/fa/ - Fashion

It's honestly not hard. It's getting easier, too - remember that while the role of a model in the fashion industry is basically "walking clothes hanger", we've now entered an era of "aspirational lifestyle products".

I can recall the rise of the hipster in NYC (mostly Brooklyn) quite clearly, as I'm nearing forty (LOL chinese cartoon website) and I remember seeing all these cats at underground or illegal parties that were just... dressed like fucking idiots. Fucking flourescent color blocked windbreaker acid wash jeans coke bottle glasses wearing idiots. Redhook would have eaten these people alive a few years earlier, yet there they were at a secret party they shouldn't even be aware of and they're snorting cables with yer art thots and yer straight up beautifuls, then managing to go home with 'em. WTF?

The hipster anti-cool approach worked because it briefly embodied a rejection of the things we all had long been told were cool and should want.
Authenticity is something you can't buy. Outright rejection of established ideals was, for ages, a viable way to fake the intangible notion of being real/in the know.
In the Lifestyle Product game, a model serves not so much to display clothing as they do an appealing cultural or subcultural ambassador for a lifestyle we either aspire to or are being told we should aspire to. Thing is, there are so many cultural subsets out there, and most folks really don't aspire to anything, they have to be told and/or convinced they want something (this is largely how you go about banging a never ending stream of art hoes, btw).

With no real compass for their own desires, the majority of people are suggestible to a great extent, and they end up looking for SOMETHING, anything, that's different, unique in some way, not the norm. Remember American Beauty? "I can't imagine anything worse than being average."

TLDR you can sell anything to those desperate to stand out while fitting in. And so, Pajeet here becomes a viable model.

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Such is the way of the 'core.