The Scene Street Style #1

[JuiceMajor]

Oh god… stop sounding all so superior!



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[lost in kyoto]

Do you mean Marissa? Yeah, she was defintely on cobrasnake/poloroid scene before it became the joke that it is now.

Oh nm Marissa is younger with long brown hair. She was in the cobrasnake when it was known as the Polaroid Scene. Never saw that girl before. The chicks on the polaroid scene/early cobra were definitly cooler and less pretentious than now- like not trying out do each other in who could be more "hipster"/"scene." IDK. It was better when Mark use take take pics of his friends (real friends) than these hanger-ons and that street rat thing Cory.

 

[lost in kyoto]

Not too many little brats shop at sevennewyork. They're kind of a big deal. Cool that you know about the shop, though. b-) Bartholomew works there. Scene kid, scene hair, and he works at THE scene shop.

Someone shoot him, already.

relevant.

Every girl needs her main gay

 

[miss6o]

Oh nm Marissa is younger with long brown hair. She was in the cobrasnake when it was known as the Polaroid Scene. Never saw that girl before. The chicks on the polaroid scene/early cobra were definitly cooler and less pretentious than now- like not trying out do each other in who could be more "hipster"/"scene." IDK. It was better when Mark use take take pics of his friends (real friends) than these hanger-ons and that street rat thing Cory.

i agree. my friend took some phtos with marks camera one night about 2 years ago.. it was so much cooler and real back then. oh those times...

 

[fashionlives]

oh this threads very kool =)

 

[allybobally]

ughhhh scene kids need to get over themselves. i love the clothing and the music, i like obscure indie bands as much as the next scenester, but that doesn't make me a better person. it's so so so pretentious.

 

[doktor avalanche]

It’s not that they’re necessarily vain – for example karl Lagerfeld is vain as hell but I don’t want to strangle him with piano wire.
I don’t even consider whining about your hair all night vain – it’s just kind of immature and oblivious. my point was just that a lot of these kids are young, often times younger than their clothing may suggest, and to not expect to much from them ( which stemmed from the whole 'kelly clarkson' thing.)

 

[xmodel citizen]

Scene music is better than the whole "scene" itself. I go to shows for the bands, not for my hair or makeup or clothing!

 

[JuiceMajor]

Same here....but I do appreciate the style. Just not obsessing over it.


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[smiles56]

Does anyone have more pics of this girl or know who she is? credit: misshapes.com

 

[La bordélique]

Model Rila Fukushima.

 

[Rightguard]

Every girl needs her main gay

1.) He is not gay
2.) He has already stated on here that he infact has girlfriend and infact she is a model. Just because some females have male friends they hang out with doesn't automatically make them gay.
3.) Finally he use to post on here but I guess he got tired of peoples petty comments and attitudes.

 

[smiles56]

thanks La bordelique!!!

 

[AlmostFamous]

yes sir. bartholomew is mah boyfriend. he works at seven and makes a great deal more than $7 an hour at sevennewyork. we do live in the city and all. and seven is kind of a big deal industry wise. w/es. But I must've forgotten how much sarcasm is lost on the internet.

 

[mass]

scene kids need to take themselves less seriously as opposed to just acting like they are.

bartholemew looks like john galliano in that picture above!

 

[fashionlives]

Is this scene style like EMO?????????????

 

[DosViolines]

source: nytimes.com

September 14, 2006
Cool, at Least for a Few Minutes

Greg Scaffidi for The New York Times
PARTY OF THREE The phenomenon known as the MisShapes: Leigh Lezark, Geordon Nicol and Greg Krelenstein.


By CATHY HORYN

IT was five minutes past 1 a.m. Sunday. The line for the MisShapes, a popular dance party held every Saturday at Don Hill’s in SoHo, stretched down the block. Fashion Week had started, and the MisShapes — three D.J.’s named Geordon Nicol, Greg Krelenstein and Leigh Lezark — had put out word that the singer Kelis was coming, along with the models Gemma Ward and Lily Donaldson.

