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They Need You [You Do Not Need Them]Steve Oklyn, 2011

Interview with Steve Oklyn

Although you have already a reputation in UK and US, you’re still unknown in France. How do you explain that ?The simple explanation is that many of the subjects of NOT VOGUE’s sharpest critique are French and that they are also the pillars of French fashion, society, style and art. Why support the ideas of your most insightful and devastating critic.

Can we say that your website is a daily digital manifesto ?It is a manifesto. The project [EVENT] uses a digital platform to disseminate NOT VOGUE’s visionary theorizing. The actuality is that a new page has been posted every 2.5 days over three years.

Why did you choose Kadafi and Anna Wintour as logos, is-it an act of resistance ?The choice of Muammar al-Gaddafi and Anna Wintour was made just as the FASHIONWORLD ritual of fashion weeks was ending in early 2011 and the Libyan Civil War [Libyan Revolution] was just beginning.>>> I had this image of Gaddafi sitting next to Wintour both wearing their signature sunglasses at a fashion show. The fictional show I had in mind was CHANEL. They both represent a form of dictatorship.Gaddafi political and Wintour societal. Given the ideological position of NOT VOGUE that FASHIONWORLD is a global system of selfhood control that iconic image and fictional moment made sense.Three years later it makes perfect sense.

You consider that fashion is « a system of mediocrity » and even worse, « a maelstrom of emptiness », do you think that the industry can reborn ?FASHIONWORLD as a global system of signs and control systems will not change. It has no reason to transform itself. HEADLINE: VOGUE November 15, 2014 9:00 AM “Kendall Jenner: Social-MediaSensation Turned Beauty Star” THE NEW FACE OF ESTEE LAUDER photograph Patrick Demarchelier VOGUE December 2014. This is a perfect FASHIONWORLD algorithm. As Andy Warhol would declare: “ABSTRACT” Kendall’s mother and manager as well as Kim Kardashian’s mother and manager Kris Kardashian Jenner is FASHIONWORLD’s Andy Warhol. Her children are her superstars. The McMansion in Calabasas, California is the 21st century FACTORY. Not the Silver Factory of Billy Name but the Black Screen Factory of Kris Jenner and Ryan Secrest. The term mediocre represents the transformation of the source of global contemporary expression from the traditional cultural capitals of New York, London, Paris to the new global suburbs. NOT VOGUE’s position is that there is no difference between the image events of Kim Kardashian and the image products of Jeff Koons. The world culture has shifted from Modernism to Suburbanism. The cultural alchemy of Marcel Duchamp has been superseded by the sorcery of Mickey Mouse. The need for happiness has replaced the quest for knowledge. The artist has been displaced by a manufactured personality. If you view FASHIONWORLD as a religion than it might become reborn. A fundamentalist FASHIONWORLD would be even more corrupting and dangerous than its present configuration.

You say that « fashion is the ally of power » and if we would like to be more aggressive we could say Fashism and Fashist. Is fashion the new form of Fascism ?Any authoritarian system of social organization is fascist. FASHIONWORLD has become dangerous for the emerging youth of the world especially since its leadership made the decision to not only control style but now art. NOT VOGUE views the Fondation Louis Vuitton building in the Bois de Boulogne in the same light as the CCTV Headquarters building in Beijing. They are both structures builtto engineer and simultaneously suppress mass opinion. They both represent SIGINT: Signals intelligence.

« Fashion industry generates massive waves of anxiety to insure its domination through a stressing and repetitive message : buy our products or live in the perpetual fear of social exclusion ». You must have many friends in that environment ?NOT VOGUE is in contact with a number of agents within FASHIONWORLD’s inner circle.. We welcome them as NOT VOGUE ideological sympathizers

As you are not for sale, you think you have some longevity, can you estimate your « longevity » ?By using a WEB.2 platform the ideas and events that define and support the NOT VOGUE project are timeless. It is structured to function as a theoretical counter virus. It is immune to all attacks.

When you say « fashion is an international political organization that doesn’t worry about the right to vote of electors ». Do you think fashion is a democracy or a dictatorship ?Dictatorship: Is a form of government that has the power to govern without the consent of those being governed. When governments’ power does not come from the people, their power is not limited>>> and tend to expand their scope of power to control every aspect of people’s life. NOT VOGUE’s phrase for this expansionist process is: BERGDORF GAGOSIAN Destiny.

We would have liked to be the first French to translate and to publish your thoughts only for the pleasure of shedding light on that kind of sentences :« This command-and-control network of propaganda creates a feeling of emptiness in the consumer, and subsequently drives him or her to needlessly consume again and again in order to make that emptiness go away (which of course it never does). The scenario moves way beyond a simple metaphor of chemical addiction, operating in accordance with a much deeper pathology based on social acceptance (as opposed to drug addiction, which is based on social exclusion). » Can you tell us more about this ?That section of NOT VOGUE philosophy speaks for itself. To expound further would weaken its impact. I believe that the current WEB.2 structure has created a world where youthful dissent which once drove the culture forward has done a 360 degree reversal. The idea of cultural dissent within youth culture is lost and has been silenced with a single word: HATER.

How do you see the future of fashion ?My answer to who will be exposed as a functionary of FASHIONWORLD propagandist pollution [CULTURAL WARMING] is login to: www.tvtormagazine.com and click on the TVTOR #02 link in the menu.>>> NOT VOGUE authored an event specifically for TVTOR titled: STEVE OKLYN TRIPTYCH. After much discussion within the RED PILL ARMY FACTION collective 100 FASHIONWORLD operatives have been named.

You denounce the fashion industry which is caricatural and you don’t hesitate to attack its representative like Anna Wintour or Olivier Zam who are pretending to be essential for the World. Who will be your next targets ?

What are your reader’s profiles ? How many are they to follow you ?The project readership profile and the number of readers is secret intel. As a visual metaphor think of NOT VOGUE as a radical band that each month holds an outlaw concert with 15,000 people engaged in the experience.

In 2014 what are the movies and the fashion pictures who deeply moved you ?The fight sequences in the film JOHN WICK. My favorite “Nota Roja” photographer is Jaralambos Enrique Metinides Tsironides…

CULTURAL WARMING BY THE NOT VOGUE TEAM

Cultural heating is defined by a term we authored within the NOT VOGUE commune: CULTURAL WARMING. I would not describe CULTURAL WARMING as a trend. It is a program (code) that has attached itself in the same manner as an organic virus to the fundamental DNA of the globalized art-‐fashion-‐media industrial complex.The cultural virus is a piece of code that is capable of copying itself and has a detrimental effect · such as we are now witnessing with the corruption of both local and global cultural systems and the destruction of relevant cultural data in order to further spread the irrelevant messaging that is now the dominant product of the A-‐F-‐M industrial propaganda machine. Since NOT VOGUE is primarily focused on the investigation of the fashion virus, it would be most effective for your readers if we mapped out the current viral infection as well as its agents. We at NOT VOGUE view our investigative directive as a social science.It is guided by emotional detachment. The subjects of our reports are driven by what our research reveals, not by emotional motives or sociological or hierarchical prejudices. Our activity is a mapping process, not character assassination. In the same manner as a computer virus, the A-‐F-‐M virus is designed to harm the cultural system by deleting relevant data, ruining files and then spreading the A-‐F-‐M corrupted messaging from one person’s consciousness to another.The majority of this corrupted cultural messaging is aimed at the world’s youth · especially emerging world youth. One of the most intensive attacks of the CULTURAL WARMING process took place under highly controlled circumstances in Japan. Once the virus was thoroughly understood in terms of structure, strategy and attack procedures, the various propaganda corporations · including LVMH, KERING, RICHEMONT, and their message control swat organization CONDE NAST · began spreading their corrupted cultural messaging from Japan to China, Korea and Thailand.A significant theater of propaganda warfare is currently being played out in India. Like all viruses, the key process is growth and multiplication. Outside of a host, the viral message is inactive. The revelation on the part of the A-‐F-‐M overlords and their various corporate officers was that by using identity and body image as the carrier of the virus, they could invade the host in an undetected manner · just like an organic virus. By attacking the host’s sense of selfhood and body image, the A-‐F-‐M message takes over the mind and soul of the host · producing a perfectly controlled viral agent capable of ensuring that the A-‐F-‐M message will find a new host to infect ad infinitum.

A way of further describing the A-‐F-‐M code strategy and process is that the overlords and their executive patrols are coding into each youthful mind and soul a message we have identified as THE TERROR OF THE INFINITE. We the ever-‐growing commune NOT VOGUE and our evolutionary counter-‐corporate infiltration messaging forces [433 (SILENCE THEM WITH SILENCE)] are dedicated to the idea that the underlying idea of planetary and human development is to immerse the self in the infinite. This personal and communal journey opens up the possibility of balance.The A-‐F-‐M message based on THE TERROR OF THE INFINITE has the reverse objective: i.e., to reduce each healthy consciousness to a state of fear through a highly organized series of consumer messages. It is this state of fear that is the foundation of CULTURAL WARMING. Culture operates best and mostly freely when it is cool.Free of all corporate messaging and also free of all the corrupting influences of the viral agents. The agents are the global face of the A-‐F-‐M virus. To repeat: The goal of the overlords is to instill a deep fear of the infinite possibilities pertaining to individual identity and body image. They control with brands ranging from LOUIS VUITTON to NIKE. With fashion weeks. With awards shows like THE ACADEMY AWARDS and THE GRAMMYS.With festivals like CANNES, GLASTONBURY and COACHELLA. Their control of the cultural calendar is a key strategic maneuver. The integration of the ARTWORLD calendar with the FASHIONWORLD and MUSICWORLD calendars into one perfectly organized CULTURAL WARMING calendar is the dominant control system of the world’s evolving consciousness · in particular, that of the world’s youth. Who controls the calendar in fact controls the consciousness of the world.

Here is a perfect example of a viral signal: GRAZIA DAILY May 29, 2014 EXCLUSIVE: (virus control code terminology) Katie Grand (virus agent who, thanks to highly organized strategic maneuvers by the A-‐F-‐M virus code overlords LVMH and CONDE NAST, is a virulent carrier and control mechanism) Tells Us About Styling (styling is an extremely effective code process that invisibly infects the identity and consciousness while delivering high levels of body image corruption] Kendall Jenner (a highly contagious new generation of the virus, 100 percent created and controlled by the overlords) for French VOGUE (using this aspect of the A-‐F-‐M warfare structure on the youth of the world’s sense of infinity to create fear of selfhood). Here we have a demonstration of the CULTURAL WARMING process in real time.Note: “legendary” (more A-‐F-‐M propaganda code) photographer Patrick Demarchelier shot the photos. Katie Grand on Kendall Jenner: “[She] obviously (more coded messaging) was going to be such a ‘thing’” (not an influencer but an inanimate object). Every aspect of what we have just described illustrates the CULTURAL WARMING virus in its most highly virulent form. The map of this virus is: French VOGUE (CONDE NAST) + Katie Grand [editor-‐in-‐chief of LOVE Magazine (owned by CONDE NAST) and long-‐time Marc Jacobs (LVMH) controller] + Emannuelle Alt (CONDE NAST) viral strategy and control agent disguised as the editor-‐in-‐chief of French VOGUE (owned by CONDE NAST) + Patrick Demarchelier, a long-‐time soldier (shoots: propaganda sniper) working for the over-‐the-‐counterrevolution in the disguise of a “legendary” FASHIONWORLD photographer.The uniforms depicted in the photographs are all propaganda messages for the brands (i.e., LVMH) which, thanks to their annual military budgets, control the war on the world’s youth and their sense of natural selfhood (NO FEAR) by instilling a deeply rooted sense of selfhood terror: THE TERROR OF THE INFINITE. It goes without saying that the “models” must be of the same generation as the targeted youth, who must be controlled by fear: fear that if they do not buy all of the products marketed by the overlords, they will be traumatized by insecurity and fear. « REALITY STAR” Kendall Jenner is the perfect delivery system for the warlords’ message, as she represents the very ideal of reality brought to you by television. And with INSTAGRAM now being hailed as the key influencing platform, the Internet reinforces the overlords’ version of “reality” with unprecedented immediacy.

