I Really Mean It
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Couldn't do it, but do you, breh.Have a few Essential pieces along with denim trench coat + ski jacket (my 2 favorite FOG pieces)
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I Really Mean It
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StockX.
Especially now. I've scored some really nice deals on StockX, of kicks that would have either been priced much higher pre-coronavirus or are being sold for a lot more on Flight Club.
I don't know about these specifically, but I can tell you that a lot of people are desperate to sell shoes they're sitting on, and the shutdown has forced them to lower their asking price. Trust me.
The only downside to StockX is that you have to wait a couple weeks longer, since it's a broker, unlike Flight Club. The seller sends them to StockX for verification before it's shipped to you.
Its hard for me justify paying over retail. Only sneakers I paid over retail were the Nike SB Reese Forbes denim lows in 2005 for $600. Almost did the same for the What The Dunks in college (which I regret not copping)....My plug did come through or the SB Travis Scotts + Strangeloves I'm out the gameStockX.
Especially now. I've scored some really nice deals on StockX, of kicks that would have either been priced much higher pre-coronavirus or are being sold for a lot more on Flight Club.
I don't know about these specifically, but I can tell you that a lot of people are desperate to sell shoes they're sitting on, and the shutdown has forced them to lower their asking price. Trust me.
The only downside to StockX is that you have to wait a couple weeks longer, since it's a broker, unlike Flight Club. The seller sends them to StockX for verification before it's shipped to you.
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i dont own any CP but Sportswear SPA is their parent.
all of CP used to be to be made in Italy but now it's split Italy--Romania--Tunisa(Africa)--China
their textile dyeing is supposedly innovative but i never looked into it
the bespoke dyed pieces is the Made in Italy stuff...their tannery is located there.
but i would have to have it in front of me really.
i could give you an idea of thread-counts and tell you the lifecycle of the hardware (zippers, toggles, etc etc).
theres certain places reinforcement-stitches go, i could verify all of that if i had one in front of me.
a lot of times the stitching on the buttons + button-holes will tell you if a garment is compromised.
CP is above mass-market. i want to say B+.
Well, Virgil's output is
Off White is lazy, uninspired garbage that catapulted off Abloh's adjacency to Ye.
Lorenzo, at least, seems to be put effort into the design of his clothing.
i am more-so talking about Jerry Lorenzo as a person.
if you dont mind overpaying for essentials...Fear Of God mainline is fine.
but as far as Virgil goes...
Virgil is landing more punches that stick.
these Fear Of God collections come and go..
what collection is he on? FOG12? ...do u even remember FOG9?
mans is a volume shooter.
I have his Skylon F.O.G.s 
Didn't know his pops was longtime MLB Manager Jerry Manuel until last year. Dad was a legend at my high school
Didn't know his pops was longtime MLB Manager Jerry Manuel until last year. Dad was a legend at my high school
Jerry Lorenzo is hilarious, his dad was a professional baseball player and he always acts like he came from the mud and was self made 
his clothes are hypebeast trash, sorry but no adult with maturity is wearing that shyt
his clothes are hypebeast trash, sorry but no adult with maturity is wearing that shyt
Italian brand
What brands do you rate in the A range? And what are the benefits of garment dying?
hows stone island in your opinion?
sorry for the mad questions, I’ve always found the technical aspects of garment technology interesting.
I Really Mean It
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Stone Island might release pieces that are superbly constructed, but the clothing is ugly.
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
Stone Island might release pieces that are superbly constructed, but the clothing is ugly.
No breh
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I think their clothing is ugly. I couldn’t rock it.
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nah its cool
Stone Island is another subsidiary under Sportswear SPA
CP Company and Stone Island operate kinda like white-labels...they use the same factories/facilities/resources
(i.e- cotton/nylon garments assembled in China & Tunisa...later sent to Italy for dyeing & finishing.)
i like CP a little more than SI personally.
Italians take dyeing and tannery serious. it is their legacy in a nutshell.
"Italian Made Leather" basically refers to how they seal colors/dye into wholegrain hides.
i visited the Prato region of Italy last year inquring about batch production.
all the shops were full of Chinese illegals working on shoes and clothes,
but when it came time to dye the leather and do the buffing]
that was done in a different part of Italy in a tannery house by actual Italians.
they want their dyeing wizardry to stay secret lol
A+ for me is detailed construction and quality of textile used:
Tom Ford, top to bottom
Burberry's Prorsum line + the higher end Burberry BRIT stuff
Ralph Lauren...custom-fit & slim-fit on RRL and ofc the Blk & Purple labels
Android Homme's 2015 PORTUGAL collection
Filling Pieces...i toured the Amsterdam plant that makes their runners, FP is legit.
Levi's...(511, 511 Commuter, 511 Stretch, 513, 514, 501, etc etc)
only RL, Gucci, Tom Ford(business attire) and Prorsum Burberry(outerwear) givin you your money's worth out here
other design-houses have more inspiring designs but it comes with bigger mark-ups.
^^ this is where i put the Louis Vuittons, Balmains, YSLs, Margiela, etc etc
nothing was stolen you dudes perpetually cry when others get to the business aspect of things first. street wear growth was pretty organic as the urban wear scene declined. some of those companies had been around at the same time but just like music was genre specific so was fashion and "skate" brands like supreme didn't cross over till it was acceptable/inevitable. they existed parallel to urban wear. the SB wave made the convergence happen across a formerly segregated fashion landscape.
people are not going to sit and pass up opportunities so you can have a fair shot at getting to the market. the world will literally never work like this. there's parts of street wear like techwear that don't have any lineage in hip hop urban scape clothing. the convergence in fashion scenes happened around sneaker culture but even within mainstream spaces and corporations places like japan were setting trends of their own with their co.jp NIKE releases and upscaling of otherwise general releases, opting to use better materials and go for quality and even do collaborations early. in the end everyone can be inspired and build upon things it's not all copying and stealing.
as far as who some dude married, that is irrelevant and where this steers into coli retarded space. stick to the topic you started OP.
people are not going to sit and pass up opportunities so you can have a fair shot at getting to the market. the world will literally never work like this. there's parts of street wear like techwear that don't have any lineage in hip hop urban scape clothing. the convergence in fashion scenes happened around sneaker culture but even within mainstream spaces and corporations places like japan were setting trends of their own with their co.jp NIKE releases and upscaling of otherwise general releases, opting to use better materials and go for quality and even do collaborations early. in the end everyone can be inspired and build upon things it's not all copying and stealing.
as far as who some dude married, that is irrelevant and where this steers into coli retarded space. stick to the topic you started OP.
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How Fear of God Is Reinventing Luxury American FashionI 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.
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
shyt is ugly and overpriced