I Really Mean It
Veteran
I used to not like Fear of God. In fact, I'm still not a fan, finding the clothing pretentious and marketed to culture vultures desiring streetwear that fuses modern design with 90s aesthetic. Baggy and Bourgeois is how I'd best describe the style of his line's releases. With that said, though, I've been spending a lot of my quarantine time watching interviews of the brother, and my opinion of him was wildly off base.
The dude is a very thoughtful visionary whose approach to fashion sees him as a curator of the very aesthetics that were lost when whites and Asians began appropriating hip-hop fashion and turning it into what we now know as streetwear. He has a keen sense of history that spans the 80s to the present, an astute vision of what was abandoned and how it can be recovered not just as a means of profit, but as a project in the service of recovering the culture of black fashion that was stolen by whites and Asians.
I know the breh is married to a cac (or, at least, she doesn't appear to be fully black), but that aside, I stand corrected and have a newfound respect for him. I might even say that he inspires me. I'm also surprised to learn that he and I are about the same age, me being a year younger. I thought he was a lot younger, so his admiration of the 80s and 90s fashion aesthetic makes a lot more sense now.
Out of respect and as a show of support, I just purchased a pair of his Fear of God running shoes in gray:
They're not even really my style, but I'm curious how they'll look in person, and I wanted to give breh some of my money.
The dude is a very thoughtful visionary whose approach to fashion sees him as a curator of the very aesthetics that were lost when whites and Asians began appropriating hip-hop fashion and turning it into what we now know as streetwear. He has a keen sense of history that spans the 80s to the present, an astute vision of what was abandoned and how it can be recovered not just as a means of profit, but as a project in the service of recovering the culture of black fashion that was stolen by whites and Asians.
I know the breh is married to a cac (or, at least, she doesn't appear to be fully black), but that aside, I stand corrected and have a newfound respect for him. I might even say that he inspires me. I'm also surprised to learn that he and I are about the same age, me being a year younger. I thought he was a lot younger, so his admiration of the 80s and 90s fashion aesthetic makes a lot more sense now.
Out of respect and as a show of support, I just purchased a pair of his Fear of God running shoes in gray:
They're not even really my style, but I'm curious how they'll look in person, and I wanted to give breh some of my money.
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