As you may notice, I changed my blog's header to something more festive. You may know N.E.R.D. is my favorite band ever, if not, check my last.fm for confirmation. Well it's been 4 years and the anticipation is crippling me, Seeing Sounds comes out Tuesday, June 10th. This will be the first CD I've legitimately purchased since Fly or Die. And I haven't even downloaded it yet! Scoff if you must, but I've made great strides. Completely unrelated I want this necklace:
It's from the Nylon X Karmaloop collaboration.
I LOVE streetwear collabos. Bape X Kaws, Collette France X BBC, Kanye X Tsubi, etc. They make my day. However I hate everything Nylon magazine stands for, which is why I hoped that when I saw "Nylon" it meant a completely different company than that pseudo hipster/haute rag that I shamefully have a subscription to. (Hey, they were giving them out for free at Urban Outfitters!) Don't get me wrong, they have thoughtful ensembles with absolutely delightful color palettes, but it's like they try so hard to be different that they come off as pretentious and admonishing to their target market. They laud up and coming designers, indie movies and books, and people who thrift, yet they juxtapose those with "famous for absolutely nothing" Cory Kennedy, party girls, and haute couture fashion that anyone can see they're supposed to be rebelling against. Maybe I'm not in their target demographic, which I think is late teen to mid 20's, but if I was an impressionable I'd be confused as hell. Trying to be "original", then being told what "original" is by the editors, people so desperate to cling to their teen years by imposing their views of youth upon me for their own selfish reasons, and then that company blatantly acting in opposition of those views by running the mainstream ads they choose in their magazine. The saddest thing to me is the people that write in every month. "Dear Nylon, I love your magazine. No one in this town gets me or my sense of fashion. They're so lame. When I graduate high school, I'm moving to New York, blah blah blah." The tried and true rural to urban Horatio Alger story, leaving everything and everyone behind to eventually become another New York whatever. Ugh. Sorry for the rant, it just pisses me off because they think they're on the cusp of trends, when everyone I know has already know about this stuff for ages, and then it gets infiltrated by teens and becomes uncool. But now who's being admonishing? That would be me. Let the teens have something to look forward to. They are the future, after all. But yeah, I really want that necklace.
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