When culture was cool · i.e., in the shadows, difficult and demanding · it was not a very effective mechanism for over-‐the-‐counterrevolutionary consumerist objectives. A turning point came with the use of visibility (heat) to bring the difficult and demanding to the surface · i.e., the popular press. The more integrated and controlled the exposure, the better for the overlords. The recent canonization of Andy Warhol and all his executive officers · including Bob Colacello as an authority viral agent working for the overlords · to ensure that the message of instant and short-‐lived fame is the ultimate expression of a life in our society is incredibly shallow and damaging to the minds and souls of the emerging global youth.

The beginning of the current state of CULTURAL WARMING began on August 1, 1981 with the first day of MTV programming. Here was what the FASHIONWORLD overlords had been hoping for: a corporately-‐controlled infrastructure and strategy to program the world’s youth. With a single media delivery system, over-‐the-‐counterculture could finally be controlled.To this day, youth-‐directed music and music industry personalities remain key agents of propaganda and corporate consent on a global scale. Rihanna and her stylist, Mel Ottenberg, are agents of youth propaganda for the major media and brand corporations. The fact that they are allowed to exist on such a massive scale means that they’re in a position to subdue as many young minds as possible. The brilliance of this corporately organized attack on the world’s youth is that what appears to be the dissemination of liberal concepts is in fact a subliminal transmission of consumerist codes and cues. Just understand the power of Rihanna having over ten million INSTAGRAM followers.The efficiency and efficacy of Rihanna as a carrier of consumerist messaging under the guise of liberal free-‐choice imagery is both brilliant and very disturbing. The near future will just be an expansion of the now: i.e., FASHIONWORLD dominance and control. CULTURAL WARMING is a virus. Authentic culture is local and cool. FASHIONWORLD culture is global and warm. Cool culture is concerned with the authenticity of the creators and their messages. CULTURAL WARMING is focused on global messaging and is only truly concerned with visibility · despite paying lip service to authenticity. By the time an authentic message has been restructured as a corporately-‐owned and controlled message (controlled substance), it only has the surface appearance of authenticity.There is a profound difference between the artist JAY-‐Z’s debut album REASONABLE DOUBT (1996) and JAY Z’s (no hyphen) most recent release, MAGNA CARTA HOLY GRAIL (2013): “Fresh to def in Moschino, Coach bag lookin half Black and Filipino” (1996) to “I don’t pop molly, I rock Tom Ford” (2013). The former is a street-‐level assertion (cool), the latter a corporately-‐sanctioned consumerist commercial (warm).

Regarding the changes I have experienced while living in New York: To be perfectly blunt, the most exciting time for young creatives was when New York was financially broke in the 1970s. Day-‐to-‐day experiences were all basically on the edge. I lived in the East Village during that era, and was at the right place at the right time. There was no money. The rents were very inexpensive. There was no business of lifestyle. You just lived. Restaurant culture, fashion culture, interior design culture basically did not exist.The scene was constructed from a DIY (do-‐ it-‐yourself) methodology. There were a few original streetwise futurists that, especially within my crowd, were scouring the flea markets and Salvation Army resale stores for discoveries, and then selling them in small shops and major flea markets throughout New York. Drugs were a daily activity. Cocaine was everywhere. Gay culture was a beautiful outlaw society. There were no corporations, and no corporate sponsorship of anything. Army-‐Navy surplus stores supplied all of my clothing needs.The vintage stores supplied the cool world with every form of visual narrative it needed. The clubs were all deeply underground. The three artists who did the best job of capturing this world visually were Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Hujar. Peter’s book NIGHT illuminates the beautiful balance between poetry and transgression that was the aura of downtown life. Nan’s book THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY was also a series of live slide presentations (45 minutes in length, with 700 slides and a soundtrack) before it was published as a book.I attended one of these live events, and it might be one of the last truly original moments of modern creativity that I have witnessed and experienced. The intensity of the times is what I remember. I do not miss anything. Then was then and now is now. I can still be intense with my thoughts and actions. Today’s downtown New York is just a financial instrument for art, real estate, restaurants, fashion, hotels, etc. The scene went from chaos theory to corporate PowerPoint presentations.

Published and edited by RED PILL ARMY FACTION, Deserts Magazine [THE JOURNAL OF CULTURAL WARMING] was created for the NOT VOGUE project on April 15, 2014. It was also the 475th page of the NOT VOGUE project. The idea was not to create a platform for the hip and happening, but rather an editorial platform for investigating the fraud that is now the common attribute of the corporately-‐constructed and financially-‐supported versions of the hip and happening. It is an intellectual dissection of the products, people and projects that comprise the context and content of CULTURAL WARMING.The art direction mirrors that of Saturdays Magazine, which is owned and operated by the clothing brand SATURDAYS. Both the SATURDAYS brand and magazine use surfing as a context and content generator. The art direction is very effective. The editorial is of interest. The context of both is based on modern marketing strategies. For us at NOT VOGUE, that is a weakness. Surfing and skateboarding have their origins in pre-‐corporate life.The originators of surf and skate culture were living an outlaw existence. The schism occurred when the first corporations got involved with both. Today there are still free surfers and skaters, but they are now the basis of massive global corporate activity. The current dominant brand of New York skateboard culture is SUPREME.The owner/founder is not a skater. He is a businessman. The brand construct is now so ingrained that, although it appears to its young acolytes as alternative, SUPREME is really the RALPH LAUREN of the Millennial generation. Now a carrier of a corporate message, the brand has nothing to do with any current outlaw cultural activity.Instead, it merely attaches itself to a series of known and absorbed cultural visuals in order to appear alternative. At this point, the question becomes this: Can an alternative culture · a cool world · exist when the financial and corporate warm world pressures are so dominant? We believe the answer is yes. If the team responsible for Deserts Magazine would have to choose an icon of Desert style, we would have to immediately state that it is not a style. It is not a trend. It is not a product. It is not even any particular person. It is a way of investigating the world. It is a process. That process is based on a clear understanding that the way to live as freely as possible is to ignore most of the media events that are presented as hip and happening, and instead view the world with cool eyes.Do not get caught up in all the new products, brands, personalities, and events that are endlessly presented as being crucial to your very existence. Understand that the only truly dynamic and contemporary experience is your organic process, and its relationship to nature. Everything else is an institutionalized program. The first slogan of the Deserts (CULTURAL WARMING) thought process is SABOTAGE FASHIONWORLD WITH YOUR SILENCE. Key processing words would be BREATHE, WALK and INDIFFERENCE. The core principle of anti-‐cultural warming activity is work that is 100 percent financially free. This seems impossible by today’s standards and demands. Individuals have to organize themselves into a community of support. Find a way of being in the world that satisfies you intellectually and offers economic reward. Then you can be free to organize a project that is free of economics · and economic issues. It is advised to create an alias for this activity. In this instance, anonymity is a strength.

To the new developers and architects of the world, the CULTURAL WARMING message would be to stop developing and designing for a decade. The capital cities of the world have been overdeveloped and overbuilt, especially since the spectacle of 9/11 in lower Manhattan. Real estate developers have all caught the CULTURAL WARMING virus. Just a generation or two ago (after World War II), urban development was essentially focused on creating housing and commercial spaces that provided solid and stable residences and workplaces. As with basically everything else in this fever-‐based world, there is now an accepted mindset that every developer and designer is an artist · and that what is being developed is an artistic creation. The building, the interiors and the identity of the project are all viewed as cultural contributions. This is a manifestation of CULTURAL WARMING. Many of these projects are clothed in a rhetoric announcing ever newer strategies of design, lifestyle and · in a most ironic use of the term · sustainability. It would take a decade of design and development silence to cool this down. That of course will not happen. Please note that there are a small number of master architects and an emerging global generation of architects that do understand the dire consequences involved in continuing on a course of starchitectural projects and strategies. What has to be expressed is that most of the real estate development in the world is carried out by boomer generation developers, owners and designers. They came of age in the 1980s, when the idea of fame-‐power and money began its course · a course which leads to the present state of dire affairs. They all see themselves as being a combination of Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger. Like Mick, they can never come to grips with the fact that their message shouldn’t have been part of the 21st century. They bought their way into the consciousness of this century’s youth. We call this development and design by intimidation.

To politicians, we would like to say back down. There is a current mindset in global politics that is disastrous to mankind: a mindset that politicians are possessed of star power. This state of affairs began with the Kennedy myth. Bill and Hillary Clinton also bought their way into the 21st century. They are not needed by the emerging youth of America or the world. FASHIONWORLD plays a key role in this. Anna Wintour’s relationship to the Obama presidency is exactly what CULTURAL WARMING is defined by: IMAGE WITH NO SUBSTANCE. We call this government by intimidation.

To media entrepreneurs and moguls, we would say that what the world truly needs are the facts about what is happening to our relationship with the real. We do not need any more of your diversions and spectacles. We have watched as you have all colluded with each other to control the calendar of the spectacle. Under your guidance, the whole world has become a red carpet · a corporate propaganda commercial. In a sense, Walt Disney is the historical model for the media universe that surrounds us · which also happens to be the most sophisticated surveillance system every created. FASHIONWORLD is DISNEYLAND. From « THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH » to CULTURAL WARMING virus Pharrell Williams’ audio propaganda, “HAPPY.” The MICKEY MOUSE code was used by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and KAWS, and now there is a living version in the 21st century: PHARRELL MOUSE. We call this culture by intimidation.

To economists, we would say please begin a process of reporting on the “unofficial » black economy players, strategies and networks as the normative financial reality. Everyone needs to understand that a great percentage of the world’s economic activity is BLACK, and that this has created the greatest disturbance of value and valuation in the shortest timeframe ever experienced in the history of modern economic theory and reality. If FORBES would publish “The World’s (BLACK MARKET) Billionaires List,” then we might have the possibility of a valuation reset. We call this economics by intimidation.

To the world’s emerging cultural community, we would say take a moment to investigate and review the current state of affairs within the art world · and the use of creative strategies and products within our present consumerist reality. FASHIONWORLD is really made up of numerous propaganda cells, including art, fashion, film, television, music, design, food, and society. Literature plays a smaller role than the aforementioned forms of propaganda, unless of course you are the photogenic young heir · and probably a hyphenate (e.g., actress-‐D.J.) · of a literary star from a previous generation. We call this market reality BERGDORF GAGOSIAN. Just like the sales personnel working at the cosmetics counters of a department store, many of the young players within this global celebrity souq are hired propaganda agents for the giant international brand conglomerates. We call this selfhood by intimidation.

To the OVERLORDS (Jonathan Newhouse, Anna Wintour, Bernard Arnault, etc.) of youth culture domination and intimidation; to the bureaucrats and social engineers of FASHIONWORLD; to FASHIONWORLD agents and apparatchiks who promote and disseminate the destructive algorithm we have titled THE TERROR OF THE INFINITE; To all of you, we say silence by the next generation of evolving and evolved youth will silence you. To the readers of SECOND SIGHT, we would like to say that you can control your life by thinking as much as possible · and consuming as little as possible. Be cool, and try to stay away from the heat generated by CULTURAL WARMING. Understand that Tweets and Instagrams are the 21st century’s primary driver of cultural change the same way that carbon dioxide creates climate change. Pollution of the atmosphere creates global warming, and the pollution of innovation creates cultural warming. Both are agents of death: global warming of the entire ecosystem and cultural warming of the entire idea-‐system.

