mintcar

WEST AND WEAR

So I caught a glimpse of Kanye West today on Lower Sproul. That's what happened to DAY. :)

ps I'm so sick of the way street fashion is moving these days. It's totally stagnated, the same repetitious lines over and over. When is the avant-garde going to step up, and when will there be a designer(s) who push the future of street. Why do all the dudes in Japanese men's fashion magazines look like crackheads from Berkeley, CA? And why are trucker hats all the rage in Asia, when it is (was) an ironic (celebratory or condescending) bourgeois statement alluding to the American working class male? I hate the evolution (er, anti-progress, I mean) of these trends, and I would like to diverge into my own kind of surface aesthetic, but I'm totally broke to buy textiles, don't want to allocate hours and hours to sewing, and am just in a rut.

On a brighter note, I got a mint green halter top with a slight princess neckline, shirred beneath the bosom by a Brazilian designer at Three Goddesses on Solano. I recommend their stock. It's pretty interesting.

I'm very interested in seeing regions playing out their own eclectic flavors of style, with the rising of local("agricultural" as toyo ito would call it) taste ... and not having to pick from what branding manufacturers have to offer. I want to see more people buy their clothes from the people who make the clothes. But, I have fantasies. They're still gonna spend $150 on a pair of lame ass Von Dutch jeans that cost $2 to make.

Don't get me going on low-end Gucci bags!!! *Luxury for the masses.

Observations: more skankiness and more surface. (It's a complex web of blame). A world of female images and female non-entities. Easy to hate, easy to be seduced. Plastic surgery as a luxury good or necessity or entertainment -- "The Swan". And if you can't afford plastic surgery, get it in a shot, or a bottle.