Modernism feels to me an individual's personal quest to incorporate and learn from the best of the modern and apply it to themselves - including art, clothes, music, style, design, literature etc.   It may be applied to a particular period of 'Modernism' or indeed....not.

Mod is when it evolves into a tribal, youth based thing.   It isn't/wasn't that obvious or defined, but having been through it, it feels like this.

How's your input on the JS V&A exhibition going Jim?

Probably true however my comment was a bit misleading and shit-stirring so to clarify: the debate was really about whether we're all delusional (or similar), and the protagonist was an occasional (and always welcome) visitor who seems to be attempting to convince us all of the error of our ways.

That's possibly made things even worse but whatever. The upshot is: be the change you want to take place, or however that trite, annoying expression goes. Acrilan Man is always welcome, and if he thinks it's torpid round here, with or without Jim, then he could always post more often.

In other words: I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect vintage Brooks, can you dig it.

Let me hear you say YEAH.

One of the nice things about this forum is just that it's there, through the ebb and flow of conversation, the peaks and troughs of new subjects or volume of posts.    As topics of interest arise, it bubbles up again.   

On the Neat Offensive thing - I wonder if it becomes overworked or too many people involved.   Personally, I'm not sure what comes from it.  It feels like a band releasing a greatest hits, okay it's over now, we can move on, done that.  The thing about JS is that Weller, Elms etc can come and go, we're still there, carrying on our own personal clothing creed and supporting JS.   I understand the motives are well intentioned but celebrity endorsement is short lived and I don't see any of them in the look themselves.

I'd much rather a follow up to 'The Ivy Look' had been written with a few key articles joining the threads - one of which would have been a deeper dig into Ivy in London and JS specifically.   The source material and quotes are in abundance in our forum archive.

^ You can do this by PM please.