of promising new talent, to push his image of being in touch with youth and having his hand on the pulse of a generation and whatnot, and they’re all back to what they always were (finding peeps for the trashy nightclubs they promote) and.. 🫢.

Wait who are those people, can you name names? I remember Virgil hanging out with lots of rappers but not that.

 

[99 Percent Polyester]

I doubt most of the new influencers know anything about fashion in the 30s, 40s or even 80s nor are they interested in it. Fashion made its last *boom* in the late 90s, also the camera quality was much better, you could record runways or even certain events. One cannot say the same for the decades prior the 90s. As for the 00s, most of the new influencers experienced it as children and just want to go back. Plus it's more culturally close to the 2020s.

idk, flappers kinda had ts on

In all seriousness, it might be a generalization but I don’t think most new influencers are even familiar with fashion in the 00s 💀 To be fair though, some earlier stuff is not easily findable or is behind a paywall and even finding documentation doesn’t mean you’ll have the context necessary to understand the importance/significance.

Even now, when I see stuff on Grailed or Insta and try to find more info to see what collection/year it’s from I’ll run into 404s or nothing at all.

 

[blueorchid]

To be fair, all the good vintage clothes from the 1920s to 1940s were probably purchased in the 1970s.... during the 1930s/1940s/art deco "revival" in fashion. What's left from that era for us "youngsters"?

 

[Lola701]

Sometimes, I think the state of fashion magazines would actually be worse if Anna wasn't around. This is an opinion that's taken me a long time to come to.

That’s an intriguing take!
Please tell me more because she is partially responsible for the state of fashion magazines today.

 

[MulletProof]

^ it’s called Stockholm Syndrome!

Reminds me of this old Russian lady I once talked to, her morale was so on the floor she was like 'Russia is like a big, untamed beast, we're children, we need a father figure like Putin' 🥴.. imagine thinking none of the millions of citizens for the past 25 years are capable of running their country effectively and better than an old-timer who was on the USSR payroll lol.

It will be bad without her, before it gets better, if it gets better, because her grip on the industry and knack for monopolistic practices, has weakened it to the point that it even makes it an easy target for someone worse to replace her. I do think her lobbyist nature makes it hard for someone to take over and continue these connections flawlessly so here's hoping that her departure does mark the end of the grotesque neoliberalism in fashion that she's come to represent.

 

[blueorchid]

@Lola701 Okay... maybe @MulletProof is right about it being Stockholm Syndrome.

 

[susseinmcswanny]

It was a stupid slop but please elaborate! 🧎‍♀️ you mean like basically the charade of the average NYFW success story that is taken seriously by everyone and it IS unpopular to trash aka. The Row…?

Not controversial at all, but I will sometimes look at the ig of the dumb LA dealers, the Westside fckboys, the party promoters and the occasional nameless ‘model’ (who in reality was always an escort) Virgil validated and rebranded in Paris as a circle of promising new talent, to push his image of being in touch with youth and having his hand on the pulse of a generation and whatnot, and they’re all back to what they always were (finding peeps for the trashy nightclubs they promote) and.. 🫢.

Yeah I mean that, like The Row, he just took a bunch of stuff that was already there are repackaged it into a brand in a smoke and mirrors type way. And also being a very charitable advocate for the devil, I will say the way he talked about his 3% rule or whatever kind of had me thinking he took on a very vague cheeky idea of colonialism in his "work". In the end it was what it was, an adhd lowlife consumerist dump pile, and I did feel for people like WVB when they were upset (and rightly so), but I just thought it was funny for how long westerners have been taking stealing destroying, they let in a black guy to just do it all to them lol. They were all soooo angry about it.