Don Hill’s is little more than a dingy bar, but that night it was packed with art world and music stars, as well as hundreds of fiendishly dressed young people who had adopted the MisShapes style of wearing a heavy curtain of jet-black hair.

Max Minghella came outside for a cigarette. Mr. Minghella, an actor and Columbia student whose father is the well-known director, wore a blue blazer, a rumpled white shirt and jeans. He didn’t, on the surface, look like the kind of young man who would be at the MisShapes party, much less be part of the inner circle that hangs out in Don Hill’s basement.

But that was the thing about the MisShapes, he said. They don’t throw up any barriers to admission, in spite of their intimidatingly cool facade. Ms. Lezark, for whom half the guys in the basement probably nursed a serious crush, has been dubbed Princess Coldstare on the Web. But that’s not how Mr. Minghella saw them. “Geordon, Greg and Leigh are the sweetest people on the planet,” he said.

The MisShapes are, at least, a phenomenon, if not a puzzle. Mr. Krelenstein is 25; his partners both 23. The products of comfortable suburban or small-town upbringings, they formed the MisShapes almost as a fluke nearly three years ago, taking the name from a Jarvis Cocker song.

Partly because of the way they look — the men are reed thin and favor a severe bowl-shaped haircut, Ms. Lezark is a femme fatale version of Ali MacGraw — and partly because they have an entourage, they have been compared to Andy Warhol and other figures of the 1960’s underground.

Yet the MisShapes are really a contemporary idea, their status derived less from any recognizable achievement, like making art, music or films, than by their celebrity on the Internet. Their Web site (www.misshapes.com) includes thousands of pictures from their parties, documenting virtually every kind of new and bizarre style.

In places like the Philippines and Brazil, there are Web diaries and role-playing sites devoted to the activities of the MisShapes. When they flew to Miami to do a party for a boy’s 18th birthday, they found their images plastered on his bedroom walls. “He knew everything about their personalities,” said Gordon Hull, a friend of the group’s.

Mr. Hull, 29, who runs Surface2Air, an art direction, design and publishing company with offices in New York and Paris, continued: “Every five or 10 years there has to be something new for the young people coming to New York. These kids are even more savvy because the Internet came along at the same time that they did. The fact is their Web site made them big, because of the whole party-pix phenomenon.”

The group recently engaged an agent to find a book deal for their Web images. (The MisShapes make most of their money not from their weekly party but from D.J.ing events for magazines and designers.)

It is on the fashion world, though, that the MisShapes have had the most impact. This week they will select the music for either the shows or afterparties of Calvin Klein, Tory Burch and L.A.M.B, the label of Gwen Stefani. Ten days ago, they were in Las Vegas to D.J. a party at Magic, the apparel trade fair. The group has been approached by the London designer Vivienne Westwood to give creative advice for a new store here. And this past July, much to their surprise, the MisShapes’ skinny mop-haired look served as inspiration for Hedi Slimane’s Dior Homme show in Paris.

“It was so funny,” Mr. Nicol said over dinner with Ms. Lezark and Mr. Krelenstein as he recalled his reaction to seeing his style transferred to Mr. Slimane’s runway.

“It was scary,” said Ms. Lezark, who also attended the show, sitting across from Karl Lagerfeld and Elton John. “When the first model came down the runway, I said to Geordon, ‘Uh, he really looks like you.’ ”

Mr. Slimane, who is known for mining the styles of obscure bands and club scenes, visited Don Hill’s at least once, for a party in 2005 to promote his photographic book “Birth of a Cult.”

Fashion designers have long shown a vampire interest in the style and tastes of fringe groups, sucking them dry, and older houses, in particular, have depended on them for cachet with young fashion consumers. For the MisShapes, there is a danger they will lose credibility if they are seen as being in the pocket of big companies. Gawker, the media gossip site, has taken a number of swipes at the MisShapes, implying that a backlash is under way.

