Thursday 28 October 2010

voice of the people

purple mag worth noting i guess?
when the fifty dollar mag makes you sure how hip and rich you are and it involves very little actual clothing . . .

which after a glance at fashion.net recently i realize a lot of fashion tycoonery is based on tasteful soft-porn, or ironic and elegant nakedness.

it doesn't bother me especially, so jaded i am by dov charney's plastering of los angeles with underage nakedness for so many years.   but in a tasteful or witty context . . .  and then i wonder of the future, is male beauty as universal?  who will exploit men to the degree they might be lovely nackt?
http://www.purple.fr/fashion.php?i=1

what in the future of the cult of men?  in the future men will be worshipped as gods of beauty, in ways beyone the posturing of the GQ's.  it will be yoji yamamoto and viktor and rolf forever . . . and gareth pugh . . .


i fell in love with olivier zham after one sight of a new york mag pic of him, what a genius!  and then stig harder knew of him.
james oscar said the first edition of purple was shot in his new york apartment.

morte macabre
quiet drops


i love olivier zham's proclaiming himself irrelevant to the future of bloggers . . . too old for point of view . . .
bloggers . . . .
to kill them all!

i care for nothing fashion-wise lately besides worshipping saggy heroin chic and kate moss, and envying hijab and black trenches and leggings and over size tank tops and oversize black t-shirts.

when would a  prada budget come????

and that olivier positions purple as the upscale vice, the upscale charney salaciousness, the voice of the eurobourgeois, and keeps true to juergen teller's laconic poloaroid minimalism.  the kitsch holds force.
i don't know anything about fashion, except i go to it when i am sad and empty and superficial and trying to reconnect with the material world to which i feel disconnected.

existential and hungry
narcissistic and disconnected
better than dead

Sunday 17 October 2010

men who hate women

maybe dov charney should read or see men who hate women (man som hatar qvinnor)
stieg larsson viva

eh and how about gothic cyborg girls?

Thursday 7 October 2010

death from the seventh seal/ dov charney=bulimia

so utterly nauseated by the dov charney story.

"American Apparel is a sexually charged workplace where employees of both genders deal with sexual conduct, speech and images as part of their jobs," Charney's lawyers said in court documents.

at least all my creepy bosses wore clothes!!!!
http://server.finklawfirm.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=57

if one weren't too shy to leave the house yet, this might make one.  so glad the american apparel empire tumbles

oh but the behemoth is saved from bankruptcy for a while
http://www.stylelist.com/2010/10/05/american-apparel-saved-bankruptcy/

yay for credit!

the anti-sweatshop stance only goes so far when you operate your business like your retailers are sex workers . . .  hurling disgusting epithets at them  . . .

reminding me of the days when my mother explained the ironies of the benneton marketing campaign and asian sweatshop exploitation mixed with high price multi-cultural-marketing embracing clothes
http://www.theearthcenter.com/templates/firefly/archives/ffarchivessweatshops1.html

death says:  dov, you are an idiot and an embarrassment to the fashion industry!  get dressed!