/fa/ - Fashion

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>>8751018
I really, really want these Tyvek and neoprene trends to die. It's not even so much new materials as it is using unintended materials - which, by all means, I'm too much of a Margiela* fan to protest at that. But have it make sense somehow. Have a reason for it.

UEG, who I think started it with the Tyvek, might have a reason for it - but it's a garbage reason: to the extent its manifesto is coherent philosophy it's retch inducing. It's the 2010s and people are still talking about cleanliness and purity, *and* yoking it to basic bitch takes on the ephemerality of life, and using postal envelope materials that degrade to turn all that into garments? Like no. No. Cleanliness and purity are death concepts, and any actually lucid conception of ephemerality in the 21st century has to not be so perennially and personally weepy; to be so is actually a shirking from the realistic prospect that we will live to participate in the extinction of our species, and the certainty that our way of life, "lifestyle," will become impossible. It acts like personal death, the most boring and basic thing, is the sole necessity facing human consciousnesses right now. As if life wasn't what mattered.

Garments like that piss all over time, over what we face. They just fall apart. Every last generic sweat chamber Gore-Tex jacket turned out today is a precious thing, because in thirty years we probably won't be able to make ePTFE membranes, but with luck and/or good construction it might still be keeping one of us dry and alive. And, conversely, objects actually designed to wear into themselves, to take on a patina, to wear and *last* - they're valuable, too, because they show their duration and their experiences, the most reliable sustainable source of meaning we have. Accreted life.

*Pic is MMM Line 0 (Artisinal/couture) A/W '06. The jacket took 103 hours to produce and sold for $15k.