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WDYWT - April 25, 2018 - Streetwear

WDYWT - April 25, 2018

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 01:09 PM PDT

Welcome to the daily WDYWT Thread!

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[ART] Found this awesome Kimono/Happi Coat in Japan and wanted to draw my fit again!

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:29 AM PDT

[WDYWT] alexa, order me summer clothes.

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 08:16 AM PDT

[ART] Reconstructed piece I made from thrifted finds

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 12:52 PM PDT

[WDYWT] F# A# infinity

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 08:52 AM PDT

[WDYWT] I walked out of my last job ‘cause the dress code didn’t allow snapbacks.

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 02:00 PM PDT

[DISCUSSION]Colorway vs Construction: an Essay on Virgil Abloh’s “The Ten”

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 06:38 PM PDT

The Setup

The announcement and eventual release of visionary designer Virgil Abloh's collaboration with Nike was unprecedented. The ten icons chosen for reconstruction encompassed nearly every genre of Nike footwear: Basketball, Lifestyle, Skateboarding, and Running, as well as the inclusion of silhouettes from separate brands under the Nike umbrella. A collection this ambitious had never before been conceived, and the overwhelming success of the project has set the bar for today's designers.

The concept behind The Ten was to take classic silhouettes rooted in culture and, quite literally, reconstruct them. Armed with X-Acto Knives and Sharpies, Abloh and his team's reimagination of the shoes employed oversized swooshes, translucent uppers, and screen printed words in quotations on soles and shoe laces, a design element borrowed from Abloh's streetwear brand Off-White. The result was a window into the mind of one of streetwears most intriguing designers, different from anything anyone else could have created. It was original yet familiar, radical yet measured.

Abloh's hard work paid off. The "Chicago" Air Jordan 1 won the "Shoe of the Year" award at the Footwear News Achievement Awards and is selling for $3,000 (sometimes more) on certified resale markets like Stadium Goods. The Air Jordan 1 isn't the only standout; the other nine pairs in the collection are all being resold at costs far over their original pricing. With the impending drop of the final shoe in the collection, Nike has shown no signs of slowing down.

The Problem

The success of the collection is owed primarily to Abloh's imagination, and Nike's willingness to let it run wild within the confines of the ten silhouettes. With that amount of creative freedom, Abloh was able to approach the conceptualization of The Ten "like another major design project. Not like a sort of, 'let's just color them up and put them back out into the market.'" The liberty he was allowed shaped the whole collection, and we would not have the shoes we do today had it not been.

However, coloring them up and putting them back into the market seems to be the exact path Nike has decided to take with The Ten, releasing more colorways of select shoes in the collection, starting with the Air Jordan 1 in "White". But what's so bad about this? Making more colorways of an incredibly popular silhouette is general practice and a perfect business decision. If there is a high demand, increase the supply. Everyone involved wins: the consumer gets more of the shoe of the year and resale markets can take advantage of the hype, all while Nike and Abloh reap the benefits.

There's only one party that suffers from countless color variations of the same shoe: the artistic value of the designs themselves. When the final draft of a shoe is first created and released, it exists in a unique moment in time similar to that of budding leaves. For just this brief period, the eyes of the consumer fall on something different from anything they have ever seen before, something untouched by alteration, something special. But taking an original design and releasing it in different colorways puts an end to that moment. By saturating the market like this, ideas that were once extraordinary become overhyped, overdone and are eventually overlooked.

The Solution

The solution to this problem is to recolor less and reconstruct more. While it may sound absurd to start all the way from the beginning every time you want to try something new, Nike has actually tried and succeeded at this before with the AF100 Collection. The idea was to bring together five of the cultures most famous personalities (one of whom was Abloh) and have each of them design an all white Air Force 1 Low. The designers shared only a color scheme and silhouette to base their new shoes off of, but from that they all came up with design elements and constructions for their shoes that were completely unique to one another, yet still retained the familiarity of the original design that they all had in common. If one shoe can be reconstructed 5 ways in the same color, can't one shoe be reconstructed multiple ways in different colors?

Thankfully, Nike is beginning to experiment with new ways to collaborate and create. The Vote Forward Campaign in 2017 gathered community members from around the world to create their own Air Max shoe from the ground up. The best design was decided by vote, and put into production for the following year. Projects like these not only give back to the culture, but allow greater input from those who aren't insiders of the design industry. Within the theme of reconstruction, collections like The 1 Reimagined take two classic Nike silhouettes and splice design elements of each into 10 brand new shoes, while still being reminiscent of the silhouettes which inspired them. The Ten paved the way for new exploration of old styles, and in order to move fashion forward, this is what Nike must keep doing.

There is an old saying that fashion is never finished, and that's true. Fashion is furthered by the pushing of an envelope, taking something old and washed up, giving it a twist, and making it new again. Right now, The Ten sits on the very front line of innovation, and for good reason. But Nike has to realize that a color change isn't what got them there, a color change isn't going to keep them there, and the line of innovation is not progressed through the easy way out.

TL;DR - The Ten are some of the most conceptually diverse and boundary pushing shoes to come out of Nike in a long time, but over saturating the market with multiple colorways of each silhouette reduces them to commonplace and takes away from the longterm value of the design. Instead of doing this, Nike should seek out more unique ways to twist something familiar into something new.

