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Well, there's a huge difference between runway/editorial fashion and mainstream/retail fashion.

Mainstream/Retail Fashion will only go as far as the market will go. As long as people stay buying and stay responding to the ideas, image, and trends it'll just keep going. No one was buying $100 jeans 5-10 years ago, Luxury brand denims from the 1990s were just verging over the $100 limit. Now it's a common establishment that premium/designer denim has to start at 100~ and luxury denim cost just as much as a tailored suit now.

Runway/Editorial Fashion is insane. How far will it go? However far someone can think. Comme Des Garcons, designer Rei is pushing it on another level - did you see that pink panther line from last year? That shit was just plain silly, who in the right mind would ever buy that. However it makes for great Runway design. The Dior Hommes WWII reference stuff was another example of it, but in reality theres at least one or two designers a year who really push the whole german soilder fashion design stuff. Alexander McQueen & Dolce have both put out series recently with in the last few years that reference that era.

I'm mostly dissapointed in the "Street" wear/brand/culture designers for not really trying to think outside of the mainstream. Since most of these brands are all about "ANTI-ESTABLISHMNET." Only people I see really doing unusual stuff is Leroy Jenkins and Artful Dodger (I know theres more, so don't be like oh you ain't seen x,y,z.) Smaller botique brands are doing cool stuff to but it's not really stand out, i.e. Surface2Air & The Craft.

Maybe alot of these "garage" labels will up the ante for fashion, since we're all becoming more fashion conscience. We all want to be unique and still tasteful.

--- Original message by baskew on Feb 16, 2006 10:14 PM

last time i checked, a tailored suit cost $2000 and up, and luxury denim $200-500 not counting bespoke 45rpm

--- Original message by RobbertJan on Feb 17, 2006 06:51 AM

even evisu has jeans that go over 1,000$ theres a few labels out there that sell for that much. HL private label stuff is well over that... Gucci Genuis jeans are around 3,000$ and Escada Denim well... thats just on some ol' retarded shit...

again, retail denim is anywhere between 2-500~ thats what you call "luxury" denim. It's not really that luxurious, its just about labels, advertising, and trends and what makes you feel good as a consumer.

So yes, Denim can cost more then a tailored suit.

No people were not buying $100+ jeans 5-10 years ago. (Don't mistake this for it not exisiting, people just weren't shelling it out on the level they are now.)

This pseudo denim hype is something thats only really happened in the last 5 years on a RETAIL level. Do you realize how many "new" denim brands have entered the market, even on a male only side because of this denim hype? Tons, theres a new brand everytime I go into saks with a sign that says "NEXT GREAT THING."

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Huh? Uhh...yeah. It logically follows, does it not?

--- Original message by chromesquared on Feb 16, 2006 10:00 PM

hah, didn't read the post above yours.

sorry.

www.baskew.com

Well, there's a huge difference between runway/editorial fashion and mainstream/retail fashion.

Mainstream/Retail Fashion will only go as far as the market will go. As long as people stay buying and stay responding to the ideas, image, and trends it'll just keep going. No one was buying $100 jeans 5-10 years ago, Luxury brand denims from the 1990s were just verging over the $100 limit. Now it's a common establishment that premium/designer denim has to start at 100~ and luxury denim cost just as much as a tailored suit now.

Runway/Editorial Fashion is insane. How far will it go? However far someone can think. Comme Des Garcons, designer Rei is pushing it on another level - did you see that pink panther line from last year? That shit was just plain silly, who in the right mind would ever buy that. However it makes for great Runway design. The Dior Hommes WWII reference stuff was another example of it, but in reality theres at least one or two designers a year who really push the whole german soilder fashion design stuff. Alexander McQueen & Dolce have both put out series recently with in the last few years that reference that era.

I'm mostly dissapointed in the "Street" wear/brand/culture designers for not really trying to think outside of the mainstream. Since most of these brands are all about "ANTI-ESTABLISHMNET." Only people I see really doing unusual stuff is Leroy Jenkins and Artful Dodger (I know theres more, so don't be like oh you ain't seen x,y,z.) Smaller botique brands are doing cool stuff to but it's not really stand out, i.e. Surface2Air & The Craft.

Maybe alot of these "garage" labels will up the ante for fashion, since we're all becoming more fashion conscience. We all want to be unique and still tasteful.

www.baskew.com

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These pics dont really do justice to these glasses. You really gotta go into a store and hold them in your hands and try them on in order to fully appreciate them. Here they just like every other aviator out there, but trust me they're not. Whether or not they're worth the price is another matter I suppose....maybe one day.

--- Original message by chromesquared on Feb 16, 2006 08:59 PM

Chromehearts?

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I make clothes & freelance art direct for advertising agencys.

--- Original message by baskew on Feb 16, 2006 09:10 AM

bradley? o;

--- Original message by mass on Feb 16, 2006 12:10 PM

hermies!

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I make clothes & freelance art direct for advertising agencys.

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