/fa/ - Fashion

There's too much to comment on here so i'm not going to quote anything but this is a blanket reply to the whole thread.

No, cyberpunk does not equal techwear, and ideally, yes, cyberpunk would get it's own thread, but unfortunately not a lot of people understand what is so great about cyberpunk, and the little media that does understand makes a thread in fashion, while justifiable, somewhat implausable. Mike Pondsmith (Designer of Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop board game and a guy who "gets" cyberpunk) often refers to a quote by william gibson about how the street finds uses for technology, and I think that's a good way to look at it.

That having been said, William Gibson is a hack. And like another poster said, PKD is also a pretty lousy writer. Fortunately, Cyberpunk takes the good and dumps the bad. The GitS movie from 1995 is awesome and "gets" cyberpunk, but it's just a movie and it's hard to justify the popularity of an entire outdated genre on a single movie and a single book. So when you go looking for more cyberpunk stuff I think you're essentially doomed to leave cyberpunk and go to softer sci-fi at large, i.e. deus-ex, the matrix, ect. which is fine but I wouldn't say they are pure enough. In the 80's and early 90's, punk aesthetic still had a lot to do with cyberpunk, and that remains today, but since punk aesthetic is dead, it's hard to say anything else, i.e. techwear is really truly cyberpunk