# Derelicte: No longer a joke from Zoolander **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904 "2009-11-01T02:05:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904/1 "2009-11-01T02:05:32Z")
[Turns out that fashion designers in Sydney are producing “Homeless Chic” clothes](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,26285926-5007192,00.html)for the 2010 winter season. All I can say is that I hope no-one invites the Prime Minister of Malaysia to the launch… ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904/2 "2009-11-01T02:37:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904/3 "2009-11-01T05:28:03Z")
You can derelict my balls! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904/4 "2009-11-01T05:30:03Z")
Isn’t this old news? I’ve heard of designers doing hobo chic a while ago. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904/5 "2009-11-01T06:59:24Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904/6 "2009-11-01T17:04:07Z")
IIRC, last year Project Runway was won with a derilicte line ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904/7 "2009-11-01T19:13:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904/8 "2009-11-01T21:33:25Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > 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! ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904/9 "2009-11-02T02:40:01Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > You can derelict my balls! No thanks, I can derelict my own balls! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904/10 "2009-11-02T03:46:19Z")
> [@](#): > > “Especially in the city, you pull up at a set of lights and - I know this sounds bad - but you’ll see a homeless person and they’ll just look so good, or you see a little old lady and she looks awesome 'cause she’s got something going on,” said Jamie Blakey, of label One Teaspoon. 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!” ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Salt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@Bacon\_Salt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Salt)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904/11 "2009-11-02T04:18:07Z")
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. > [@Bosstone](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derelicte-no-longer-a-joke-from-zoolander/515904/12 "2009-11-02T04:40:31Z")
Dammit. Now “Relax” is running through my head.