This was an event experiment. We titled it DOUBLE MURDER REPORT.

STEVE OKLYNLumbrein, CHJune 5, 2014

RED PILL ARMY FACTION:MARK EVENSTEVE OKLYNSIXTY THREESTANLEY BLADEDR. CANYON T. PHIPPSANON BUNKER

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SUBURBANISM IN THE YEAR 2100 [1 INFINITY LOOP] BY STEVE OKLYN

Based on Dr. Hans Rosling’s, co-founder of Gapminder, calculated predication that Dubai will be the “centre of the world” by the year 2100. Dr. Rosling is unknowingly predicting that SUBURBANISM will become the central cultural movement of the world at that point in global history. His prediction is based on population calculations.What we at NOT VOGUE predict is that even with this shift in global population the “center of the cultural world” will be APPLE Inc., Campus 2 [designed by Foster + Partners] located at 1 Infinity Loop in Cupertino, California. It will be the central processing, packaging, and dissemination site for a majority of the world’s cultural and entertainment data flow.Steve Oklyn believes that what Dr. Rosling is advancing with his prediction is that the center of the world’s consumer culture will be located in Dubai by the year 2100. Steve Oklyn would argue that the suburbs of California are in 2015 and will still be in 2100 the major source of the world’s cultural spectacle. Data and influence will be gathered, processed, managed and distributed by APPLE and its various data partners. In 2100 there will probably be an APPLE Campus 3 and possibly Campus 4.Steve Oklyn would also posit that within the next 85 years it would be possible that APPLE Inc. strategically merges with MoMA, CONDE NAST and LVMH. What is absent from Dr. Rosling’s idea is that world power does not just reside with population trends and statistics. It is who control’s the global spectacle.The SUBURBANIST INTERNATIONAL [SI] controls the spectacle in 2015 and will still control the spectacle in 2100. The image of Dubai in 2100 will be a group of multi-cultural teenagers all wearing a Western brand of sneakers, distracted by Western forms of pop media with at least one at any gathering wearing a hat, t-shirt or hoodie with an image of Mickey Mouse printed on to it. Geo-political centers will continually shift over the next 85 years but the leadership and ownership of this eras culture and cultural influence will remain in the control of the SUBURBANIST INTERNATIONAL [SI].Note that through shares and board membership prominent Middle Eastern business and political leaders will share in this control but the data will be still predominately Western in historical and intellectual sensibility. It will be customized when needed but still we believe that the world will be listening to music cloned from Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus and Pharrell Williams and with the world’s art still predominately based on the fame, glamour and society model represented by the life and work of Andy Warhol. We would like to conclude with another prediction.That in Dubai sometime before 2100 an enormous consumer based complex will exist branded and focused on luxury products and elite cultural experiences. This fictional center for the world’s most expensive and exclusive spectacles will be branded as The BERGDORF GAGOSIAN Mall. We envision the BG structure being the largest mall in the world.

SUBURBANISM curated by Steve Oklyn.

TO AURELIEN POIRSON-ATLAN FROM STEVE OKLYN [THE SOFT-CARPETED WORLD]

Aurelien: Thank you for the Facebook “city » article. For me this is further proof that Suburbanism is not just a theory. The suburbs of Northern California are the cultural capital of the world. Apple Campus 2 [1 Infinity Loop] under construction in Cupertino, California and now the Facebook financed and Frank Gehry designed « Zee-Town » project in Menlo Park, California are the 21st century master planned digital culture compounds that are replacing the idea and mythology of the city based creative community. The historical relationship between an underground artistic clique and a broken under valued urban terrain in which their artistic ideas begin and thrive is not just history but worse nostalgia. It is this editorial and scenic worldview that is at the core of FASHIONWORLD’s propaganda machinery.Beginning with SoHo in New York City, Williamsburg & Bushwick in Brooklyn, Shoreditch, Hoxton and Spitafields in East London and now DTLA Downtown Los Angeles the 50 plus year history of urban enclaves where young artistic renegades and visionaries come to meet and generate the new ideas that keep culture alive and vibrant has now become just a myth. This urbanist process is now corporately financed and managed to create the Suburbanist process of cultural control, development and distribution.The culture that thrived on individual human contact and competition where the most innovative idea was the goal, has now been transformed into a multiverse of platforms and data collection with the participants Apple and Facebook employees [allegedly] acting as surveillance agents for hidden corporate interests and government agencies.As I mentioned in my interview with Cecile Montigny for APAR.TV I believe that the Rem Koolhaas designed CCTV [China Central Television] Headquarters building in Beijing is identical in program and purpose as the Frank Gehry designed Fondation Louis Vuitton building in Paris. That objective is the molding of a singular human identity programmed through corporate messaging and spectacles with a single purpose which is an absolute addiction to the distraction of Suburbanist celebrity idolization and brand driven consumerism. The cultural alchemy of Marcel Duchamp has been superseded by the sorcery of Mickey Mouse.As I have already stated Kris Kardashian at the beginning of the 21st century has the same role that Andy Warhol had in the 20th century which is to define the hierarchy of Suburbanist cultural inclusion. The transformation of who decides who is a cultural revolutionary and who is a cultural icon has happened so quickly and with the full assistance of the global FASHIONWORLD, ARTWORLD, and SPORTWORLD that very few new critics have taken notice or my guess do not want to investigate what is happening for fear that they will not be invited to the global Suburbanist party.Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Bernard Arnault, Francois-Henri Pinault, Jonathan Newhouse, Anna Wintour, Graydon Carter, Jack Dorsey, Kevin Systrom, Benjamin Eymere and hundreds of others are a matrixed organization which I have termed The Suburbanist International. The term is of course a play on The Situationist International. The world of the Situationists was urban [derive] and a counter-culture: “Never-Work. » The Suburbanist world in development on high-security corporate campuses located in California is a “Must-Have » over-the-counter culture.Apple Campus 2 and Facebook’s Zee-Town are calculated and tactical advancements of Walt Disney’s original vision of The Suburbanist International experience with the construction of Disneyland “The Happiest Place on Earth » in Anaheim, California which opened in 1955 and Walt’s second campus of Suburbanist propaganda and cultural control Walt Disney World [1971] or simply Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida.The 87th Academy Awards and all the pre and post ceremony parties and events happened this past weekend in Los Angeles and if you read the gossip columns reporting on who was attending the various celebrations you would notice Tom Ford [who held his women’s Fall/Winter 2015 show days before the Academy Awards in Los Angeles], Apple’s chief designer Jonathan Ive, Jay Z, MOCA Los Angeles director Phillippe Vergne and a planned pattern of models, and other corporate operatives. The red carpet and the corporate logoed step and repeat banners are the theatre of global control.From the individual investigation of the radical nature of the urban landscape to the corporately scripted, cast, recorded and distributed stage of The Suburbanist International that is what is behind Disneyland, Disney World, the CCTV building, the Fondation Louis Vuitton Museum, Apple Campus 2 and the just announcedFacebook Zee-Town. From Disney’s happiest place on earth to Pharrell William’s track “Happy » we are all witnessing and experiencing the drastic shift from a culture involved in the process of creating a deepening knowledge of the world, to a world that is being programmed to think it is contented. A world that is given only one choice to decide what they believe in with that choice expressed and defined by the word “Like. » No other opinion will be allowed or acknowledged. This letter is the foreword to a work in progress titled: The Soft-Carpeted World.

Steve OklynFebruary 25, 2015Haiku FarmsHaiku, MauiHawaii

SUBURBANISM : THERE’S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE BY STEVE OKLYN

There is something happening here and it is the Suburbanist transformation of global culture. In brief my observation is that the goal of the Suburbanist cultural leadership is to remove the need for an individual’s search for knowledge and to have the newest Web 2.0 netizens look for and be defined only by consumerist contentment.FASHIONWORLD’s singular objective is to define and control the vocabulary of human happiness.I view the strategic progression as Walt Disney to Andy Warhol to Steve Jobs to Larry Page/Sergey Brin to Marc Zuckerberg to Miuccia Prada and finally back to Walt Disney.In a Suburbanist world everything already happened and the Suburbanist corporations who control the intellectual property of the past need to keep repeating that past which they already own and present it as the future.This asserts and insures their control. This is the Apple Campus 2 INFINITY LOOP.The design of the building is not just aesthetic. It is the operational feed-back loop protecting the systems power. It is the nexus of THE SOFT-CARPETED WORLD.

STEVE OKLYNFebruary 27, 2015The Rose HotelVeniceCalifornia

SUBURBANISM : THERE’S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE [SECTION 2] BY STEVE OKLYN

In the 20th century contemporary culture, especially the most radical aspects of Western intellectual development and debate advanced in the great urban areas of Paris, Moscow, New York, and London.In the 21st century the contemporary culture that is developing and beginning to define the world is being cloned and controlled on the corporate campuses of Apple, GOOGLE and Facebook in Northern California.The financial, technical, and branding power is located in the Suburbanist North of California. This is the center of the brain trust. The content defined by celebrity data is predominately being managed and manufactured in the enclaves of Suburbanist Southern California, with Los Angeles still the central processing center.We foresee that very quickly the content creation process and power will shift to these corporate Suburbanist campuses. That process began with Steve Job’s development of the first “i” culture processing tool iTunes in 2001, a hallmark in the history of Suburbanist cultural development.Apple’s corporate Suburbanist strategy to direct the cultural development and data flow of the world continued with the acquisition of Beats Music and Beats Electronics in 2014 Headphone culture has been of particular interest to Apple.The idea is to get inside the Suburbanist consumer’s head at an early age in their psychological development. What better way to enforce consumerist cultural mind control than by focusing on the evolving world’s youth.The Suburbanist corporate campuses are rapidly aligning themselves with the traditional cultural authorities and societal arbiters.FASHIONWORLD leadership has begun to take significant decision making positions at the Suburbanist cultural headquarters of Apple. They are leaving London and Paris to be in the suburbs of Cupertino, California. Angela Ahrendts formerly the CEO of Burberry is now the Senior Vice President, Retail and Online Stores at Apple. She reports to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Paul Deneve the former CEO of Saint Laurent is now Vice President Special Projects at Apple, also reporting to Tim Cook.The carpeted environments of the leading luxury corporate cultures of Europe have now been transferred to The Soft-Carpeted World on campuses located in Northern California.Conde Nast publicly announced their involvement in the process of shifting power, particularly brand power towards a cultural Suburbanist vision, when Anna Wintour chose to put Kim Kardashian with Kanye West on the cover of American Vogue’s April 2014 issue.Since then, Kim’s nineteen year old half-sister Kendall Jenner has become a superstar of FASHIONWORLD influence.In the first years of the 21st century the Suburbanist leadership has gained control of the world’s cultural narrative. The history of urban counterculture has been superseded by Suburbanist over-the-counter consumerist culture.The black leather motorcycle jacket, an iconic image representing outlaw culture in the 20th century, has been transformed by FASHIONWORLD in alliance with Suburbanist technology into data.It is this data that is flowing through the Suburbanist campuses and cloned, removing any aspect of cultural dissent in the process. That is the goal. What was once an idea [the outsider] in opposition to all forms of corporate involvement with counterculture is now an image promoting consumerist culture. A cultural revolution drained of all meaning becomes fashion. Welcome to the Suburbanist agenda.Welcome to The Soft-Carpeted World. Karl Lagerfeld’s showroom:

Apple Watch event at COLETTE Paris September 2014 Pictured left to right are Sarah Andelman, Karl Lagerfeld, Anna Wintour, Jonathan Ive and Marc Newson a new member of the Apple design team:

American Vogue Magazine March 2015. On the right hand page [Apple icon/WATCH] is the first page of a 12 page propaganda spectacle.

