I'm allover-printed to death. Hoodies, hoodies, and more hoodies-how many more streetwear lines can we take? They say hip-hop is dead, and in that argument, people always give props to the originators. In the fashion world, we'd say, let's give props to Supreme and Stüssy. And you gotta give Bape props. People say the concept of being cool should be anti-the-establishment. The reason why people dis Bape is because they are so big that now they are the establishment. Like Gnarls Barkley now isn't the same as when people were just emailing the song. (Side note: I can and can't believe that Gnarls Barkley didn't win the Grammy.)

Grown and sexy is dead.  Enough already with the fuckin' three-piece suit. Ok, fam, we realize that you went up to the 5th floor at Barneys instead of stopping at the 4th. Cool. No more open bow ties stuck perfectly on your shirt with your vest! The grown and sexy movement is over with, rest in peace. I don't even know when's the last time I wore some hard bottoms. At what point did we become the bougie muthafuckas at the black-tie affair? How far dressed up are we gonna go?

Moving forward. Gray jeans are the end-all, be-all right now. Dior pants in general-last year, Dior annihilated the game. Not that they're new, but my favorite designers are Dries Van Noten, Martin Margiela, and Alexander McQueen. They're incredible if you have a surplus of money, but to me the true geniuses of fashion are people like Curtains  (the Brooklyn rapper), Chris Julian (owner of Fruition in Vegas), and, of course, Taz Arnold of Sa-Ra. Those three are at the forefront because they mix-and-match vintage and archive pieces to develop their own new styles.




Jacket: Phenomenon
T-shirt: Crooks & Castles x G.O.O.D. Music

Denim: Dior
Shoes: Bape

Watch: "Old School" Digital Seiko


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