Country Living
September 28 2006 (17:50:00) US/Pacific
(0) Comments | Post Comment Hickish Aesthete
September 27 2006 (22:39:00) US/Pacific
Shirt: Paul Smith fabric, Hebei Laborers (?), Belt: Diesel, Jeans: J. Lindeberg, Shoes: Fabi, Hair: 3 dollars – massage included, Photographer: Dick Frye
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good to see your dad is keeping you busy at home.
Posted by Paul Proteus on 09/28/2006 06:42:24 AM
Hey, who’s the princess doing all of the work in the photos? 😛
Posted by anonymous on 10/05/2006 11:22:59 PM
(0) Comments | Post Comment At an Amusement Park
September 26 2006 (02:27:00) US/Pacific
In my Chinese Navy sailor shirt:
(0) Comments | Post Comment Yves Saint Laurent
September 22 2006 (11:16:00) US/Pacific
The 70s have always been my favorite decade, from a style perspective. For me, Yves Saint Laurent epitomizes the style of the decade.
These lapels are so much more masculine and courageous than the current narrow ones.
So much more flair than Tom Ford or Hedi Slimane, and not freakish like Karl Lagerfeld.
A guy that can pull-off a double-breasted suit, no?
Men had something interesting to say, stylistically in this period. Granted it was often not as pretty as the pictures above (think John Travolta), but the landscape today is boring. Outlandishness and flair were defeated by a stifling alliance of overly-democratic roughness, bourgeois obsession with understatement and taste, and the uniform of professionalism.
David Bowie is one of my other style heroes from the period, though most of his outfits pre-75 were too alienish for real emulation.
Thanks to Labelking at styleforum.net for providing these photos.
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You don’t know anything about masculine and courageous lapels.
Posted by Erica on 09/22/2006 05:30:24 PM
That comment could be considered lapelous.
Posted by Thomas M. Meaney on 09/22/2006 05:33:55 PM
(0) Comments | Post Comment The Foreigner Zoo
September 22 2006 (02:01:00) US/Pacific
(0) Comments | Post Comment Beijing Youth, Ankle Fashions
September 20 2006 (02:13:00) US/Pacific
Among Chinese punkish youth, Converse is extremely hot and so is the Dior Homme look. Before the latest cropped pants, Hedi Slimane made this bunched look popular. I haven’t seen it so much outside of China though. This fashion enables short people to save on alteration costs.
The high and the low. Note the LV socks. LV is the logo of China, much more than it is of France.
(0) Comments | Post Comment Class, Sophistication, and beauty
September 20 2006 (02:01:00) US/Pacific
Drinking straight from a bottle of Great Wall.
(0) Comments | Post Comment Recent Photo
September 18 2006 (07:40:00) US/Pacific
Here is me sitting in an outdoor cafe in dashanzi.
I also had a bit of earwax and snot to handle:
(0) Comments | Post Comment dandyism.net
September 13 2006 (02:25:00) US/Pacific
All men must take the following quiz:
http://www.dandyism.net/thejunta.html#quiz
And also take a look at their chart:
http://www.dandyism.net/Resources/Dandy%20Genealogy.pdf
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mwahah, i scored a 68!
Posted by Pescatore on 09/18/2006 02:36:26 PM
(0) Comments | Post Comment corporate serfs
September 12 2006 (07:27:00) US/Pacific
If I could stop and reflect, I might become a leftist. I know that now.
Without capitalism driving, there would be no innovation, life would not improve materially.
The primary beneficiaries are the ones who can harness the innovation or, at least, control the company holding the patents or the one still riding off unique advantages once enjoyed. Those incapable of driving innovation fall by the wayside, especially with China copying everything at low cost. (Innovation and teamwork are the two advantages enjoyed by the West outside of the historical head start that we already have)
Capitalism benefits everyone in a free market society in a trickle down way. It does not produce contentment, happiness, or an interesting life for most people though. Even as their lives improve, they feel more bored and empty – they desire more things. The main creative outlet for most people is buying the goods the corporations produce, fueling their further growth. People are defined by which brandnames they choose, how they mix their purchases. They spend their work time developing the products, and their free-time buying and using them. This is the self-propelling, self expanding consumer society in which we live. It is a good, productive thing. It always seeks greater efficiency and expansion. This expansion is fueld by the serfs aspiring to live the life of the meritocratic elite. We are aiming at perfect competition. Are people increasingly where they deserve to be in life?
Our imbalanced society is always caught between the mass of people whose lives will never improve fast enough, and those who can drive innovation and drive society forward. The poor group must be satisfied enough, but if the rich group cannot gain the most for its innovative toils, it will cease to drive society forward. Witness Europe versus America, though both are at points on a continuum. The problem also is that this consumerism leads directly to gray air, concrete buildings. The greater health and prosperity of our time relates directly to our distance from nature.
Please don’t think the relatively better air in the West is without cost. Your deadly processes are transferred to the rivers of China.
Of course, the fastest developing society, China, is also comparatively uncreative. So educational system and cultural practices are other fundamental things.
Clichéd, I know, but this is the reality for me.
I am experiencing it all first hand, being one of the serfs, has brought me a different perspective. Life is real for me. I wish education could come after experiencing the world. Or maybe I should have had more part-time jobs growing up. Education is really waisted on the young – as is the freedom Western people enjoy in college. Had I only developed more interests and hobbies needed to escape. Or made the connections which would gain me entry into the society of bohemians who supposedly live beyond all of this. Maybe there is still hope.
For now, I define myself through consumerism. This is even how we add most meaning to our relationships with others. Fueling the great train, as it goes forward.
(0) Comments | Post Comment At Pop Music Festival
September 11 2006 (05:23:00) US/Pacific
There above me is the flag of Brittany. It was the only flag on display at the pop music festival held at Chaoyang Park this past Saturday.
I am back in Beijing for the moment.
(0) Comments | Post Comment blog
September 01 2006 (05:03:00) US/Pacific
The visitor count on my blog yesterday was down to one, with six views. I think that one guy was me. Over the next week-and-a-half it is going to be difficult to update this thing. There’s some other blog called “memoirs of a loser†which seems to be updated every hour – a lot is happening in this fellow’s life.
I will be in Shanghai, Guangzhou, HK, taking around a business delegation from the Southern United States. If anybody has submissions to during my time of inactivity, please send them to me.
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