Notice that it is positioned opposite the all important for propaganda purposes « letter from the editor » page signed by Anna Wintour. The Apple Watch launch with Anna Wintour’s full endorsement and involvement obviously engineered by Tim Cook is the model for Suburbanist consumer culture moving forward. People and products presented as culture but really just « meaningless excitement » [Peter Saville] strategically scripted, managed, and distributed by the Suburbanist leadership. Kim. Taylor. Karlie. Cara. Pharrell…I can sell you lies You can’t get enough Make a true believer of Anyone anyone anyone “Lies” CHVRCHES

GOOGLE just announced their plans for a new 21st century cultural control center [campus]:

No.1 Apple Campus 2 [1 Infinity Loop] Cupertino, California “The 7th happiest place in the United States.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino,_California

No.2 GOOGLE North Bayshore Campus Mountain View, Californiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View,_California

No.3 Facebook West Campus Menlo Park, California NOTE: Frank Gehry designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, Californiahttps://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-menlo-park/unveiling-our-campus-expansion/408653002515369

“Where’s the “Like” button?”http://time.com/30705/facebook-frank-gehry-campus-menlo-park/

STEVE OKLYNFebruary 28, 2015The Rose HotelVeniceCalifornia

SUBURBANISM : THE SOFT-CARPETED WORLD [EVIDENT] STEVE OKLYN

How and why did this moment happen? Where Olivier Zahm, a key FASHIONWORLD operative, is photographing andthen posting on OZ’s personal Instagram account that image that OZ has taken of Kevin Systrom? Why is Kevin Systromin Paris during the same days that Paris Fashion Week is happening? Why is Kevin with Olivier? Who introduced them?What did they discuss during this exchange of influence?

Go to the 6th paragraph [Kevin Systrom co-founder & CEO of Instgram]:http://www.apar.tv/mode/to-aurelien-poirson-atlan-from-steve-oklyn-the-soft-carpeted-world/

It is incredibly interesting that over the past 7 months, beginning with the Apple Watch prelaunch event at The Flint Center* located in Cupertino, California, the very epicenter of the Suburbanist cultural control and management system, that we have the CEO of Instagram (acquired by Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion usd) and the publisher of PURPLE Fashion Magazine in Paris together. I do not believe that any of these occurrences are random. I believe that there is a concerted effort, a strategically planned series of introductions and events at work here. As I have written about on a number of previous occasionsFASHIONWORLD and the Suburbanist business leadership are being brought together.Why are they being introduced and what is being discussed? If we all take a moment to look at and then think about what is taking place, one conclusion just might be that these two very influential groups, FASHIONWORLD and the Suburbanistownership, are organizing into a single tactical organization. I have titled this organization The Soft-Carpeted World.

One thought could be that Paul Deneve the former CEO of SAINT LAURENT, who is now the Vice-President ofSpecial Projects at Apple, could be facilitating these relationships which includes Anna Wintour [VOGUE], Karl Lagerfeld, Sarah Andelman [colette], and Olivier Zahm .Even Olivier’s collaborator Andre Saraiva made a visit, in February 2015, to Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California. He posted a selfie of himself at the campus. These are all key FASHIONWORLD agents.They do have influence. Representing the Suburbanist community are Jonathan Ive and designer Marc Newson.Marc’s wife is the fashion stylist Charlotte Stockdale who has worked consistently with Karl Lagerfeld as a consultant.There is a very visible alliance occurring between the FASHIONWORLD [fashion, art, and society] leadership and the Suburbanist [technology and entertainment] leadership. This relationship seems to be intensifying. In no way do I view any of these events or relationships representing any form of conspiracy. It is business as usual for powerful people and their organizations to align.

These are just events furthering what the prescient thinker Guy Debord first informed the world about and what he saw occurring. Debord eloquently described all of this in his philosophical text The Society of The Spectacle.The Spectacle: that “historical moment at which the commodity completes its colonization of social life.” A society where“All that was once lived has become mere representation.” Where Debord states we are experiencing “the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing.”I believe that the image of Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom taken by PURPLE Fashion Magazine publisher Olivier Zahm during Paris Fashion Week in March 2015 and then immediately posted by OZ on his personal Instagram account is a perfect example · you can call it evidence · that the merger of FASHIONWORLD and SUBURBANISM is not merely a theoretical proposition. It is I believe our current reality. This reality is The Soft-Carpeted World. « The spectacle is not a collection of images, rather it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.” Guy Debord The Society of The Spectacle 1967

Just under 50 years later the most strategic relationships for the transformation of global culture [reality] is happening right before our eyes. In closing I would like to propose a few possible events happening in the near future. The first being that a Kevin Systrom interview will appear in the 24th issue of PURPLE Magazine Fall/Winter 2015. I would also like to further speculate that in a future 2015 issue of L’Officiel Hommes there will be an editorial art directed by Andre Saraiva focusing on Jony Ive or possibly a fashion/technology editorial about Jony Ive and Marc Newson together or maybe a story about Marc Newson and his new position within the design team at Apple. Note that these are free associations.

* http://www.style.com/culture/style-map/apple-iwatch-launch-sarah-andelmanimagehttp://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h · /q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/10/10/1412928879684/866dce9a-4e89-4143-afac-24f7dbf65b04-620×620.jpeg

Andre Saraiva and Jony Ive in Paris October 2014 attending a Marc Newson hosted Azzedine Alaia dinner at covered by PURPLE Diary photo: Olivier Zahmhttp://purple.fr/diary/entry/azzedine-alaia-dinnerAndre Saraiva selfie at Apple Headquarters February 2015http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/l/t51.2885-15/s306x306/e15/10950620_594149034019821_1522670474_n.jpg

The Soft-Carpeted World: The LVMH EntenteLeft-to-right: Delphine Arnault, Patrick Demarchelier, Frank Gehry, Karl Lagerfeld, Cindy Sherman, Christian Louboutin and Marc Newsonhttp://media.style.com/image/slideshows/culture/parties/2014/11/louis-vuitton-celebrating-monogram-party-111014/slides/2048/1366/Louis-vuitton-celebrating-monogram-party-111014_01.jpg

STEVE OKLYNMarch 4, 2015EL COSMICOMarfa, Texas

SUBURBANISM: THE SOFT-CARPETED WORLD [FASTER] STEVE OKLYN

Derek Zoolander took a selfie with Hansel and American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour today.They were together back stage before the VALENTINO Women’s Fall/Winter 2015-16 fashion show in Paris. Blue Steel and Le Tigre also walked the VALENTINO runway. This spectacle represents a flawless Suburbanist infinity loop. This alignment of multiple corporately driven Suburbanist interests is a 21st century operating manual of bland transparency. Starting with Paramount Pictures then adding Conde Nast and finally VALENTINO owned by Mayhoola for Investments, a Qatari financial group, you have a propaganda matrix. They structured a strategically organized digital event.A spectacle created to be captured by an iPhone using Instagram, owned by Facebook, the scripted reality was a programmed message presented with great importance but with absolutely no meaning.Between the room the runway and the data presented you have a conceptual construction we refer to as The Soft-Carpeted World. This is the control center of the fashion-industrial-complex, FASHIONWORLD.

Blue Steel [Ben Stiller], Le Tigre [Owen Wilson], Anna [Anna Wintour] are the leads. The VALENTINO design duo Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccoli in this scene play the extras. The characters played the scene with the awkwardness of adults knowing they are props . They understand that they have been reduced to numerical data. Apple, Facebook and GOOGLE are in control here.They will remain in control of the global cultural data in the near and distant future.

The Hollywood conglomerates, the luxury brand corporations and the mass media groups, Conde Nast in this scenario, have very quickly, faster than they ever expected, lost control of the cultural creation agenda.The Northern California Suburbanist corporations have taken full control of the production, distribution, and status building hierarchies that constitute our consumerist driven global culture.

Paris Fashion Week was invaded and overrun by the current dominant American Suburbanist operatives.These include Kris Kardashian Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, Kanye West, Gigi Hadid, Karlie Kloss, Jared Leto, and Terry Richardson. They were assisted in the assault on Paris by the British agents which this season like every recent season comprises Katie Grand, Jefferson Hack, Stella Tennant, Eddie Cambell, Cara Delevingne, Alexa Chung and the newest UK representative of Suburbanist imagery Lotte Moss. We have to also mention the Paris operatives that have been called upon season after season to create a fantasy of faux insider cool including Olivier Zahm, Andre Saraiva, Camille-Bidault Waddington, Thomas Lenthal, Jennifer Eymere, and Sarah Andelman. During the course of PFW there was one effervescent appearance of genuine style, grace and charm with the attendance in the front row of Jane Birkin.

The designers, the models, the bloggers, the muses, the journalists, and the photographers are relegated to playing secondary characters or extras. Most who attend these planned spectacles are used as decor. FASHIONWORLD owners and their executives increasingly are as in any soap opera playing once vital but now aging leading roles.

The seasonal game of who is designing what collection is weakening as a distraction strategy. The front row has replaced the runway as where the action and major scenes are now played out. Visibility has moved past creativity.

FASHIONWORLD IS MATHEMATICAL. Millions of followers surpass the designer’s mood this season. 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s 1990’s have replaced an idea.

Kanye West’s series of four concerts presented at the FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON was an algorithm created to place and then push data through the Suburbanist network of identity surveillance. Comparing the data statistics on the runways by SAINT LAURENT, DIOR, MARGIELA, GIVENCHY, CELINE, and CHANEL is what is now of utmost importance by the FASHIONWORLD wonks. Accounting has superseded the issue of being original.

They only memorable statement uttered during PFW was not made by Hedi Slimane, John Galliano, Raf Simons, J.W. Anderson, Nicole Phelps, Tim Blanks or Suzy Menkes. The Suburbanist operating system has transformed them all into writers of digital code. Invisible to most and irrelevant to the rest.

The lead player during PFW was LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault. When asked for his reaction to Kanye West’s performance held within his new global propaganda production facility he said ‘He’s great,” while giving a Terry Richardson style thumbs-up signal. Even the appearance and manipulation of Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom by the PURPLE INSTITUTE organization could not top Mr. Arnault’s iconic line reading.

STEVE OKLYNMarch 10, 2015

SUBURBANISM: THE SOFT-CARPETED WORLD [RESISTANCE]

This music marketing event is a perfect example of the enroaching Suburbanist attack on advanced culture. The number one objective of Suburbanist methodology is to endlessly reintroduce what they already own at the expense of supporting any attempt to supplant what has been exhausted of all its authenticity. Warner Bros. Records, a dying corporate control organization shows its utter desperation with this particular meaningless action.This event is a completely false and cynical example of FASHIONWORLD’s attachment to anything and everything drained of all relevant cultural impact. That attachment is based on two realities. The first being that the “stars » and the “artists » of FASHIONWORLD have no vested interest in creating any truly transgressive cultural disruption. They can only be called stars and artists in the most debased definition of those terms.The star is in the truest sense of the term programming and the artists are at best tools performing their task as propagandists. The second reality is the use of seduction as the non-message in which to sell what has already been sold before.Karlie Kloss since 2008 has become a key agent for the major fashion-industrial complex corporations.

