Turns out that fashion designers in Sydney are producing “Homeless Chic” clothesfor the 2010 winter season.
All I can say is that I hope no-one invites the Prime Minister of Malaysia to the launch…
Well, it’s not all that new, honestly. How long have pre-faded and pre-ripped jeans been hot items? This is just taking one tasteless step further.
You can derelict my balls!
Isn’t this old news? I’ve heard of designers doing hobo chic a while ago.
Possibly, but it’s in the news here now and I thought people might enjoy a discussion on it all the same.
IIRC, last year Project Runway was won with a derilicte line
You are so poor. Your sweaters have holes. It is beautiful. Beautiful and tragic. I shall commemorate your tragic beauty by selling a sweater with a hole in it for two thousand sad American dollars.
I’ll sell you my cashmere sweater that has lots of holes in it. Two hundred sad American dollars. A bargain!
No thanks, I can derelict my own balls!
What the fuck? Yeah, I know the first thing that goes through my head when I see some scrawny, dirty, ragged-holed, snaggle-toothed lady standing on the corner with a sign begging for handouts is “Man, that is so hot, I gotta get me soma that!”
Didn’t Ben Stiller say something to the effect that after Zoolander came out, people in the fashion world were asking him all sad-faced why he hated fashion people? Proving that they have no sense of humor?
So now they’re just proving they have no sense of irony. Or perhaps that they just have no sense of taste.
I dunno, I always felt that the whole pre-distressed thing was co-opting DIY culture, not homelessness. I mean, it’s still tacky, but not in a cruel way.
On the plus side, all my ragged-ass 7-year-old T-shirts are cool now.
Edit: the article mentions a nod to Zoolander, so maybe they do have a sense of irony.
Dammit. Now “Relax” is running through my head.