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

Post by Gokenstein » Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 12:18 AM UTC

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> formal or semi-formal clothes, Are you actually referring to formal - formal (=full dress, ie morning dress/Cutaway (day) and white tie/tailcoat/Frack (eve)) and - semi-formal (=half dress, ie stroller/Stresemann (day) and black tie/tux/Smoking (eve)) attire, or informal formal (ie suits)?

Er, haven't those definitions been out of date for at least a decade, if not 3? If an office policy is semi formal, do people turn up in a black tie? Why are black tie parties "black tie" parties and not "semi formal" parties? IMO you've listed "opera" followed by "black tie." "Formal" would be "a tie and jacket," "semi formal" would be a jacket without a tie, or (shudder) a tie without a jacket, and then business ca…

Post by solarkraft » Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 1:01 AM UTC

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> 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…

> in regulated/safety-critical industries such as automotive, aerospace & defense, medical, etc... I don't know that I agree. I'm not familiar with with aerospace software, but I see a lot of the user-facing bits of both automotive and medical devices/software. While the bits that are safety-critical may be rock solid (I've yet to see it fail in person), the UI design, maintenance, and UX in general leaves a lot to b…

Post by lgessler » Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

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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…

> 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…

Post by saosebastiao » Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 2:42 AM UTC

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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…

Post by fhe » Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 4:11 AM UTC

InitialLastName wrote: post #80

roymurdock wrote: post #44

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> 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…

> in regulated/safety-critical industries such as automotive, aerospace & defense, medical, etc... I don't know that I agree. I'm not familiar with with aerospace software, but I see a lot of the user-facing bits of both automotive and medical devices/software. While the bits that are safety-critical may be rock solid (I've yet to see it fail in person), the UI design, maintenance, and UX in general leaves a lot to b…