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[ART]SW 97/1 airmax inspired

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 02:11 PM PDT

[WDYWT] /watch?v=Ebt86W0EJnM

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 07:18 AM PDT

Kanye's recent tweets and his impact on the prevalence of streeetwear

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 05:37 PM PDT

So I just wanted to make a thread to get into some discussion about the recent storm of Kanye tweets. Kanye is and has been labeled as one of the celebrities who re-popularized streetwear to the point it is today, becoming one of, if not, the most popular style of fashion at the moment.

Kanye recently re-activated his social media accounts to promote his forthcoming albums, a solo album and an album with Kid Cudi. He's displayed a lot of Yeezy products from shoe designs to clothing. He's also done some motivational tweets and some highly controversial political tweets. Kanye has always been about promoting a free-thinking mindset, unencumbered by social norms and trends.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest

What are your thoughts on his recent tweets, the direction in which he's going with his clothing/shoe lines, his impact on streetwear, and his music?

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[DISCUSSION] Hawaiian / Aloha Shirts for the SLP look?

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 09:27 PM PDT

I've been seeing a lot of trending in the Hawaiian shirt department and it has caught my eye. I personally would rock this in the SLP style... Chelsea boots, Well fitted black distressed skinny jeans a longline T shirt and the Hawaiian shirt unbuttoned. However, I would personally want to really avoid the boxy fit that most Hawaiian shirts have and I definitely don"t want poor quality.

What are some brands that make such shirts? I'm seeing some great options from AllSaints and The Kooples but I am not sure how those fit. I have yet to try them, but I am hoping that when I do try them on this weekend that they are very slim and tapered to the torso. I imagine a Harry Styles sort of look.

What are your guys thoughts on this and what are your experiences with the various brands that you know of? How do they fit / feel?

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[ART] I drew u/thisistheodore

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 08:34 AM PDT

[DISCUSSION] Gildan T-shirts with minimal prints

Posted: 26 Apr 2018 12:36 AM PDT

Ey bois,

was wondering if any of you guys here know some brands or websites that sell Gildan T-shirts with minimal prints. If you've had any experience with some brands that do their own designs on Gildan T-shirts, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I thought about finding some website like Custom Ink (can't use that one cause I'm from Europe) and designing some myself but that's too much of a hassle. I'm looking for something that I can wear under an unbuttoned shirt, whether it's a denim one or regular casual one, but I still don't want it to be a blank T-shirt, but rather one with a minimal graphic or text print on it. If not minimal, then at least let it be good looking. I'm asking about Gildan T-shirts specifically because I know those are cheap and I know the L size is a great fit for a tall guy like me. I tried Google but came up with nothing.

I'm thinking of even maybe buying a few of them, like up to 5-6, but not willing to pay more than $25-30 a piece. I know that's a low profit margin for whomever does Gildan shirts at that price, but I'm not looking for any established brands or w/e, it can be whatever underground shit, I just want the product to be made of Gildan fabric.

Thanks in advance!

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[DISCUSSION]Let's talk about new streetwear brands that have potential

Posted: 26 Apr 2018 03:40 AM PDT

Yo,

I was searching google for some uncommon hoodies and I found nothing crazy, then somehow I went on facebook and got an ad from these guys called Rebelityz. No idea how the heck I got targeted but they got some pretty uncommon clothes, might be something big in the near future for the original clothing line. The site is www.rebelityz.com if you want to check them out yourself.

It seems that more and more new streetstyle brands are coming out and I'm mostly looking for crazy designs/logos and styles.

Unfortunately, it is really tricky to find some good new brands that provide quality and don't scam.

Let me know what is your favorite new streetwear brand? Maybe we can find some dope clothes!

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[NEWS] Police Crack Down on Supreme Resellers

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 07:43 AM PDT

[INSPO] TRNTO STWR MTUP: MICHÈLE LAMY

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 08:14 AM PDT

[Discussion] Kith Tracksuit Program releasing this Friday (lookbook)

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:53 AM PDT

[DISCUSSION] What streetwear shops are worth checking out in london?

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 09:27 AM PDT

I'm going to be in london for a few days, specifically Thursday-Saturday, and wanted to checkout some streetwear shops. I know there is an off white store as well as palace (that palace x adidas collection tho). Anything else worth checking out?

Please ignore the rest of this. This is just filler content to meet rule 2 which requires you to have 150 words for a post. This rule is sillier than Cam'ron's pink fit in like 2006. I'm not sure what else to talk about. How are all of you doing? I am doing well. It was cold yesterday, however, the sweater that me grandmama knitted for me kept me nice and toasty. Page 7. Enter scene. I literally have nothing else to talk about here. Its like being in high school again and having a minimum word count for a paper. Am I at 150? Who knows? Is life real? Are you real? Am I real? This is way too deep. Anyways, I'm going to wrap this up now as I feel like I've hit my limit. Stay saucy.

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[WDYWT] Do you even skate?

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 09:00 AM PDT

[DISCUSSION] Thoughts on Hawaiian / Aloha Shirts for the SLP look?

Posted: 25 Apr 2018 09:26 PM PDT

I've been seeing a lot of trending in the Hawaiian shirt department and it has caught my eye. I personally would rock this in the SLP style... Chelsea boots, Well fitted black distressed skinny jeans a longline T shirt and the Hawaiian shirt unbuttoned. However, I would personally want to really avoid the boxy fit that most Hawaiian shirts have and I definitely don"t want poor quality.

What are some brands that make such shirts? I'm seeing some great options from AllSaints and The Kooples but I am not sure how those fit. I have yet to try them, but I am hoping that when I do try them on this weekend that they are very slim and tapered to the torso.

What are your guys thoughts on this and what are your experiences with the various brands that you know of? How do they fit / feel?

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