/fa/ - Fashion

internet fashion dwellers express the purest form of interest in fashion precisely because they are losers who dress themselves up and buy expensive designer brands for the express purpose of self indulgence.

it's the age old adage "all dressed up with nowhere to go". that's where the purity in it all lies, it is fashion for the sake of fashion with no other intent. i don't understand how you can say these types are obsessed with status when they are buying clothing that no one outside their small corner of the internet recognizes or appreciates and only to wear it in the privacy of their own home.

there's a real beauty and passion it it, the kid in rural virginia that buys rick owens to wear in his basement after researching and hunting for months is infinitely more authentic in my eyes than some urban dilettante fuckwad who buys the same piece having no idea who the designer is and only so he can get photographed in it at his local art charity event to feed his overbloated ego and perception that he is "on-trend".

in short, go fuck yourself.

There's nothing interesting fashion wise happening in NYC but there is still a metric ton of bloggers and press in NYC looking for something to talk about / hop on / blow up when fashion week isn't going on.

That's why you have stuff like these kids and HBA getting so huge.

NYC is an international hub and so designers from all over the world go to show there and the city has the press coverage infrastructure to match. But when fashion week is over an thdose international designers go home the NYC fashion media needs to report on something else. So they focus their gaze inward and that's when these bozos blow up.

I think the worst part is these people then think they have real talent or skill when the reality is they've simply been co-opted by a self perpetuating media machine that demands new and fresh content 7 days a week 365 days a year. All these websites and bloggers and magazines have to put stuff out. It's not like when the fashion scene becomes shit like NYC has post-recession these people get to publish less content. No, they still have to put out the same amount of content and so the bar gets dropped lower and lower until they find a story.

10 or 20 years ago these kids NEVER would have caught a break in NYC. There was way too much actual fashion happening. The press was busy covering that but these days it's all dried up and so the media is desperate for anything. So desperate that they'll go down to Soho and take street snaps of any weird looking kid in a Supreme hat and put an interview with them on page 2.

This type of shit doesn't happen in London, or Paris, or Tokyo because while also being international hubs of commerce there's actual fashion brands in all these cities with tons of both large and small brands continually producing interesting stuff to talk about year round. It's only in NYC that the media gaze has shifted from the fashion designer to the fashion fan, because there's barely enough local designers to fill a magazine issue.