impressive. but to be honest for a guy with white skin and blue eyes its not that hard to fake your way into the fashion week.
More about being somewhat young, handsome and charismatic. White skin and blue eyes sure helps, but to some extent only.
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#82Ive always truly believed that gullibility was one of humanity’s biggest, most exploitable weaknesses, if not the biggest. You can fake your way into almost anything with confidence and basic acting. I’m reminded of the folk wisdom about simply holding a clipboard and acting like you belong can get you into private areas of 90% of companies. All the fraud people fall for, all the scams, obvious phishing, you’d think…
The number of weaknesses we have are huge. Anyone you see at the top of any hierarchy has usually mastered taking advantage of some of them.
Here is just one collection - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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#83Then again this is the world of fashion where reality doesn't matter, it's all about perception, brand and connections. His restaurant prank is even better. It would be impossible to keep up these feats for a length of time , but nevertheless it is impressive how he pulls them off.
My hypothesis is that everybody fakes their way into Fashion Week. It's all one giant LARP event that somehow spun out of control, and now nobody knows how it manages to keep going all by itself without any GMs, or how to stop it, if there were somehow an emergency that required it to not take place. Now go re-read the Verge article or watch the video, presuming that everybody is faking , and see if the hypothesis ca…
It, like the rest of the economy, is only real because enough people believe it's real for the mass delusion to hold.
We sure can do some cool things when we all delude in the same direction, though.
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#84My wife and I went to Paris for our anniversary and we didn't realize until we were there that it was Fashion Week. I am genuinely not surprised at all that this guy made it to the top. Streetwear has become so ironic because the lines have blurred between haute culture/high fashion and bargain basement designs that you genuinely can't tell what is $800 (Balenciaga Triple S https://www.balenciaga.com/us/triple-s-shoe…
> Streetwear has become so ironic because the lines have blurred between haute culture/high fashion and bargain basement designs
I was under the impression that haute couture still is its own weird world, far distanced from anything reasonable. Just look at some of the shows:
Relatively wearable Armani: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpgaJD5hISc
Random Givenchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQGbOOKpTd0
Bona fide art pieces from Guo Pei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ew-tsk8KA
(and those were just some random sampling from youtube search for haute couture)
Nobody is going to mix those up with some random cheap street vendor clothes.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kinds of shoes are you buying for 2-300 $? High quality running shoes seem to max out at ~150 and the prices are centered around 100.
> High quality running shoes seem to max out at ~150 Huh? That's not even remotely accurate. There are tons of Nikes and Adidas way beyond $200, and even more so for "collectible" sneakers, and way more so ($1000 easily) for quality leather shoes. E.g: https://www.adidas.com/us/originals-shoes?sort=price-high-to... https://store.nike.com/us/en_us/pw/mens-shoes/7puZoi3?sortOr... https://www.colehaan.com/mens-shoes?pma…
It was my mistake to interpret "shoes" as "athletic shoes" even though the example in the first post looked like running shoes. You do not need to spend more than 150 on running shoes. Boots are a different story.
Shoes for aesthetics are beyond my scope.
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#86Ive always truly believed that gullibility was one of humanity’s biggest, most exploitable weaknesses, if not the biggest. You can fake your way into almost anything with confidence and basic acting. I’m reminded of the folk wisdom about simply holding a clipboard and acting like you belong can get you into private areas of 90% of companies. All the fraud people fall for, all the scams, obvious phishing, you’d think…
I spent most of my 20s doing all kinds of things, from installing security cameras, to running cable, to on-site IT work - a lot of it in and around law enforcement (jails, police stations) - and I was often amazed at the kind of access you could get in some places just by showing up with some crimpers and a box of cat5 and telling the person up front that you're here for [whatever].
Like you said, in many situations if you just act like you know what you're doing no one will question you.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
That Balenciaga is an absurd shoe. It's the running shoe equivalent of a Gaudi hotel facade. It looks like it belongs on the cover of Yellow Submarine. The lines are crazy. The curves of the sole section near the front of the shoe are in a complicated dialogue with the curves near the back. Check those tangents, man. If you've ever used something like illustrator, imagine where the spline controls would be. Then try…
> 90% of everything is shit in regulated/safety-critical industries such as automotive, aerospace & defense, medical, etc. where people's lives are at stake, 99% of end-user facing products are fantastic and you generally get what you pay for, with some minimum level of quality and manufacturer warranty in high fashion, the politics are so vicious because the stakes are so low. and it has stirred emotions here becaus…
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? People don't routinely ID one another in social interactions.
I imagine earlier commenter suggested that fashion conference organisers should ID attendants on entry, this is a routine practice at many events. What do you mean?
If Georgio Paviani was real, it could also be a pseudonym for a real human being, in which case there would be no ID that you could show. Pretty sure Lady Gaga's driver license doesn't use that name.
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#89My wife and I went to Paris for our anniversary and we didn't realize until we were there that it was Fashion Week. I am genuinely not surprised at all that this guy made it to the top. Streetwear has become so ironic because the lines have blurred between haute culture/high fashion and bargain basement designs that you genuinely can't tell what is $800 (Balenciaga Triple S https://www.balenciaga.com/us/triple-s-shoe…
> Streetwear has become so ironic because the lines have blurred between haute culture/high fashion and bargain basement designs I was under the impression that haute couture still is its own weird world, far distanced from anything reasonable. Just look at some of the shows: Relatively wearable Armani: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpgaJD5hISc Random Givenchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQGbOOKpTd0 Bona fide…
That's also because nobody is ever going to actually wear outfits like this: https://youtu.be/a1ew-tsk8KA?t=983
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’d say that’s not quite what’s going on here. You can’t tell when someone else is wearing an $800 or $55 pair of shoes, but in my experience the $55 shoes tend to bite my heels and fall apart within the year. If you don’t care about the brand and have a middle-class income, I might spend $55 on shoes for a growing kid but $200 on shoes for myself that I know will last for years. Not saying you can’t get good shoes f…
If you live in a walkable city and you walk, there's no $800 shoe that would last you proportionately longer than $55 shoe. If you Uber everywhere or drive everywhere then it is quite possible that an $800 shoe would last 4-5 years.
Goodyear welted shoes can be resoled multiple times plus you can also glue a plastic sole over the leather one. The cost is 15$ and when you're wearing it out you simply replace it. Dainite soles are quite more long lasting than leather ones too. Goodyear > Blake > Cement.
Not only the construction matters but also the leather used in the upper. I can differentiate a 200$ shoe from a 500$ one at a glance, a good pair of shoes can be brought back to life even if they have been seriously abused. There are more durable leathers too like cordovan.
In clothing there are many garments where there isn't much of a correlation between price and quality but leather shoes and jackets isn't one.