What is presented with this commercial for a product that is irrelevant in every sense of the word, is the Suburbanist need to sell its dead messages as miraculously new and inspired. Everything here is dead. The music, the narrative, the visual design, and the photography.Everyone involved in this spectacle are operatives and agents attempting to create a global monoculture based on a recent past that lost all its meaning before the 21st century began. Nile Rogers, Karlie Kloss, Inez and Vinoodh, Stephen Galloway are participants in a world-wide monocultural network of producers and managers whose primary objective is to create signals of corporate mind control. The network’s primary goal is menticide, a killing of the mind.Resist all forms of FASHIONWORLD propaganda. Resist all forms of corporate monocultural indoctrination. Understand when you see an image of Karlie Kloss that she is an agent of persuasion. She is a component of the globalized fashion-art-industrial spectacle. There is nothing of significance or meaning in these images and events. These strategically manufactured actions aremeant to impair your autonomy, damage your ability to think independently, and drain your finances.These spectacles are engineered thought reform. The image of a disco ball is your cue to turn your back. Nostalgia is one of the key aspects of early 21st century corporate thought control. FASHIONWORLD IS A MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHM. It is a formulistic past blocking your engagement with the present. F/W 2015/16 SAINT LAURENT is the 1970’s. F/W 2015/16 J.W. ANDERSON/LOEWE is the 1980’s.“Where there is power, there is resistance.” Michel Foucault

STEVE OKLYNBisbeeCochise County, ArizonaMarch 21, 2015

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 Mouse has found a perfect host in Georgia May Jagger.

What Minnie’s virus, originally created by Walt is designed to do, is delete the complexity of the identity processes and replace them with a permanent state of commodification. That infected selfhood is spreading exponentially from one human mechanism to another. Facebook to Instagram to Twitter to Snapchat via the viral selfie agent, this system is a perfect cultural infinity loop.

Identity shoppers upon entering BERGDORF GAGOSIAN you are presented with a series of options. These options represent a Disneyland with a death of your identity penalty:DESIGNERS aisle 5. MODELS aisle 7. POLITICIANS aisle 2. ARTISTS aisle 8. KARDASHIANS aisle 6. PURPLE DIARISTS aisle 9. MOGULS & MUSES aisle 1. CONDE NASTIES aisle 3.

Definition of DRONE: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drone

STEVE OKLYN[REP PILL ARMY FACTION]

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RAMS IS GOD [STEVE OKLYN]

Iwill 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 about Mr. Rams by the design intelligentsia prior to this article. Mr. Rams Ten Principles of Good Design have been universally accepted as design practice doctrine. My position is that Steve Jobs with Sir Jonathan Paul “Jony” Ive meticulously appropriated many of the signature design solutions that Mr. Rams originated starting with his first design for BRAUN AG in 1953 the pocket radio model T3.

This idea has been accepted as factual by many design cognoscenti. My first question to the reader of this article is why does Mr. Rams reputation still exist in the shadow of Sir Ive when it is obvious to the leadership of the international design community that what in practice APPLE is revered for, its design philosophy and its product designs are in reality very proficient sampling of Mr. Rams well documented designs for BRAUN.

In this writer’s opinion the way APPLE Corporation integrated Mr. Rams revolutionary design philosophy and shaped APPLE’s products on Mr. Rams designs for BRAUN without establishing that design vocabulary connection publicly is the story of the devaluation of the work and of the individual creator.This exclusion has benefited both Steve Job’s [APPLE Corporation] canonization and Jony Ive’s elevated reputation as on of the great innovators in design history.

Let me now attempt to identify for myself and the reader what has happened to the definition of originality in our image based society and how an image as opposed to the original idea and the experience of making that idea tangible has more cultural credibility and economic value in the global marketplace than the original. Note that in the most recent quarterly sales report [July 2014] APPLE announced that it had sold 35.2 million iPHONES.

In the mid 1960’s when Eric Clapton was a member of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers the phrase “CLAPTON IS GOD” was spray painted on a wall in the underground station in Islington, London. I would now like to make an equal claim for Dieter Rams. With conviction I state that RAMS IS GOD.

The singular accomplishment of a 26 [1958] year old designer who was able to leap beyond the experience of living through WWII as a child in Germany and then with incredible professional discipline looks beyond the reality of daily life in post-war Europe. He not only sees the future in his mind but then with the support of his employer creates a design [consumer product] that at once signals the power of modernist thinking but then reverberates forward forty three years to Steve Jobs announcing the beginning of the “i” product narrative in 2001.

Trained as an architect and hired as an architect and interior designer by BRAUN in 1955 and somehow as stated in the last of the Ten Principles not only thinks but acts with clarity rarely seen in the last 150 years of industrial design. The position in German is: “Weniger, aber besser.” LESS, BUT BETTER.

“Creativity is just connecting things.” Steve Jobs This quote can be interpreted in a number of ways. I tend to see this as a design history algorithm.The algorithm states that in 1958 designer Dieter Rams working for BRAUN AG in Frankfurt, Germany designs the pocket radio referred to as model T3.[PLUS] On July 1, 1979 Sony Corp. introduces the Sony Walkman TPS-L2, a 14 ounce, blue-and-silver, portable cassette player with chunky buttons, headphones and a leather case. “Try this. Don’t you think a stereo cassette player that you can listen to while walking around is a good idea.” Masaru Ibuka, Sony’s co-founder reportedly saying to Sony Chairman Akio Morita. [PLUS] Bang & Olufsen launches the BeoCom [6000] telephone in 1985 which inspired APPLE’s wheel based user interface. [EQUALS] APPLE announcing the iPOD MP3 player in 2001 “the Walkman of the twenty-first century.”

This simplified innovation and product history lineage does prove that in this case Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive did in fact connect things. Creativity is not “just” connecting things. This one statement by Steve Jobs and the design history presented as an algorithm I believe illustrates a perfect example of how modern corporationsconnect the ground-breaking work of true innovators, construct a product that is an assemblage of inspired thoughts years from the original moment of inspiration and with the power of their media campaigns and media constructed cults of personality place the story of their creativity by connection in the shadow of history.

« Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user’s self-expression.” Ten Principles of Good Design No.5 Dieter Rams

There has been an explosion of designers and designed objects for consumption over the last 40 plus years. Beginning with Studio Alchimia in 1976 and the Memphis Group formed on December 11, 1980 “Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again” Bob Dylan. The historical stage was set to create the design stars Ron Arad, Philippe Starck, Marc Newson, Marcel Wanders, Jaime Hayon, Front Design and others. All having built international reputations and captured the attention of the art world’s most prominent collectors. If as this writer believes the Ten Principles of Design accurately foretold the rational goals andneeds of a world that is destroying itself by designing, producing, and vigorously promoting objects that are not innovative, useless, irrational, unintelligible, decorative, presented as works of art, narcissistic, manipulative, disposable both as products and intellectually, arbitrary, non-sustainable and are all based on a system devoted to the concept that more is better. If you the reader also believe as i do in the vision grasped by a then unknown 26 year old German, a trained architect turned consumer product designer for BRAUN AG who with the design of a pocket radio reference number T3 in 1958 initiated the APPLE « i” era. Then I hope you will join me in affirming that Dieter Rams is the prophetic designer that has decisively defined our age and will continue to influence transcending design into the immediate and distant future. Design happened. Next.

Steve OklynNew York CityApril 24, 2015

THERE’S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE [FUCK]

FUCK JAY ZFUCK KANYEFUCK PHARRELLFUCK RIHANNAFUCK RUSSELL SIMMONSFUCK SEAN COMBSFUCK NIKEFUCK ADIDASFUCK SUPREMEFUCK HYPEBEASTFUCK LVMHFUCK THE KARDASHIANSFUCK KARLIE KLOSSFUCK CONDE NASTFUCK ANNA WINTOURFUCK COLETTEFUCK OPENING CEREMONYFUCK KERINGFUCK HEDI SLIMANEFUCK JEFFERSON HACKFUCK KATE MOSSFUCK JUERGEN TELLERFUCK OLIVIER ZAHMFUCK ANDRE SARAIVAFUCK CHLOE SEVIGNYFUCK DOVER STREET MARKETFUCK JEFF KOONSFUCK KATIE GRANDFUCK RICHARD PRINCEFUCK MARIO TESTINOFUCK THEM ALL

There’s something happening hereBut what it is ain’t exactly clearThere’s a man with a gun over thereTelling me I got to beware

I think it’s time we stopChildren what’s that sound?Everybody look · what’s going down?

There’s battle lines being drawnNobody’s right if everybody’s wrongYoung people speaking their mindsGetting so much resistance from behind

It’s time we stopHey, what’s that sound?Everybody look · what’s going down?

What a field day for the heatA thousand people in the streetSinging songs and carrying signsMostly saying, hooray for our sideIt’s time we stopHey what’s that sound?Everybody look · what’s going down?

Paranoia strikes deepInto your life it will creepIt starts when you’re always afraidStep out of line, the men come and take you away

We better stopHey, what’s that sound?Everybody look · what’s going down?

We better stopHey, what’s that sound?Everybody look · what’s going down?

We better stopNow, what’s that sound?Everybody look · what’s going down?

We better stopChildren, what’s that sound?Everybody look · what’s going down?

STEPHEN STILLS 1966

Steve OklynNew York CityApril 28, 2015

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 is algorithmic. She is using a model which is of very little value at this moment in the flow of ideas. The leadership at CONDE NAST of which she is at the very top are trapped as are allFASHIONWORLD happenings by needing to be visible.

We have now transcended the visible [photography, film, TV] and have transformed our world into a series of invisible mathematical processes.

The algorithms that are GOOGLE, Facebook, Instagram and all that will follow are our world. What has reduced all FASHIONWORLD imagery and happenings to a secondary cultural status is that it is image and not calculus.

The current cultural hierarchy including the great exchange valuation given to Pop art and its syndicated reruns including Jeff Koons and Richard Prince is that they rely on irrelevant processes.

The mythical and the historical have been replaced by the computational. One Donald Judd conclusion is conceptually worth 100 Andy Warhol paintings. The Warhol represents a system of exchange value [image] that is as obsolete as 8-track tape.

The software that creates the wealth that has transformed Warhol’s works into powerful financial instruments are more profound on every level including social, economic, and political. Anna Wintour represents IMAGES IN POWER unfortunately for her [CONDE NAST] reality is now defined and directed by NUMERALS IN POWER.

STEVE OKLYNBonneville Salt Flats, UtahMay 10, 2015

WHO DEFINES & CONTROLS HAPPINESS [STEVE OKLYN]

Ihave to think about this for a moment. Obviously what interests me [Steve Oklyn] is that Kim Kardashian was on a panel this year and that the American entertainment mogul Ryan Seacrest also was in attendance. Mr. Seacrest created the Kardashian juggernaut by producing their reality show « Keeping Up With The Kardashians”

From NOT VOGUE’s point of view advertising has always been at the center and a driving catalyst in the process I have titled SUBURBANISM: The Soft-Carpeted World.

Advertising’s objective is to disrupt the individual’s inner self-hood and slowly adjust and in fact replace it with a programmed construct guided by the advertising cartels.The program destroys the individuals connection to their natural history. It removes on a mass level the individual’s right to live apart from the normative infrastructures and demands that the individual pursue a life of consensus.Note that the advertising-marketing-public relations cartels are in direct cooperation with the globalized policing cartels.The word “agency” is defined as: the capacity, condition or state of acting or of exerting power. The “agency” canalso be defined as an administrative division [as of a government] e.g. The Central Intelligence Agency. Since the new seat of power of the advertising government is Silicon Valley based corporations and it is well documented how the international security forces are involved with the Silicon based networks, my title for an essay investigating the workings of this years event would be CANNES Lions: SURVEILLANCE Everyone who attends the event has made the personal decision to allow their experience, intelligence and talents to be used in the ever accelerating collection and intergovernmental sharing of the world’s personal information. There are some sensitive and very skilled people involved in the creation of corporate message making and distribution. It is the cumulative standardization of these elements that Is dangerous. I believe whatever good intentions and objectives some of the creative players are trying to express SUBURBANISM conforms to one idea: Happiness is an investment instrument. There are creatives that know and express the truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8wdvHo6C14

STEVE OKLYNJune 30, 2015THE ROSE HOTELVenice, CA

COUNTER-CULTURE VS. OVER-THE-COUNTER CULTURE

MARKETING IS NOT A MESSAGE [STEVE OKLYN]

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 ALLY OF POWER REVOLUTION IS THE RESPONSE TO POWER

6. THEIR LOGOS SPEAK LOUDER THAN YOUR WORDS

7. COMMUNIQUE #12

8. THE RUINS OF THEIR UNSUSTAINABLE FICTION IS OUR FRONTIER

9. YOU GAIN CONTROL THROUGH INDIFFERENCE

10. WHO’S SHIT WILL MATTER IN 2050

TEXT [STEVE OKLYN] SO/NGSPRODUCED BY RED PILL ARMY FACTIONRECORDED AT OCEAN WAY RECORDING HOLLYWOODART [MARK EVEN/ANON BUNKER]

IT HAPPENED. NEXT. [STEVE OKLYN]

Fall 2015 saw the end of FASHIONWORLD relevance and cultural significance. There are always more followers in a society than leaders. The leadership of both RED PILL ARMY FACTION [NOT VOGUE] and [SIGNED]99% YOUTH understand that it is time to begin to think and live outside of all the FASHIONWORLD data flow. We have stated that before. The way forward is 433.