Mr. Nicol, who serves as the de facto manager of the group (Mr. Krelenstein works for a casting agency and Ms. Lezark is in college), said he doesn’t see a downside to working for fashion brands that have little in common with the MisShapes’ hip image.

“Gawker has been saying there’s a backlash for more than two years,” Mr. Nicol said. “But the head count of the MisShapes parties has been exactly the same, give or take 100 people. And the amount of money made at the bar is the same.”

Mr. Krelenstein added that contrary to the perception that the MisShapes are too cool for school, the D.J.’s have always taken an inclusive approach to the parties. They play all types of music, and there’s no guest list at the door. For instance, on Monday, the group will do music for a party for the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square, performing with Mötley Crüe.

“I’m really excited about that,” Mr. Krelenstein said.

Mr. Nicol nodded. “We’re going to actually be on stage with Mötley Crüe. Then we’re doing a Teen Vogue party in L.A.”

Mr. Krelenstein laughed. “Mötley Crüe to Teen Vogue.” He added, “I think that’s our tastes. And I think it’s one of the reasons we’ve been so successful. For instance, we like the new Beyoncé song. It’s not the coolest, but it’s a good song.”

But Mr. Hull, whose company designed some of the printed fabrics for Marc Jacobs’s collection this week, has his doubts, which he has voiced to the MisShapes.

“I love them to pieces but I don’t think they understand a lot of what they’re doing,” he said. “They are really young. When they told me they were doing the music for Tory Burch, I said, ‘What the hell are you doing that for?’ And they said, ‘Because she’s an important socialite.’ I told them, ‘You guys need to be smart about what you’re doing because you’re going to lose the cachet you didn’t even try to get.’ ”

Mr. Hull thinks the MisShapes can have a career after the parties wind down, as consultants to youth-oriented brands. But he says they have to be careful about the choices they make.

“I know they admire Raf Simons and Martin Margiela,” Mr. Hull said, referring to designers who have a high degree of credibility among fashion insiders, in part because they’ve kept such low profiles. “But the kids are obsessed with Hedi Slimane and Karl Lagerfeld, and that’s a totally different perspective.”

To the MisShapes’ generation, however, the underground doesn’t really exist. The Internet exposes everything in about two seconds. Alexis Page, another friend of the group’s, who develops products for MAC cosmetics, said: “Gordon derives his view from the way he and his partners work at Surface2Air. They’re very selective. Lately, Geordon has been eager that the MisShapes do other things. They are kind of everywhere at the moment, but I don’t think it’s going to hurt them.”

Certainly the MisShapes agree. A few months ago they were invited up to Sotheby’s to play music for a party kicking off a sale of contemporary Russian art. The average age of the guests, Ms. Lezark reckoned, was about 35.

“Everybody loved it,” Mr. Krelenstein said, sounding surprised himself. “People kept coming up to us and saying, ‘Do you have a card?’ ’’

This summer the MisShapes officially became a corporation.

Joe Fornabaio for The New York Times
SNAPS Geordon Nicol, a D.J. and MisShape, at a party at Don Hill’s. The guests included, in hats from left, Johnny Lato, Alexander Herckovitch and Mauricio Ianes; and the singer Kelis.

Joe Fornabaio for The New York Times
THE SCENE A performer on stage at the party at Don Hill’s.

 

[reese06]

I like the whole scene thing although I hate when some people think they are better because I'm your typical scene. But I appreciate all kinds of fashion and I do happen to love this trend at the moment. And I have a question, so the Misshapes have a party like every Saturday night or wherever at this Cobrasnake place and anybody can go? Or can someone clarify that for me?

 

[JuiceMajor]

Thanx for the article...I always thought there were more than 3 DJs in MisShapes.


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[adi]

i love how this girl reminds me of liv tyler

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