Fashion Film: Not Too Pretentious!

Cruising the blogs again now that I'm back in classes and stumbled across this little gem:




The 11-year-old son of the filmmaker tries on YSL clothes and is absolutely adorable. For once, as The Cut on NYMag states, we aren't watching some stuck-up montage with angsty (and hungry) models. Children are the perfect way to market nowadays.

Oh, and this is beautiful:

http://www.chanel.com/fashion/8-fashion-trends-a-ballet-for-karl-lagerfeld-0,96#8-fashion-trends-a-ballet-for-karl-lagerfeld-0,96

Ballet is also a wonderful way to market stuff. What woman doesn't want to be a ballerina again as she once wanted to as a little girl? I guess childhood fantasy is exactly what we want in this hard economic time.

Hipsters

I hate hipsters, but unfortunately claim a few of them as my friends.

I like to think of myself as someone who listens to the music and watches the films, but isn't willing to sacrifice showers and soap to be counterculturalist. I'm just so square I guess.

Isn't it funny when being alternative is mainstream? Pretending not to care what people think inherently means you really do care, doesn't it? Oh, the youth these days...what I wouldn't give for some hippie circle dancing on the Green or something right about now. Instead, look at what NYU and Williamsburg have given us:

http://www.latfh.com/

Read it. You'll see why I laugh as I put off studying the French New Wave and Godard while listening to Panda Bear on full blast and sipping a nice can of PBR.

Snuggie+Sleeping Bag+

I realize it is spring, but why are Snuggies and "Lippi Selk bags" popular? This winter, I could understand why--the economy is bad, so people don't want to pay for heat and instead buy ridiculous looking blanket-sweater-poncho-things. But why now?

When I was in Paris, I also saw some pretty awesome "jackets" at Pierre Cardin. Check out this post on Gawker about Snuggies:

http://gawker.com/5216403/snuggie-wars-spread-into-shelter-category

and enjoy these pictures I took of window displays. My favorite is the red one that actually looks like a sleeping bag.