433: ARTWORLD HAPPENED. NEXT. FASHIONWORLD HAPPENED. NEXT. DESIGNWORLD HAPPENED. NEXT.FUCK NOSTALGIA.FUCK CONDE NAST.FUCK WME/IMG.FUCK LVMH.FUCK KERING.FUCK RICHEMONT.FUCK THEIR SUBURBANISM AND THEIR SOFT-CARPETED WORLD.

They need you. You do not need them.

STEVE OKLYN

[ONE WORD] BERLUTI’S CLUB SWANN [STEVE OKLYN]

In support of an idea proposed by Maurice Saatchi in a FT Op-Ed essay he authored and had published on June 22, 2006 titled: The strange death of modern advertising

« In the beginning was the Word…You read on:…and the Word was God.

No copywriter could put it better. The word is the brand’s guide, protector, defender and saviour.

The word comes first and it is singular · one word, not several words.For a brand the word comes before all actions, in all media, at all times.

Two words is not God. It is two gods, and two gods are one too many.

The word is the saviour because in each category of global business, it will only be possible for one brand to own one particular word. And some of them have already been booked.

Each brand can only own one word. Each word can only be owned by one brand. Take great care before you pick your word. It is going to be the god of your brand. »

After viewing the Berluti commercial directed by Andre Saraiva I can only assume that the word Berluti has chosen to be the god of their brand is, SOULLESS.

STEVE OKLYNSeptember 17, 2015CLASKA HotelTokyo, JAPAN

NOT VOGUE 500 LIST 2015

These 500 names working in concert constitute one version of the FASHIONWORLD MODIFIED DATA virus. The FMD virus is sensitive to any alteration in its composition. Changing a single element of the propaganda agent will modify its message. This version of the FMD virus is particularly damaging to young minds seeking self-definition. This strain of the FMD virus emerged after Andy Warhol’s death in 1987.Technically the virus is classified as A1W1. This infection is culturally transmitted. Especially susceptible are participants in the art, fashion, entertainment and, celebrity communities. The pathogen has been helped by the emergence of social media platforms over the past ten years.The historical guardians of aesthetic and social power did not foresee and were not prepared for the fact that by embracing digital data their systems would be both a platform for the FMD virus and would also be its first strategic victim. With each tweet and Instagram image that is taken by a viral agent named on this 500 list the virus is both spreading and simultaneously undermining the traditional systems sponsoring the FMD contagion.The FASHIONWORLD MODIFIED DATA virus: After four years of research and examination we conclude that the worldwide spread of the A1W1 FMD virus will successfully destroy its main target Conde Nast by September 2016. Zuckerberg will replace Newhouse. Systrom will then replace Wintour.The components of this version of the A1W1 will have served their purpose. In closing I leave you with a clue to that transfer of power. Picasso Alley will become Warhol Alley.

STEVE OKLYNSeptember 21, 2015Rincon, P.R.

NOT VOGUE 500 LIST 2015

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THE CALABASIAN CANDIDATE [STEVE OKLYN]

It is my belief that Kanye West is a programmed cultural and now political virus. His path to global visibility was engineered. His handlers needed a moment to activate his ultimate program: the disruption of the American political process. The brainwashed operative needs a key word [phrase] to activate his deeply ingrained message. His programming was triggered at the 2015 MTV MUSIC AWARDS during his VMA Vanguard speech. Here is the moment Kanye was put into play as a brainwashed agent of political disruption and control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl5a29-Ybcs

I find it extraordinary that this video has only 16 views. This is a personal belief. I would like the reader to consider how a minor participant in the American entertainment-industrial complex has so quickly, once he became an element in the Kardashian entertainment-industrial complex DISTRACTION programming, been elevated to a self-proclaimed global creative genius. Any rational analysis of his behavior and especially his pronouncements [speeches/rants] has to conclude that they are delusional and worthless.Every media platform is being given to him to espouse his idiocies. This theory obviously would need a deeper consideration of the concept: COOL IS THE FASCIST STRUCTURE-STRATEGY AND MESSAGE OF CONTROL IN THE 21ST CENTURY.It would be interesting to find the teenager that yelled out « Kanye for President » and question him how he was at Kanye’s feet to signal Kanye’s control command.The Calabasian candidate has been activated. Be aware of how Kanye West is being supported to become a continuous presence within the media. Be aware of what he does not say as much as what he does say. Be aware of what everyone from Barack Obama to Anna Wintour says about Kanye.Be aware of everything that unfolds regarding the Calabasian virus. KANYE 2020 has been activated by his handlers. Be aware.

STEVE OKLYNOctober 13, 2015The Pipeline LodgeHaleiwa, HI

OPPOSE HISTORY [STEVE OKLYN]

The editors of APAR.TV asked me to comment on the four Courtin-Clarinscousins, in particular Virginie Courtin-Clarins who has been referred to in the French press as an « agitateur d’idée. » As with all FASHIONWORLDpropaganda, when your family’scompanies spends millions of dollars on print advertising all press about your products and especially about the family members [shareholders] is propaganda.The only way that the public [readers] would understand exactly [editorial transparency] what is happening in terms of the content of the articles and profiles is if once a year Conde Nast and all its competitors published a document stating the names of their advertisers, sponsorship [marketing/promotion] business partners with the budgets for the coming year.It would be interesting to see this list also include how many editorial pages in print and digital were purchased by the levels of their advertising page commitments. This is not a new story. It is just one of the strategies that makes upFASHIONWORLD hegemony.As we end 2015 and enter 2016 my GOOGLE Search for the Courtin-Clarins cousins would state NO LONGER RELEVANT. To quote the members of [SIGNED] 99% YOUTH: FUCK NEPOTISM.Anyone still influenced by FASHIONWORLD brainwashing will not be a participant in the creation of future.

STEVE OKLYN[NOT VOGUE]Garden Valley, NVOctober 18, 2015

ZEPHYR [STEVE OKLYN]

This photo was taken by William Eggleston in 1971. It is time to kill the 1960’s, the 1970’s, the 1980’s, and the 1990’s. I woke this morning, it was Thankgiving Day 2015. I rose in my hometown, New York City. The weather is perfect. Indian summer warmth and a Simpson’s sky. This note is directed toward the influencers in the West.It is time to cut the shit with your unhealthy obsession with the recent past. I direct this statement to Hedi Slimane. Hedistop dragging down the West as the East rages with your repetitive theme party collections. Olivier Zahm just a reminderSerge Gainsbourg died in 1991 and there will never be a second.Alessandro Michele the scene you started ended before you were born. Also, Margot Tenenbaum says hi, took a puff of her cigarette and yawned. Alex Olson, Larry Levan says thanks and went back to his decks.The West is under siege and our creative class are fuckin’ acting out and playing dress up in their parents clothes. The West is under siege from the East and none of our synthetically created cultural leaders are up to the task to defend it. In 2016 and beyond Western culture needs knights not courtiers. I will never acclimate to the Eastern winds.

STEVE OKLYNNovember 26,2015New York City

BALMAIN X H&M = DEATH

From the children in Southeast Asia who manufacture the clothing to the CEO of BALMAIN Emmanuel Diemoz, the whole process is an assembly line of death. Death of the beauty of childhood. Death of the individual right to self determined consciousness. Everyone associated with this calculated societal brain washing is guilty of thought crimes. The designer Olivier Rousteing to the brand agents Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Cara Delevingne, Kris Jenner [Chancellor of Cultural Warming], Lisa Love [Minister of Cultural Programming], Eva Chen [Minister of Digital Mind Control], Lucky Blue Smith, Pyper Smith Cindy Crawford and her propaganda satellite Kaia Gerber are organized into a contagious cultural virus [algorithm] designed to kill an entire generation’s sense of hope, literally kill their consciousness. Observing the spectacle I see despair. A profound lack of hope for hundreds of millions of people robbed of their ability to naturally develop their own concepts of happiness. Everyday the world’s media is filled with reports concerning global warming.The death of hundreds of natural organic species. What the BALMAIN X H&M spectacle represents is the equally troubling worldwide phenomenon of cultural warming. This decay of our cultural histories is rarely reported about.I issue a warning to the readers of this commentary. Be aware that each day brings more and more signs of the imminent death of our human species both from climate change and with equal swiftness the death of our shared cultural consciousness.

STEVE OKLYNNovember 6. 2015Steele City, Nebraska

WARNING: CULTURAL DISASTER

Kanye West is culturally irrelevant. Kim Kardashian is culturally irrelevant.Juergen Teller's photo's of Kim and Kanye are culturally irrelevant. The original project sponsored by System Magazine was culturally irrelevant. Phillips [Auctioneers] in London are culturally irrelevant. Everyone involved with the original project [zine] and the Phillips exhibition believe that this is a cultural grand narrative created by the major artistic talents of our era. All I see is a commercial. They all represent sales and not soul. All of the various individuals and corporations involved are organized as a virus.That virus is the A1W1 [Andy1 Warhol1] cultural propaganda viral agent.The dominant attribute of this cultural infection is a delusional state of self importance. FAMe Fashion - Art - Media is the algorithm developed at the Silver Factory. It is the cultural control code of this era. The result of this 50 year old cultural infection is CULTURAL WARMING. Global warming and cultural warming are expanding on parallel paths towards decades of disasters. Natural disasters in the case of global warming and intellectual disasters in the case of cultural warming. We all must be weathermen and study which way the wind is blowing.

STEVE OKLYNNovember 11, 2015Bisbee, Arizona

#CLIMATEHYPOCRISY

With all due respect, the fashion industry is the worse offender when discussing carbon footprint. Instead of a demonstration or the absurd and honestly ineffectual « walking » videos why not call for a boycott of all air travel for one year by the global fashion community. There is no need for it in the digital age. Think of Karl Lagerfeld’s wasteful carbon footprint. The entire editorial staff of VOGUE in a single year. Think of the Kardashian’s yearly carbon footprint. All for what, selfies.Everyone of the photographers you represent should publicly sign an agreement and announce the ONE MILE initiative. Meaning that for all of 2016 every image they produce will be created within one mile of their main residence. That they will refuse to accept any assignment that requires any form of unnecessary travel. Think of the insane waste of resources to present the CHANEL Cruise 2017 collection in Havana on May 3rd 2016. Every editor and celebrity should boycott that event.Extend the ONE MILE initiative. Have the 100 top models in the world refuse to participate in any fashion shoot or event that requires them to do anything but walk to it or ride a bicycle. NO LIMOS.#ClimateCatwalk is just another example of the fashion communities need for self-promotion.

