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How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

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Re: How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

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Post by coldtea »

bhandziuk wrote: post #85
coldtea wrote: post #39

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> 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.

>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.

Well, in my here parts, sneakers (which can easily go in the $200+ and even multi-$Ks for pure aesthetics/vintage) still count as "athletic shoes".

Re: How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

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Post by coldtea »

chaostheory wrote: post #56
coldtea wrote: post #36

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Which why the parent qualified "for a functioning society".

You can have a low trust society that still functions. They have existed for thousands of years. They exist today.

"Functioning" implies some quality criteria beyond mere existence...

We don't look at a law of the jungle society and say "this is a functioning society" (even if technically it might be true: it does perform some functions).

Re: How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

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Post by barry-cotter »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #53
StrictDabbler wrote: post #31

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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…

I don't think anyone wears those shoes. They're just for sneakerheads to collect. Then it's just a game of telling people what they should desire.

Sneaker heads buy Nike, or at a push Adidas. Sneakerhead.com has no results for Bakenciaga. It’s been a long time since the publication of Where'd You Get Those? 10th Anniversary Edition: New York City's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987, but sneaker heads are about limited runs and artificial scarcity, not expensive shoes anyone with money can get.

Re: How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

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Post by cf498 »

bliblah wrote: post #59

Reminds me of when someone got backstage to the Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather press event and filmed the process. source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PL1BC1s8CQ

Reading this, I have to mention Jayson Streets social engineering talks.

I am still sad that the superball walk in with a ladder was fake.

Re: How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

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Post by dorkwood »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #53
StrictDabbler wrote: post #31

Earlier 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…

I don't think anyone wears those shoes. They're just for sneakerheads to collect. Then it's just a game of telling people what they should desire.

I only found out about Balenciaga recently, and since then I’ve seen two people wearing their gear: a young guy wearing their shoes, and a young girl wearing one of their sweaters. My theory is that they’re status symbols for kids with rich parents.

Re: How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

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Post by buboard »

logfromblammo wrote: post #54
buboard wrote: post #23

Then 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…

you re right, but the article says one of the persons was actually italian and he just nodded and "asked them to switch to english so his photographer can understand". which makes it even more brilliant

Re: How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

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Post by notyourday »

notyourday wrote: post #73
klodolph wrote: post #22

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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.

It is too bad that the reply to this message got [dead]'ed because it contained the typical mistake that people make when talking about "fixing" something - the gist was that for $15 it is possible to replace the sole of a $55 shoe.

Here's the thing:

$55-$200 shoe can be had at TJMaxx or Marshalls for $25. Quality sole replacement is claimed to be $15. That's not really correct - it is closer to $40 in sole + labor + you need another pair of shoes while your shoe is being replaced but lets say that it is $20.

So even if there's no wear on the top of the shoe replacement of a sole would cost $20. Objectively, soles in a city would last ~6-10 months based on daily wear. This means that what we are evaluating is:

Shoe 1: $0 NRC + $25 every 6 months

Shoe 2: $800 NRC + $20 every 6 months

Man it will take a long time to break even on shoe 2

Re: How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

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Post by RealityVoid »

ryandrake wrote: post #7

Ive 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 think you are wrong in your assertion that this could be fixed by making people more cynical. I think this could be fixed by making the cost of verifying information very very low.

Re: How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

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Post by ozmbie »

InitialLastName wrote: post #83
logfromblammo wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We can do horrifying things, too.
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