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Living the Lo Life: A Journey From Collecting Comics to Vintage Ralph Lauren
"As a teenager in New York City, I became obsessed with collecting and rocking vintage Polo Ralph Lauren gear. My whole crew shared in the obsession, too. People often ask what we did before we fell in love with Polo, and for some, the answer was comic books — as strange as that might sound. But the two interests share commonalities, not only in terms of having distinct aesthetics and inspirations but, most importantly, their scarcity and the sense of community that surrounds them."

via: Highsnobiety

Why TV T-Shirts Have Become the New Band Tees
"Graphics such as the Rolling Stone’s tongue and lips logo and Guns N’ Roses’ revolver motif are some of the most recognizable band T-shirt’s to date. But, with the popularization of streaming services such as Netflix and Prime Video, TV shows have become the unlikely competitor, offering an acceptable and fashionable display of telly fandom. A Bazinga Big Bang Theory T-shirt from Amazon. Photograph: PR
With the third installment to Netflix’s ultra-successful Stranger Things released on 4th July, clothing brands have latched on to the show’s fanbase. Following May’s H&M x Stranger Things collection, Levi’s released its own collaboration on 1 July, along with Nike, whose latest Stranger Things rollout arrived the same day, joining Topshop and Pull&Bear who had previously partnered with the supernatural show."

via: The Guardian

"I Really Feel Most Comfortable in Prison": A Hedge Fund Ex-Con Finds it's Hard Coming Home to Greenwich
"In early 2006, before the indictment and the headlines, before he was abandoned by most of the people he knew, Joseph Skowron III and his wife, Cheryl, were living in a tidy three-bedroom ranch home in Greenwich, Connecticut. In the early 20th century, Greenwich attracted flocks of industrialists and their descendants—Rockefellers and Morgans, beneficiaries of Carnegie Steel—who built manor homes on generous acreages. Always prosperous, the town was in the midst of another boom, and Skowron, who goes by Chip, was a member of the town’s new elite, a partner in a hedge fund called FrontPoint Partners. Since 2000, drawn by Connecticut’s relatively low taxes, the hedge funders had all but taken over Greenwich, occupying much of its office space and replacing its stately Victorians with garish mansions, priced to move at $15 million. As 'Vanity Fair' observed at the time, 'The people who can afford to live in Greenwich these days run hedge funds'"

via: HIVE

The Mystery of Davé
"PARIS - In the summer of 1998, this newspaper ran an article about a restaurant here.' The first rule of fashion is that if something is fashionable, it is doomed to become unfashionable, especially if it is fashionable with the fashion crowd,' the article read. But, it said, there was one exception: 'Davé.'I wrote that article, and it turns out I was wrong. Davé (pronounced Dah-VAY), a Chinese restaurant on the Right Bank that for years—no, decades—was Fashion Central, eventually did fall out of fashion. So much so, that when Davé closed in February 2018, and its owner, Davé Cheung, retired, no one really noticed."

via: The New York Times

Male Musicians Are the New Influencers
"A few months ago, Lil Uzi Vert starting balling out on Instagram. Uzi has always been a force of fashion, but suddenly he was posting carousels of fit pics, highlighting the accessories, shoes, and various angles of his complex outfits. He posed with it-bags, wore head-to-toe Gucci, and mixed the hottest new collabs with inner-circle merch, like the Chanel x Pharrell terry cloth bag with a Beyonce Homecoming sweatshirt. Like the rest of the world, celebrities have gotten more comfortable with posting selfies and sharing glimpses of a 'realer' them, but Uzi’s new attitude on Instagram seemed to suggest something more than social media fluency. He’s showing off his grails in the same way that influencers boast about their enviable wardrobes. He even added 'No stylist' to his display name!"

via: GQ

The Asian-American Streetwear Legend who Helped Nike Change Sneaker Culture
"A few months ago, Lil Uzi Vert starting balling out on Instagram. Uzi has always been a force of fashion, but suddenly he was posting carousels of fit pics, highlighting the accessories, shoes, and various angles of his complex outfits. He posed with it-bags, wore head-to-toe Gucci, and mixed the hottest new collabs with inner-circle merch, like the Chanel x Pharrell terry cloth bag with a Beyonce Homecoming sweatshirt. Like the rest of the world, celebrities have gotten more comfortable with posting selfies and sharing glimpses of a 'realer' them, but Uzi’s new attitude on Instagram seemed to suggest something more than social media fluency. He’s showing off his grails in the same way that influencers boast about their enviable wardrobes. He even added 'No stylist' to his display name!"

via: South China Morning Post

How Idris Elba Became the Coolest Man in Hollywood
"He’s smooth—obviously. And tall. An hour into meeting him, I can’t help but continue to notice as much. We are deep into a conversation about growing up black and British in the ‘80s and wanting to be a movie star: what that must have felt like to young Idrissa Akuna Elba, the first-generation working-class son of Ghanaian and Sierra Leonean immigrants, who’d grown up in Hackney and East London’s Canning Town, areas where the far-right National Front party had strongholds. It’s a complicated history. 'Needless to say,' he tells me, 'if you were black and living in Canning Town, you were probably subject to racial abuse and getting chased down the street by people calling you a black coon.'"

via: Vanity Fair

The Men's Show Were All About Horticulture—But Why?
"On the surface of things, the worlds of fashion and horticulture seem at odds with one another: the glamour of the former being the antithesis of the literal grit of the latter. It’s hard to imagine two more different sights than the beauty of an haute couture fashion show and the mud and mess of your everyday back garden. Both however belong – in varying ways – to the visual arts; both are concerned with form, shape, line, colour, value, space and texture; both belong to the pursuit of beauty – a pursuit which stretches back to the very dawn of human civilisation."

via: AnotherMan

Why Spike Lee’s "Do the Right Thing" Is Still Essential Viewing in Trump’s America
"Spike Lee’s seminal 'Do the Right Thing' is a film with several enduring legacies: it’s a movie that one prominent white critic predicted would cause riots; it’s a movie that, despite being hailed as the year’s best by the likes of Siskel & Ebert, was infamously snubbed by the Oscars in favor of the retrograde Driving Miss Daisy; and it’s the movie Barack and Michelle Obama saw together on their first date."

via: The Daily Beast

Lessons from Hypebeast's Year of Explosive Growth
"Advice to struggling media companies: write about sneakers. Hypebeast, the unflappable online destination for sneaker enthusiasts who hold Off-White and Supreme in equally high regard, has seen revenue and profits soar in recent years as it has transformed from a blog that exemplified the rise of streetwear into a global destination for news and shopping. The publisher is riding high on a wave of mainstream interest in limited-edition sneakers, graphic T-shirts and hoodies and the culture of hip-hop and skateboarding. Readers—including a growing number in China—are flocking to the site, many to shop from Hypebeast’s online store."

via: Business of Fashion

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