InternetCitizen

Oh, hai.

i think the idea for our blog comes from a true, honest place, but it is indeed incredibly pretentious in execution. it is also partially an absurd thing, a waste of time if every there was one. i’ve always found fashion to be a horrible thing. that being said, i became aware of a separation that existed between fashion or trends and the design of clothing. trends are not so interesting to me (sociologically, maybe), but the skillful and artistic design of objects to be worn, outside of ‘trend-watching’ and ‘focus-grouping’ is of great interest to me. for me, i find satisfaction in approaching my everyday decisions as opportunities for rational, objective problem-solving. thus, my approach to dressing myself reflects my interest in creating a system of clothes that all “go together” so i don’t have to think about it. i realized that part of this comes from my upbringing of wearing uniforms at private school. i thought there was an interesting story in that seemingly small decision, so i wanted to understand others’ approaches (at least, the approaches of those who appear to be taking an thought-out “approach” of some sort). as for the call-outs of the pieces themselves, i liken it to a mixtape tracklisting - you’re using someone else’s work to express yourself or your point of view. i think it’s worth noting whose work you’re using. sostark: wewearclothes: stephen + nick, earth & atmospheric science, friday stephen shirt, j. crew tie, rock lobster (handknit by a swedish design student) nick jacket, h&m shirt, zara man glasses, gucci both raindrops, earth & atmospheric science My friends Travis and James among a few others have started a blog, We Wear Clothes, in which they post photos of their daily fashion choices and list the items and designers they are wearing. I’m hoping that one of you could could please explain to me the purpose of this blog, because I’m having a little trouble understanding where your coming from. It’s seems to me like this blog functions as way to preserve and display your fashion choices for all of the world to see, because it was not enough for just those you encounter in real life to see what you wear, as it’s somethingeveryone could benefit from seeing. Which seems, to me at least, enormously pretentious. But I want to give you guys more credit than that and the benefit of the doubt. Is this perhaps a parody of such a blog? or something else more lighthearted? I’m really really not trying to be a jerk about this(which seems impossible online). I’m just curious about this because I’ve always trusted your design sense in the past and I’m wondering what the motivation here is. Admittedly I have almost no sense of design or color oraesthetics whether be from the clothes I wear to the art I like, so I’ve always enjoyed looking over the shoulder of my design gifted friends.

i think the idea for our blog comes from a true, honest place, but it is indeed incredibly pretentious in execution.

it is also partially an absurd thing, a waste of time if every there was one.

i’ve always found fashion to be a horrible thing.

that being said, i became aware of a separation that existed between fashion or trends and the design of clothing. trends are not so interesting to me (sociologically, maybe), but the skillful and artistic design of objects to be worn, outside of ‘trend-watching’ and ‘focus-grouping’ is of great interest to me.

for me, i find satisfaction in approaching my everyday decisions as opportunities for rational, objective problem-solving.

thus, my approach to dressing myself reflects my interest in creating a system of clothes that all “go together” so i don’t have to think about it. i realized that part of this comes from my upbringing of wearing uniforms at private school.

i thought there was an interesting story in that seemingly small decision, so i wanted to understand others’ approaches (at least, the approaches of those who appear to be taking an thought-out “approach” of some sort).

as for the call-outs of the pieces themselves, i liken it to a mixtape tracklisting - you’re using someone else’s work to express yourself or your point of view. i think it’s worth noting whose work you’re using.

sostark:

wewearclothes:

stephen + nick, earth & atmospheric science, friday

stephen

shirt, j. crew

tie, rock lobster (handknit by a swedish design student)

nick

jacket, h&m

shirt, zara man

glasses, gucci

both

raindrops, earth & atmospheric science

My friends Travis and James among a few others have started a blog, We Wear Clothes, in which they post photos of their daily fashion choices and list the items and designers they are wearing.

I’m hoping that one of you could could please explain to me the purpose of this blog, because I’m having a little trouble understanding where your coming from.

It’s seems to me like this blog functions as way to preserve and display your fashion choices for all of the world to see, because it was not enough for just those you encounter in real life to see what you wear, as it’s somethingeveryone could benefit from seeing.

Which seems, to me at least, enormously pretentious.

But I want to give you guys more credit than that and the benefit of the doubt. Is this perhaps a parody of such a blog? or something else more lighthearted?

I’m really really not trying to be a jerk about this(which seems impossible online). I’m just curious about this because I’ve always trusted your design sense in the past and I’m wondering what the motivation here is. Admittedly I have almost no sense of design or color oraesthetics whether be from the clothes I wear to the art I like, so I’ve always enjoyed looking over the shoulder of my design gifted friends.