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Sup /fa/.

I was thinking about this earlier: there's a cycle with everything related to fashion and 'cool' that could be expressed as follows:
>X is underground/nxtlvl/nowhere near the public consciousness. A few early adopters are aware and a small following develops by word of mouth
>X's small following is picked up on by a coolhunter of some description, be it a fashion writer, celebrity or whoever it is that dresses Kanye and Jay-Z. The general public become vaguely aware of X
>X becomes the benchmark for cool, others try to emulate its style
>X goes mainstream, becomes passé, the cool kids move onto something else

With that in mind, does Rick's collaboration with Adidas spell the beginning of the end? I've no doubts Rick as a designer will endure and move on to newer aesthetics, but I'm increasingly getting the feeling that what you guys call gothninja is about to explode into the mainstream. Rick's name is getting out there, more and more articles about his designs are hitting the web every day. I found a shop in Covent Garden selling what were very clearly cheap ripoffs of Rick's designs, even Zara lifted elements from the Geobasket for a couple of pairs of shoes from last season's collection. Plus the music world is predicting a goth revival on the horizon.

With this in mind, if/when gothninja goes mainstream and everyone on your street is wearing black dropcrotch shorts and long black silk t-shirts, what will the next thing for the /fa/ crowd be?

>> No.6425964

>>6425950
im prob still gonna b rockin the long tees and pod shorts knowin theyre the real deal tbh

>> No.6425963

i don't give a fuck
i wear the clothes that look good and ricks do
end of story

>> No.6425966
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6425966

it hardly works this way. good design becomes canonical.

>> No.6425981

i don't get the problem. a lot of people are going to wear all black and high fashion knock offs. so? i'm wearing all black for 7 years and that will never change.
you sound like a trend hopper op

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6425992

I hope Rick collaborates with everybody
I just want more of his fuckin baskets

>> No.6426002

>>6425981
Post fits
I wanna see your style

>> No.6426010

>>6425981
>implying you weren't emo 7 years ago

>> No.6426011

>>6425992
still waiting on thom browne x bape

>> No.6426013

>>6426002
long sleeve and skinnies most of the time

>> No.6426181

lunarcore. i'm serious.

the metallic shit supreme put out has me sold that it'll come to full force within a year or three.

>> No.6426203

>>6426181
god, good. i'm already rocking my silver y-3s and raf astronaut sneakers.

>> No.6426205

>>6426181
>people wearing metallic supreme caps
>people dressing like astronauts

>> No.6426208

>>6426205
maybe it's because i've been going on 12+ hours without sleep, but please elaborate on your post

>> No.6426219

>>6426205
>goth
>ninja
>people dressing like goth ninjas

>> No.6426232

>>6426208
>12+ hours
that means you usually sleep more than 12 hours every day ?

>> No.6426247

>>6426232
fuck, i wish
more like 7
i've been up for more than 12 hours and will be up for about 7-8 more, i'll word it like that.

>> No.6426297

OP, zara, hm and every fast fashion brand has been ripping off Rick (and all the other large houses/designers) for years. Yohji has been collaberating with adidas for an awful long time, yet he is still highly regarded. Ricks collab with eastpak didn't push him off the stage and this collab wont either. Youre most likely - and i dont mean this in a condescending way - just a bit new to the whole high fashion game and noticing more and more people wearing, for example, rick.

Cdg did a collab with fucking HM, kawakubo is still highly relevant, rick has been worn by basically every single celebrity for the past decade, etc.

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6426370

>>6426297
i haven't seen anything in H&M or topman that looks remotely like rick. they still make plaid shorts and place-based false nostalgia print tees and hoodies.

closest you'll get is all saints, which is less close to rick than it is julius, android homme, surface 2 air, geller, plokhov, etc. people think tight-fitting dark clothes with lots of zippers and pockets is rick owens. the association is made by people who don't actually pay attention to these brands or clothes. rick doesnt make anything with maximal post-apocalyptic detail like pic (demobaza).

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>>6426370
pay more attention to the womenswear, rick's biker jacket for example has been knocked off by nearly every womenswear brand with pretensions towards luxury, to speak nothing of his drape cardigans.

