MAGIC KINGDOM [PROGRAMMED AND ABSURD] The desperation on Anna Wintour’s part to be a mainstream celebrity is painful. For me this is just another example of SUBURBANISM: THE SOFT-CARPETED WORLD. The basic error on her part is that she is attempting to be both mythical and historical when the true power of our era [SIGNED] 99% YOUTH • Mode
THERE’S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE [FUCK] FUCK JAY Z FUCK KANYE FUCK PHARRELL FUCK RIHANNA FUCK RUSSELL SIMMONS FUCK SEAN COMBS FUCK NIKE FUCK ADIDAS FUCK SUPREME FUCK HYPEBEAST FUCK LVMH FUCK THE KARDASHIANS FUCK KARLIE KLOSS FUCK CONDE NAST FUCK ANNA WINTOUR FUCK COLETTE FUCK OPENING CEREMONY FUCK KERING FUCK HEDI SLIMANE FUCK JEFFERSON HACK [SIGNED] 99% YOUTH • Mode
RAMS IS GOD [STEVE OKLYN] I will attempt with this essay to explain why I believe that industrial designer Dieter Rams deserves to be considered the most important product engineer and design theorist in our man-made world at the beginning of the 21st century. There has been much stated by Mr. Rams and and written [SIGNED] 99% YOUTH • Mode
RADICAL ANTAGONIST [EFFECT] STEVE OKLYN 3.328 If a sign is useless, it is meaningless. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1921 AMERICAN OXYGEN Rihanna 2015 When Obama was elected President, a prisoner said: one black man in the White House doesn’t make up for one million black men in the Big House. Angela Davis Kathleen Neal Cleaver [SIGNED] 99% YOUTH • Mode
SUBURBANISM: THE SOFT-CARPETED WORLD [DRONE] First there was Walt Disney, the source of the CULTURAL WARMING virus. Then came Walt’s media grandchildren one of which is Jefferson Hack. Originally DAZED & CONFUSED now that their lives are directed and defined by the Web 2.0 viral accelerator they have devolved to merely DAZED. Minnie [SIGNED] 99% YOUTH • Mode
COUNTER-CULTURE VS. OVER-THE-COUNTER CULTURE MARKETING IS NOT A MESSAGE [STEVE OKLYN] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-M58ACA2bY AMPHETAMINE RAPTURE GROUP [SILVER ALBUM] 1. COMMUNIQUE #1 2. YOUR IDENTITY IS A BATTLEFIELD 3. WHEN A CULTURAL REVOLUTION IS DRAINED OF MEANING IT BECOMES FASHION 4. MASS DECEPTION: 1 CULTURE: 0 5. FASHION IS THE [SIGNED] 99% YOUTH • Mode