RespectfullySteve Oklyn

CHANEL DIED IN 1971

Karl Lagerfeld’s extended commercial extolling for the thousandth time the Gabrielle Chanel myth is like everything about the brand in 2015, irrelevant.I suggest that the owners of the brand honor Coco by announcing on January 10, 2016 which is the 45th anniversary of her death that the Maison is closing.Each season’s collection spectacle is a Super Bowl half-time show and has no cultural significance beyond the pr and the number of social images that it generates. Maybe the history of the house could end with a CHANEL X H&M collection. Note: Is it me or has Sarah Mower become the ultimate FASHIONWORLD propagandist and also its most ardent apologist.

STEVE OKLYNDecember 2, 2015Tres PalmasRincon, Puerto Rico

EXHIBIT #100

Moving forward the one question we all must ask ourselves is this: HAS VISIBILITY PERMANENTLY REPLACED MEANING? If we are within the borders of FASHIONWORLD the answer is yes. All one has to do is watch once what I will refer to as EXHIBIT #100 and the total lack of talent on the part of Bella Hadid is excruciatingly on display.LOVE Magazine guided by Katie Grand has become ground zero for the advocacy of a new era of counterrevolutionary cultural engineering. Here is a list of cultural puppets synthetically created by Conde Nast and their societal saboteurs. Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, Lottie Moss and Lily-Rose Depp.In this universe model means cultural engineering of the most insidious order. The six pathogens listed are a virulent form of cultural cancer. They have a specific target which are millions of young women’s not yet formed and highly impressionable minds. The speed at which this cultural decay can be factually determined is by counting the number of Instagram followers starting with Kendall Jenner [48.3 m] + Kylie Jenner [45.1m] + Gigi Hadid [10.1m] + Bella Hadid [1.9m] + Lottie Moss [33.4K] + Lily-Rose Depp [1.1m] for a total of 106,533,400 mind-fucked societal zombies.Everyday this cancer attacking young girls is getting stronger and resistant to any non-cancerous cultural information. In 2016 the 106 million minds affected will probably reach a minimum of 200 million lost youth. The living dead including Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld, Mario Testino and Katie Grand are determined to suck the life out of hundreds of millions emerging youth in a quest to keep themselves in the delusion of relevance. Anna, Karl, Mario and Katie became irrelevant at 12:01AM on January 1, 2000. Using the Newhouse’s crumbling infrastructure they have attempted to stay influential with disastrous results. Their authority died in the twentieth century and nothing can change that fact.

STEVE OKLYNDecember 16, 2015Haiku FarmsHaiku, Maui, Hawaii

CONDE WEST

Today is the first day of a new year. It is if one takes the personal initiative the day to walk away from FASHIONWORLD’s spawn CONDE WEST, GQ’s Most Stylish Man in 2015.As evidence of our contemporary culture’s fall from excellence to a psychopathic level of infantilism one just has to listen to Mr. West’s newest track [commercial]« FACTS »

I do understand what has happened as a consequence of the malignant Anna Wintour’s dictate of bestowing an omnipotent sense of prestige, power, and cultural protection to Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner, Kanye West, North West and inevitably Saint West.As CONDE WEST’s lyrics confirm the only currency of relevance in 2016 is numbers. The principles of a project have been reduced to a single word: PROFIT. The purpose of a project have been reduced to a single word: PROFIT. It is laughably obvious that YEEZUS is obsessed with claiming the UR-NARRATIVE of the Judeo-Christian West.Kim as Mary. Kanye as Yeezus and now we have a SAINT walking among us. Honestly I think the name refers to SAINT LAURENT not any religious designation. The Kardashian, Jenner and West commercial is a form of Saturday morning cartoons. A perfect illusion of cultural depth without possessing any aspect of cultural truth. I also have a sense of the importance of numbers. Let’s estimate how many people are addicted to this falsehood.My estimate is 150 million people worldwide. In a world of close to 8 billion people. That is less than 2% saturation. There are 1.2 billion Roman Catholics alone in the world. That is over 12% of the world’s population. If numbers are « FACTS » than the fact is the true son of God has more market saturation and 2,000 years of street cred. CONDE WEST is no prophet.He is just another illusion of relevance dedicated to PROFIT. I am also sure that Tinker Hatfield is in no way worried about the YEEZY. We tried to reach Michael Jordan for a comment but he was unavailable playing golf this morning.

STEVE OKLYNJanuary 1, 2016Haiku FarmsHaiku, Maui Hawaii

THE NEW ILLITERATI

Ihave been searching for a phrase that can describe the current FASHIONWORLD focus on synthetically manufacturing another series in the endless production of useless propaganda images. The phrase that best defines this year’s corporately engineered memes is:

THE NEW ILLITERATI

PETRA COLLINSGOSHA RUBCHINSKIYLILY-ROSE DEPPINDIA SALVOR MENUEZLOTTA VOLKOVAJULIA CUMMINGSIMON PORTE JACQUEMUSLOTTIE MOSSDEMNA GVASALIAJADEN SMITH

STEVE OKLYNJanuary 8, 2016Vrin, Switzerland

70% OFF

David Bowie is dead. How does one react to the news. My first thought was how to describe what we are being presented as the culture of this moment. I have received a number of emails from FASHIONWORLD retailers in the past few days and the subject is 70% OFF. That I believe is a perfect statement and definition.The 24 hour data cycle is dominated by news about the Kardasians, the Jenner girls, Kanye West, the Hadid Girls, Justin Bieber, the Blue siblings, SAINT LAURENT « it » kids, Petra Collins’ narcissists, STAR WARS redux, Jaden Smith, Vito Schnabel, $220 million dollar New York apartments, a $170 million dollar Modigliani, art fairs, red carpets and the Donald running for President of the United States. I could continue this list but it would be endless and pointless.David Bowie is dead. The first thing I thought to experience was the final key scene in BLADE RUNNER where the warrior replicant Roy Batty delivers his own soliloquy which ends with « It’s time to die. »That is my statement about the 70% OFF culture. We all have the talents and capacity to seek better from ourselves and from our society. Creativity is an innate aspect of every human beings consciousness. I have seen as Roy Batty also experienced unbelievable things. I now must live and survive where many of those wonders have become commodities that diminish my sense of joy and their purpose to control reveal their truth as meaningless and valueless. 70% OFF. We can all do better. We can all seek better. We can all be better. It’s time to live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU

STEVE OKLYNJanuary 11, 2016New York City

TO PIMP A KING

« SAINT LAURENT AT THE PALLADIUM » LOS ANGELES FEBRUARY 10TH 2016Is what the Yves Saint Laurent [SAINT LAURENT PARIS] @YSL Instagram feed states.The black & white photograph of the PALLADIUM illuminated sign and marquee taken by Hedi Slimane. The language of this post was quickly updated to show that the current name of the fashion house is Saint Laurent, not Yves Saint Laurent. As was also announced « …the theme of the show at the Palladium, which be a tribute to L.A.’s music scene. »The full definition of the word « tribute » is: a payment by one ruler or nation to another in acknowledgment or submission or as a price of protection.In other word’s Kering’s FASHIONWORLD Prince in Los Angeles is using the kingdom’s treasury to pay for his own secure haven once he abdicate’s his authority and betrays his King, Francois-Henri Pinault. We must assume if this narrative unfolds, the Prince will be stripped of all his King’s protection and the kingdom’s financed largesse. His majesty referred to within his castle’s walls as« FHP » will make a royal statement filled with praise for his chosen favorite but will also be filled with betrayal and deep emotional pain. His highness knows he has lost his kingdom’s most valued subject.The former Prince will either live a life filled with dilettantish artistic pursuits or since he has become use to a life of riches will immediately seek the protection of a new lord. The new King will be so ecstatic that he is now in possession of his hated rival’s prize that the Prince will be showered with greater riches and within his new sovereign’s domain even more love and exaltation. The Prince’s former ruler will be left forlorn and wandering through the empty halls of his palace knowing he was pimped. Concurrently in another part of the brooding King’s realm weakened earlier by a different Prince’s betrayal he has chosen a barbarian tribe from the East and its young leader to rule over that part of his empire.

STEVE OKLYNDavos-Klosters, SwitzerlandJanuary 16, 2016

TWILLIGHT OF THE GODS

As I began to feel and then predict 5 years ago that whole world is irrelevant and will collapse.It was an autocratic empire and history shows that they all age, weaken and then fall. Instagram and whatever variant evolves next has already replaced them.They have been delusional about their power to influence for years. They all live in the past. None of them have any part of the present and most of them will not have any say or participation in the future. Like any empire the ideas become dust and a few of the visual symbols become kitsch.Grace Coddington is a relic. Eva Chen as head of fashion partnerships at Instagram is more powerful than any editor within VOGUE’s crumbling international empire. I quote the [SIGNED] 99% YOUTH movement: FUCK THEM ALL.

Steve OklynJanuary 21, 2016Davos-Klosters, Switzerland

SOVIET BLOC [STEVE OKLYN]

FASHIONWORLD has experienced a full assault invasion by a SOVIET BLOC. The members of this faction have emerged over that past two years. This Eastern gang and its collaborators includes designers, stylists, photographers, models, journalists, brand directors, magazine editors, the owners of FASHIONWORLD conglomerates and a cadre of sycophants. Members of the Eastern sect include:Demna GvasaliaLotta VolkovaGuram GvasaliaClara DeshayesRei KawakuboEmma Hope AllwoodAnna DyulgerovaGosha RubchinskiyAdrian JoffeSeverMike MeireMaxim BashkaevLiana SatensteinPaul HamelineOlivier ZahmIsabelle GuichotJefferson HackPierre-Ange CarlottiFrancois-Henri PinaultMaud EscudieKevin MaNick KnightDi MinrakhmanovaSarah MowerIdea BooksLou StoppardHeron PrestonTom Emmerson

ANALYSISThese individuals and their organizations are posing as outlaws and revolutionaries but are really cultural parasites living off a society it claims to despise. Like bank robbers these self-proclaimed FASHIONWORLD anarchists went straight to where the money was: the fashion conglomerates.These are not outsiders. Their posturing anarchy and redundant celebrations of self have endeared them to the overlords of the culture industry which have invited them into the machinery of the state.The irony is remarkable: a group of self-styled revolutionaries focused on the glory days of youth and professing fealty to ideas that are half century older than they are. FASHIONWORLD promotes any number of progressive wings but is itself fundamentally regressive. The Baby Boomer generation which owns and operates the FASHIONWORLD state are inwardly still youthful [adolescent] in thought and outlook but outwardly wrinkled, decrepit, corrupted and doomed.The Eastern invasion is just the most recent attempt to control the free thinking youth of the world. The work of these designers and their brand pronouncements are afflicted by a incoherent, jejune, hand-me-down anarchist philosophy.Log on The Line website https://www.theline.com operated by Vanessa Traina Snow and purchase a pair of Vetements reworked jeans for $1,350https://www.theline.com/shop/product/reworked_jean_blue Be warned that your trust fund resources just went towards supporting the subversion of the West.