>> No.6426399

>>6426379
menswear is the implicit horizon of discourse on /fa/

your reply is substantively correct, but it's also like putting a chess piece on a checkers board

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6426413

>>6426399
chess pieces would clean up on a checker's board too, what an apt analogy

>> No.6426425

>>6426370

HM has put out a lot of shitty wedges and square cut draped cardigans the past years, watered down of course, but still copied from Rick.

EVERY fast fashion store does this. Monki put out an exact replica of the Damir Doma creepers earlier this year, H&M copied McQueen's prints a few years back, etc.

>> No.6426436

>>6426413
any implications my post had about relative sophistication w/r/t fashion knowledge and analysis were intentional

◕3◕

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6426456

>>6426436
*~kissu~*

>> No.6426474

>>6426456
god that's such a husband and wife kiss

>> No.6426479

Rick's high prices prevent from it being picked up by the general public id est going mainstream.

Thus the cycle is broken.

>> No.6426481

>>6426425
and you didnt even mention zara. or is it not a big thing in sweden?

>> No.6426484

>>6426479
but what about givenchy

>> No.6426485

>>6426370

http://eu.topman.com/wcsstore/TopManEU/images/catalog/64K11FBLK_large.jpg
http://4m.scene7.com/is/image/4m/dsh1602blk_01

I bought the topman one on sale for £25.

I wasn't looking for a rick knockoff. I saw this sick waxed Balmain bomber for too much money so I copped the Topman jacket and used some leftover wax for my Belstaff and it turned out pretty boss (and is so useful for this rainy summer). About a week later I stumbled across the dick ovens jacket and lolled.

>> No.6426507

>>6426479
Rickdidas is retailing for ~500 USD, plus with flash sale sites like gilt I think you'll be seeing a lot more Ricky dick among the populace

>> No.6426517

>>6426485
>404

>> No.6426521

>>6426481

I did it in the first post I made, I think?

>>6426399

When discussing personal style, yeah, a large majority of posters are men, but this thread is about the apparent demise of Rick Owens as a brand, which is kind of silly.

On that note, I didn't really like F/W 14 at all, S/S is much better but I haven't given it enough thought yet to decide what I feel about it. S/S 13 was amazing so I guess I'm a little bit bummed out he didn't go further into that direction. :V

ps. the shoes are cool as hell, dunno if they'd fit into what I normally wear, though.

>> No.6426525

>>6426507
its usually the left overs from season ago with weird sizes. I mean sure these kids will buy it, but honestly what are they going to wear with it? Slvr Cups?

>> No.6426529

>>6426485
pics of your waxed jacket?

>> No.6426533

>>6426525
You never know, Nignogs wanting to be like yeezus will cop for the brand then wear it with the rest of their shitty clothing

>> No.6426540

>>6426533
ive seen this. The SS13 cargo pants with a pair a fucking jordans and a givenchy shirt.

>> No.6426549

>>6426540
I see Rick + Givenchy with Jordans often.

Jordans are the best shoes ever, don'tcha know.

>> No.6426561

>>6426517
http://www.topman.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=&catalogId=33056&storeId=12555&productId=10809556&langId=-1&categoryId=&searchTerm=black%20cotton%20bomber&pageSize=20

http://www.oki-ni.com/outerwear/rick-owens-drkshdw-men-s-flight-black-cotton-bomber-jacket-dsh1602blk.html

here's some long ass links

>> No.6426569

>>6426540
>>6426549
Fake givenchy*

>> No.6426576

>>6426561
To be fair, literally every bomber jacket looks like that. Speaking of, how's the quality on the topman one? I wanna cop a bomber jacket for summer nights/fall but I'm not sure where...

>> No.6426587

>>6426205
Oh god those metallic caps are horrid. I saw someone on the mall wearing a full out 3m outfit, the hat, jacket and some shiny shoes

>> No.6426595

>>6425966
it does't work that way at all for anyone that's truly into fashion. but for the majority of /fa/, that's a routine cycle.