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#1 2010-07-27 02:09:19
- Rip Rig & Panic
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The Interface: Style Over Substance
I'm often just a thieving magpie... First Elms, then our own Gibson Gardens... Elmsy was right, though, the clothes you choose to wear represent what you're choosing to say to the world around you. Interesting how navy blue cashmere and penny loafers make me feel much taller and give me greater confidence... What is it that provides a feeling of, yes, superiority? Knowledge of cut, colour, fabric, tradition, source, scarcity... Plus 'layering': the complex processes behind our look that is informed by jazz, by movies, by books, by interest in food, art, achitecture, design etc. etc. The substance is there, too, but is reserved for our private selves during personal moments.
#3 2010-07-27 06:01:43
- nouvelle vague
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
shoes and blue note ..great analogy. Well put.
'Jean-Paul Sartre and john lee hooker'
#4 2010-07-27 13:43:27
- heikki k
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
^very. these kind of things reveal the greatness of this forum. you donät read these anywhere else in the web, do you.
#5 2010-07-27 13:46:33
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
'Everything had to have a deep meaning, a double meaning'.
#8 2010-07-27 16:08:59
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#9 2010-07-27 16:13:57
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
The Dandy is dead.
The Stylist now reigns.
#11 2010-07-27 16:19:13
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#14 2010-07-27 16:27:26
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#15 2010-07-27 16:27:47
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
The Stylist is the servant of The Style.
#17 2010-07-27 16:32:41
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#18 2010-07-27 16:39:26
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
Striving is good.
Effort is good.
The substance of The Style is nothing to do with The Stylist.
The Stylist is the servant of The Style. His personal authenticity is nothing to do with The Style. His vanity is nothing to do with The Style.
His job is to serve.
#19 2010-07-27 16:41:40
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#20 2010-07-27 16:42:37
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
The Style is God to The Stylist.
#21 2010-07-27 16:47:39
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#22 2010-07-27 16:57:27
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
The Stylist has to be a bit of a Mad Monk to really be A Stylist.
He has to be a zealot.
He has to be focused.
Maybe what you are talking about is just somebody who puts on clothes?
All that business of 'expressing yourself'?
The Stylist expresses his Style.
And his Style is always greater than he is.
The Style is ultimately external to The Stylist.
It's his only in that he serves it.
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The Stylist can also change his style without in anyway compromising himself.
He can choose to serve a new master.
#23 2010-07-28 00:13:43
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
Cruel to be kind
Cruel and kind
Tight-lipped, focused and intense
Yet capable of loyalties and friendship
A powerful sense of restraint
A potent sense of dissatisfaction with the straight life and the straight world, even if artfully concealed
#25 2010-07-28 02:42:14
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Re: The Interface: Style Over Substance
Once the Dandy wore a defined style (think the Beau), these days I'd say he doesn't, whereas a Stylist is perhaps more inclined to opt for a more or less defined style. Just guessing here really, but another thing might be the true Stylist is under 25. Many will lose interest later in life or (and that's important) may become Traditionalists in one way or another.