@brendonmcnerney
there was a video going around earlier today with an old lady yelling racist shit to a young woman in a park & i’m 99.999% sure this is the same lady.
people thinking Margiela designed totally original footwear & arbitrarily dubbed them “replicas” is so indicative of the problem with gen z’s en masse interest in fashion. as a whole, they know nothing.
this Pyer Moss “exposé” is not scathing or disrespectful at all. if anything it’s very empathetic towards Kerby & brought to light reasons why the brand hasn’t achieved the level of success it was expected to & let’s be real a lot of us were wondering what the hell was going on…
watching white guys that wear BODE slander white guys that wear ALD is what most of straight male fashion tiktok is about. it’s like seeing someone hate on their slightly different doppelgänger.
just got an email requesting a DNA sample for a paternity test & my heart went cold for like 10 seconds. turns out they emailed the wrong Jordan Page. another JP in pennsylvania is about to have one hell of a wednesday afternoon.
Anok Yai, the model discovered at Howard's Homecoming last year after her photo went viral, got the Prada s/s 18 campaign w/o ever having walked the show. Prada is also arguably the most coveted campaign for a model to book.
lastly, a lot of people aren’t liking this public critique because they were/are rooting for Kerby. we have to let this dogmatic one-dimensional fandom go. it serves no artist well.
the internet has taught me 3 things about people:
1. people love being mad.
2. even more than that, people hate being wrong.
3. people are often mad & wrong at the same time.
Belgium lockdown rules say you can meet with up to 10 friends but it always has to be the SAME 10 friends. There’s a brand new social dilemma for the Covid-19 age. Are you someone’s number eleven? 🇧🇪 🦠
i’ve always found Kerby’s work under Pyer Moss to be on the performative side, explaining blackness for the white gaze àla Kenya Barris, & that never settled well with me. to me, his most impressive work to date was with Reebok
the next time you hear CEOs say they want workers back in the office for productivity reasons remember a wells fargo employee laid dead at her desk for 4 days after clocking in before anyone noticed.
Michaela shot down Netflix’s $1 Million deal that required her to relinquish IP rights & then fired CAA who’d coaxed her to sign because in order to profit on the backend😩. Knowing your worth and commanding it is the ultimate flex.
#FemininePower
so
@TheFader
allowed me to indulge even further into my Jorge Campos obsession. I wrote about Campos’ individuality & influence & why I think goalkeeper jerseys are a must have this fall.
peep the link 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
EXACTLY. sean is one of the biggest reasons the second hand clothing market has become so corporatized & inaccessible to many. he sells back the relics of the culture to the culture at outrageous mark ups. exactly how is that having passion for the culture?
the most personal blow thus far regarding shuttered businesses. a lot of the staff here became like family to me & this was also where i cut my teeth as an nyc dj. honored to have thrown one of kinfolks last events back in march before shutdown. truly the end of an era ❤️
“kevin can f*ck himself” is an extremely clever show about how normalized sitcom tropes would actually be extremely abusive behavior in real life. glad a lot more people are watching it now that it’s on netflix.
another instance.. i was the one that shed light on Dapper Dan being plagiarized by Gucci Designer, Alessandro Michelle. Diet Prada lifted my story (sparingly gave me credit), got all the clout & followers & unfollowed me on IG & did a takeover of Gucci’s IG based on my reporting
very honored to have my beautiful & very talented friends model my new colour plus companie tees & hoodies. big things dropping this friday at noon EST.
ph:
@Guari1x
printing work:
@LQQKStudio
compelling discourse on tiktok happening right now started by
@rianphin
& added onto by
@guyfierisuprfan
& others about how evaluating fashion is more interesting coming from individuals that can provide external context+
his ability to innovatively design within the sportswear lane seemed to be where he shined brightest but maybe it just wasn’t fulfilling to him. who knows…
to me, kith’s identity crisis stems from a lack of personality & thusly a lack of narrative. the inspiration for their designs, collabs etc isn’t pulled from anything personal or substantial. they’ve sustained off pure hype & that hype has waned significantly in recent years.
That’s my thing. I think Kith has an identity crisis. And I DO NOT mean that in a derogatory way, I just mean people love admiring the pieces but are we really buying & wearing it like that? They’re like a museum. And their visuals give that energy. Who is dressing like this
This Tuesday I’ll be releasing my first piece of apparel ever. “Advancing & Retiring Colours - a shirt by veryADVANCED”, is the first release in a series of pieces inspired by concepts in color theory & how they work in nature. More coming soon. 🍇
see i find these photos & someone else gets the love. no i don’t own these photos & yes they are on google image searches but i found, curated & brought them to a greater awareness only for someone else to be recognized for my taste. we just had a convo via DMs on IG...
all this facial harmony, mogging, & ruining of genetics talk on tiktok by young people is actually freaking frightening. phrenology & eugenics are trending way up for the youth
For a shocking number of students, the college experience means living in your car to avoid massive debt. These two students showed us how they get by while homeless and in college
to sum this all up, i’m upset that it took me the better part of a decade to stand up for myself & create standards to work more on my own terms. i’m still figuring out how but i plan on making this industry more workable for people like me.