Random fashion thoughts

[dieworkwear]

As an aside, MMM GATs are apparently being counterfeited in China. For some reason, I'm surprised. Doesn't seem like something that would have a big market (at least for counterfeits)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Martin-...74?pt=UK_Men_s_Shoes&var=&hash=item4ad76a064e

 

[Parker]

It's a replica of a replica.

 

[Baron]

Not a bad knockoff at that

 

[NaTionS]

Not surprising. There's knockoff Rick dunks coming out of China too.

 

[stevent]



As an aside, MMM GATs are apparently being counterfeited in China. For some reason, I'm surprised. Doesn't seem like something that would have a big market (at least for counterfeits)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Martin-...74?pt=UK_Men_s_Shoes&var=&hash=item4ad76a064e

Maybe leather quality better on these than the MMM version?

 

[nowiremember]



Leaving for Chicago tomorrow for Pitchfork festival; any stores/restaurants/bars I should go to? Never been to Chicago before

I went to Pitchfork a couple years ago and I hung out at Big Star each day before going to the festival. Cheap tacos, whiskey and beer.
Depending where you are staying, I ate at the Purple Pig which is right on Michigan Ave. It was a good spot. I also went to one of the Rick Bayless restaurants.

 

[ghdvfddzgzdzg]

538 would tell you to eat a burrito at La Pasadita while in chicago

 

[dieworkwear]



Leaving for Chicago tomorrow for Pitchfork festival; any stores/restaurants/bars I should go to? Never been to Chicago before

If you like jazz, the Green Mill is good.

http://greenmilljazz.com/

It's the oldest nightclub in Chicago, and used to be owned by Machine Gun Jack McGurn (one of Al Capone's henchmen and the leader of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre). It used to be a really swinging and swanky place back in the heyday of jazz, but now feels kind of like a creaky, old speakeasy. Still, the acts are good and the drinks are cheap. The crowd is also a lot more down-to-earth than many of the jazz venues in NYC and San Francisco.

Lots of videos on Youtube of previous acts there, if you care to look it up.

 

[thewho13]



One day we will look back fondly on Y.Y.D.P.C. (Year of the Yoox Dreambox Promo Code)

Geez, you guys are giving me a nasty case of the howling fantods with this sort of talk.

 

[joewood]

so, it starts again

denim ban

 

[Bam!ChairDance]



A lot of Moscow is like that. I lived there for a while, and found it a bit depressing. .

Yeah, you're def not alone in feeling that way. I'm sure you've heard the theory that brutalist buildings on college campuses were designed to fill students with enough fear/depression that they'd never think about starting riots. And I've never been to Moscow, but maybe it would be dreary enough to turn me off brutalism for good.

But I dunno. I find huge swaths of concrete soothing. It was honestly surprising to find folks reacting with such revulsion to some of my favorite buildings in DC.

 

[Nolvadex]

GE moon boots?

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-16/ges-modernizes-moon-boots-and-sells-them-as-sneakers

 

[Find Finn]



Yeah, you're def not alone in feeling that way. I'm sure you've heard the theory that brutalist buildings on college campuses were designed to fill students with enough fear/depression that they'd never think about starting riots. And I've never been to Moscow, but maybe it would be dreary enough to turn me off brutalism for good.

But I dunno. I find huge swaths of concrete soothing. It was honestly surprising to find folks reacting with such revulsion to some of my favorite buildings in DC.

Brutalism is/was very popular in Brazil and they have some great examples of brutalism done right.

Spoiler: From the Architecture thread

Casa Butantã
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
1964-1966 / 2011
Sao Paulo, Brazil

"1966" orignal

2011 refurbished (done by Paulo Mendes Da Rocha himself at 83)

http://www.interiordesign.net/article/545428-The_Second_Coming.php

Atelier Christian De Portzamparc
Cidade das Artes
Rio de Janerio, Brazil
2013

There's a lot of **** going on here, and some of it is awful, but some of it certainly isn't. Its got a confident grandiosity that's actually kind of endearing to me, even though you'd have to guess it will be another failure of Brazilian urbanism.

 

[g transistor]

Obviously brutalism will look nice if it's kept up and has nice surroundings as well as good interior design. Esp the juxtaposition of brutalist architecture surrounded by greenness and natural light makes it very pleasing.

There is some of it in Atlanta and it's very dreary and depressing, pretty much you can imagine the interior smelling like 30 year old filing cabinets. I dunno, maybe it's because I've spent a time working for the federal government but I hate that style now. Nothing like waking up to go to work on a Monday and feeling like you're in some sort of Kafka nightmare the moment you step into your place of work

 

[Razele]

Edited: Moved to RP