leg

This is a well-known scam: you order an item, ask for a return due to the wrong size or whatever reason, and then send them one you bought on Taobao. SSENSE simply can't legit check every item due to the sheer volume of shipping and returns. Chinese shops have started combating this by putting unique stickers on washing tags that are very hard to remove. SSENSE is not selling fake items on purpose, that's for sure.

On 2/7/2024 at 10:48 AM, eidolarr said:

FWIW acronym is very iykyk in the techno scene, people will ask you where you got those pants constantly because it’s a crowd of ppl who are very into the aesthetic, often using drugs that make them more social lol.

I once spent 10 minutes convincing the bouncer that P10-DS are not gym joggers.

22 hours ago, darksadvial said:

small delam behind neck area

How can a 6-year-old jacket with delamination be rated 9/10? I sold my J28 after 2 or 3 years of wearing, and it was perfect with no flaws whatsoever. I listed it as 8/10.

6 hours ago, karakum said:

Add to that, that a large part of ACR's customers arent part of this vocal minority that we are here on SuFu or Instagram or Discord and it becomes even less clear what "the customers" actually want.

Those people are the core customers; if you respect them, they will stick with the brand and feed your hand forever. The other customers don't care; they may be into techwear today and gorpcore a year later. That's exactly what happened with all that #acrhive shit. Errolson thought this would last forever, hence increasing prices and quantities, but in reality, nobody cares about techwear anymore. But here we are, the SuFu still talking about it years later, and the other customers you're referring to moved on a long time ago and won't ever come back.

3 hours ago, mariahscarry said:

“Following the money” isn’t a bad thing

I doubt it has anything to do with money because, as you can see for yourself, the new products aren't selling well either. Haven, which carried the acronym for more than a decade, making the decision not to carry ACR anymore is very telling. I think the problem is that Errolson gave too much creative power to the wrong people without setting clear guidelines and may have become less involved in the process himself, as he did with the last seasons of Shadow Project. I'm not saying that his tastes haven't changed, but you should know your audience; even if you like wearing Balenciaga clown shoes, it doesn't mean that the people buying your jackets do. I'm 100% sure that if he had just taken the best items from the 2015-2017 season and simply re-released them as is at a reasonable price, people would be clearing the shelves. I still remember how buying a €1000 jacket with addition tape, allowing you to hide the logo, was a mind-blowing idea – that's what Acronym is all about, not 3M logos on the back or spikes on the head. He could've just looked at Visvim and followed what Hiroki is doing because he's been doing the same thing for 20 years and is still doing great. Haven still carries it, and his items are still selling out without much of a problem, even though they're as expensive as ACR.

44 minutes ago, DeadHype said:

All Spikes will be removeable by Velcro, so if you don’t like it just don’t attach it. 

The issue lies not with the removable spikes, but rather with the direction in which everything is heading.

On 11/3/2023 at 10:19 AM, KEИROИYM said:

Same vibe, same energy.

I was looking at old WW1 uniforms and accidentally discovered the most likely inspiration for the J36 jacket. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but that angle makes me think otherwise.

1 hour ago, Davidwyh1998 said:

what the fuck is this monstrosity lmao?

7 hours ago, daniel said:

sale in belfast / https://www.thebureaubelfast.com/shop/brand/acronym

the times are changing lol

2400 EUR jacket or 1200 EUR pants is in Louis Vuitton territory, and you should expect the highest quality possible (or at least on par with 400EUR Arcteryx Jacket). Yet you're here defending tags that are peeling off or crooked stitching on an item that was produced in a factory that pays 1/4 of the item's price to its workers. Few years back, Errolson answered someones question on Twitter about new prices. He basically stated that they want to pay competitive European salaries (which is great). Yet since they moved production to China, I haven't seen any slowdown in price increases, only a decline in quality. Also, I don't think that acronym hitting sales is a good thing in the long run. There was a perfect balance between scarcity and price, but nowadays nobody wants even the J28GT, which sold out in 7 minutes back in 2017. Increasing the price and quantity at the same time feels counterintuitive to me.

18 hours ago, hooper said:

center snap closure and new gravity pocket design are good upgrades imo

Incremental upgrades like that are welcomed of course. I always liked how Acronym balanced between form and function, but recently it seems that they're pushing form over function with no particular reason, except to make it look different (so they will have an excuse to push price higher, because selling exact same item for x2 price would look too greedy).

4 hours ago, hentaiyarou69 said:

E be like, let's take a perfectly good bag and make it as ugly as possible

I remember I complained about raccagni zippers being too loud for acronym, lol

On 7/4/2022 at 5:09 AM, moneytalks said:

best piece from the SS drop IMO

I just don't get whats the difference between J10 and J97 that they needed to give it new name. I think Gen 2.0 would be sufficent.

Ngl J95-WS is the ugliest jacket I’ve seen in a while

Good times