STEVE OKLYNFebruary 6, 2016Los Angeles, CA

YSL DIED JUNE 1, 2008

NOT VOGUE[FASHIONWORLD PROPAGANDA IMAGINED]SAINT LAURENT MEN’S FALL 2016 + WOMEN’S PRE-FALL 2016Moments after the SAINT LAURENT runway show ended last night in Los Angeles it is rumored that Hedi Slimane HAS BEEN hired as the creative director of TRASH and VAUDEVILLE:

STEVE OKLYNFebruary 11, 20163AMLos Angeles, CA

SEPTEMBER 2016 [STEVE OKLYN]

Steve Oklyn’s prediction has now come to full fruition:http://www.vogue.com/13393674/silicon-valley-instagram-pinterest-polyvore-periscope/http://www.vogue.com/13401631/apple-tim-cook-jony-ive-interview/He predicted the defeat of Conde Nast by Silicon Valley in his essay titledSUBURBANISM: The Soft-Carpeted World on February 25, 2015.The most horrifying quote in the VOGUE.COM article is:« Fashion should stop and recognize how well equipped it is to deal with the triumph of image over word. »Evan Sharp Co-founder of Pinterest. Spoken like a true cultural fascist. A reminder of another group of cultural dictators seducing the world with the manufacture and control focused on a triumph of imagery:

The era of CULTURAL WARMING* is under way. The new dictators are Mark Zuckerberg, Kevin Systrom, Evan Spiegel and their spawn who have created Periscope and Polyvore. The original NEW ILLITERATI** including Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner, and Gigi Hadid are now all publicly intertwined.It makes perfect sense that Tonne Goodman one of Anna Wintour’s minions organized this event. It would be interesting to speculate whether Tonne has seen the writing on the wall for her eventual firing at American VOGUE and like Eva Chen who is already employed at Instagram has begun to plot her move to the Silicon Valley of the image Kings.Is 2016 the beginning of the first data dynasty. The original dynasties lasted for over 3,000 years. According to Evan Sharp the world is already on MUTE MODE. The youth of the free world has to construct a strategy of reality conduct immediately or be relegated to a life of intellectual silence.Unfortunately billions of people are under the control and are digital slaves to Silicon Valley. These are dark and dangerous times for the youth of the world. FASHIONWORLD understood beginning with the Japanese in the 1990’s and quickly moving on to Chinese youth and then South Korean youth that these societies had been structured by Authoritarianism of one form or another so it was very organic to control the minds and emotions of Asia’s youth through incessant FASHIONWORLD propaganda practices and methodologies.The newest era of FASHIONWORLD propaganda is being driven by a cultural invasion from Eastern Europe which Steve Oklyn has also shined a light on and analyzed under the title SOVIET BLOC.

Steve Oklyn believes that FASHIONWORLD will be under complete control by Silicon Valley of the image Kings by September 2016. The new social center of image power will be controlled by real estate developer and contemporary art collector Aby Rosen. When the spaces formerly containing The Four Seasons restaurant in New York City open in September 2016 under their new names Steve Oklyn has predicted that Conde Nast will fall as an image empire.There are supposedly 100 investors in the new rooms of power. If that list of names were made public the youth of the world will know their new masters. What are the odds that a number of Silicon Kings would be on that list.We have a feeling Derek Blasberg, Dasha Zhukova, Jony Ive, Kevin Systrom, Evan Spiegel, Eva Chen, Paul Deneve, Vito Schnabel, Angela Ahrendts, and the ironically named Natalie Massenet will all be seated with the belief that they are the new societal rulers of art, design and style in the 21st century.These rooms will act like the public salons at Versailles. Peter Marino has been chosen as one of the interior designers. The inevitability and depth of bleak satire in all this already deserves a Broadway production authored by South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone. We suggest the title: MPK20 The Musical.

*CULTURAL WARMINGhttp://www.apar.tv/mode/cultural-warming-by-the-not-vogue-team/**THE NEW ILLITERATIhttp://www.apar.tv/mode/the-new-illiterati/

[SIGNED]99% YOUTHFebruary 17, 2016Vrin, Switzerland

INSTA-GLAM! = INSTA-RUIN! [STEVE OKLYN]

It is profoundly ironic the way the bored and nihilistic creatures of affluence and leisure have embraced and are now celebrating the platform of their own demise. The conquered pay homage [… » it has empowered the whole world to think visually. » Anna Wintour] to their conqueror. »ANALYSIS: The growth phase of a civilization is led by a creative minority with a strong, self-confident sense of style, dignity, and purpose. The uncreative majority follows along through mimesis, « a mechanical and superficial imitation of the inspired originals. »In a disintegrating civilization, the creative minority has degenerated into elites that are no longer confident, no longer setting the example. Simply stated Instatgram’s mass has replaced FASHIONWORLD’s definition and defense of class. Mass has been transmuted into a code that the elites now imitate, placate and fear to challenge.SILICON VALLEY of the image KINGS defeated FASHIONWORLD swiftly and decisively because they no longer have a code of their own in which they have confidence. DEFEATED BY DOUBT. Instagram has replaced Conde Nast. Kevin Systrom has replaced Jonathan Newhouse. Eva Chen has replaced Anna Wintour. If an image is worth a thousand words than the photo of Kevin Systrom towering over Miuccia Prada, Anna Wintour, and Franca Sozzani signals surrender.My prediction that the moment of defeat will occur with the friends and family dinners at the new restaurant rising from the ashes of The Four Seasons within Aby Rosen’s Seagram Building has happened faster than I foretold. This celebration presents FASHIONWORLD’s collapse: http://www.apar.tv/publicite/september-2016-steve-oklyn/

STEVE OKLYNFebruary 26, 2016Waimea Bay Oahu, Hawaii

MEANINGFUL TO MEANINGLESS 1971-3003-2016

WHEN A CULTURAL REVOLUTION IS DRAINED OF MEANING IT BECOMES FASHIONYOUR DESIRES HAVE BEEN COLONIZEDOUR REVOLUTIONS ARE SOLD BACK TO US AS FASHIONDISRUPT THE FASHION INDUSTRY HIERARCHYFASHION IS A CULTURAL TECHNOLOGY THAT ASSAULTS THE SENSES AND ERODES SENSITIVITYMASS DECEPTION: 1 CULTURE: 0FASHION GLOBALIZATION IS CULTURAL IMPERIALISMTHERE IS NOTHING LESS IMPORTANT THAN FASHION SOCIETY WITH ITS EMPTY AGENDA AND ITS CLOSED LITTLE WORLDFASHION IS THE ALLY OF POWER REVOLUTION IS THE RESPONSE TO POWERALL SIGNS POINT TO MORE FASHION AND LESS MEANINGCULTURE LOSES ITS RELEVANCE IF IT’S NOT CHALLENGED

MEANINGFUL: « Life on Mars? » David Bowie 1971https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--IqqusnNQ

MEANINGLESS: Nick Knight and Kate Moss British Vogue May 2003 Video published on SHOWstudio March 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFs-t_PRfuU

STEVE OKLYN[FEAR AND LOATHING IN PARIS]Vieques, Puerto RicoMarch 18, 2016

DESTITUTE FASHIONWORLD POWEROur objective is to destitute FASHIONWORLD power. To destitute their power is to undermine their legitimacy, to compel it to recognize its arbitrariness, to reveal that it operates in a contingent dimension. Our objective is to expose the fact that it operates as only a situation, to make transparent its strategems, methods and tactics.Our purpose is to reveal how FASHIONWORLD like any form of government must scheme to survive. To destitute power is to bring it down to earth. All these motherfuckers comprise a FASHIONWORLD structured and supported illusion.

NOT VOGUE IRRELEVANT 25 LIST 2016Helena YeungJoe PerezOlivier ZahmJ.W. AndersonLiana SatensteinAdrian JoffeSimon JacquemusAnders Christian MadsenPetra CollinsCali Thornhill DewittAlexander FuryAnthony VaccarelloClara DeshayesSky FerreiraPaul HamelineGosha RubchinskiyOlga YanulStephane AshpoolLotta VolkovaHeron PrestonAlexandre ArnaultSamir KrimEmma Hope AllwoodSteff YotkaSarah Mower

STEVE OKLYNApril 10, 2016CLUB WAIKIKILima, Peru

FASHIONWORLD CONFIDENTIAL [ISSUE #1]

EDITOR’S LETTERThe premiere issue of FASHIONWORLD CONFIDENTIAL magazine is devoted to the concept of dogma. In 2016 the established opinion is that fashion designers Demna Gvasalia [VETEMENTS & BALENCIAGA] and Alessandro Michele of GUCCI are cultural revolutionaries.As I just stated this is establishment indoctrination. What they both do for a living is firstly not by any definition culture and secondly not by any stretch of the concept are they revolutionaries. A political manifesto is revolutionary.A fashion collection especially branded high-fashion is counter-revolutionary.A street demonstration which could lead to violent confrontations is performative and historically revolutionary. A defile de mode is exploitative and counter-revolutionary.Lotta Volkova, Adian Joffe, Petra Collins, Emma Hope Allwood, Juergen Teller, Paul Hameline, Liana Satenstein, Sarah Mower, Clara Deshayes, Gosha Rubchinskiy, Alexander Fury, Francois-Henri Pinault, Anders Christian Madsen, Glen Luchford, Trouble Andrew, Catherine de’ Medici, ’70s sport, Dover Street Market, Renaissance biker, Lallo25, and Pierre-Ange Carlotti all suffer the plight of FASHIONWORLD operatives, sycophants, and propagandists. Their moods and thoughts are not profound and only function as appearance.They all attempt to infuse their images and statements with a claim to revolutionary legitimacy. What the editors of FASHIONWORLD CONFIDENTIAL see is cultural destitution. One doesn’t take power from the street in order to raise oneself above the heavens. Power creates emptiness. Emptiness attracts power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6QnK0yql8s

STEVE OKLYNEditor-in-ChiefISSUE #1MAY 2016

SELF-DEFENSE [STEVE OKLYN]

The brand Calvin Klein is a global [governmental] power. Power in the 21st century is logistic. The true power resides in the infrastructures of the world. All designers that work for international FASHIONWORLD governments are propagandists of varying degrees of talent including Raf Simons.The most we can say about Raf is that all in all, at least he knows how to entertain his audience, which is his profession of course. That Raf or any contemporary FASHIONWORD designer represents « us » is nostalgia. FUCK NOSTALGIA. The designer is not here to represent anything, they’re here to distract us from questioning forms of power.The power I am referring to is the organization of the world, the engineered, configured, purposed world. FASHIONWORLD governs the social hierarchies, social environments and atmospheres. Whoever administers the order of things, whoever manages the social accesses, governs society. FASHIONWORLD is a global police force organized to control the thoughts and actions of its citizens.Power in 2016 and beyond is defining and controlling the very order of of things and the police who defend it. If Raf Simons is hired as the designer of the Calvin Klein brand, he is just one inconsequential component in a highly organized brainwashing initiative operating not as a cultural program but as a global mindfucking operation focused on the identity and monetary control of the world’s youth.There is only one response to a FASHIONWORLD regulated world. The most revolutionary action is to define your own happiness. Raf Simons cannot define your happiness. Demna Gvasalia cannot define your happiness. Alessandro Michele cannot define your happiness. Gosha Rubchinskiy cannot define your happiness. J.W. Anderson cannot define your happiness. Rei Kawakubo and Adrian Joffe cannot define your happiness. Jefferson Hack cannot define your happiness. HYPEBEAST cannot define your happiness. Kanye West cannot define your happiness. Anna Wintour cannot define your happiness. Drop the mic.

STEVE OKLYNApril 20, 2016Vals, Switzerland

BALENCIAGA MEN’S SPRING 2017 [CIRCLE JERK]

Pierre-Ange CarlottiAlexander FuryDiego HadisLuke LeitchKanye WestGosha RubchinskiyTim BlanksOlivier ZahmStephen GanMark HolgateAnders Christian MadsenNick RemsenJefferson HackAdrian Joffe

Director: Demna GvasaliaProducer: Guram GvasaliaExecutive Producer: Isabelle GuichotProduced by: Kering [Francois-Henri Pinault]Stylist: Lotta VolkovaStar: Paul HamelineCasting: LumpenmenMusic: CLARA 3000Photographer: Tom Emmerson

Groupies:Sarah MowerMaude EscudieCollier SchorrEmma Hope AllwoodAnna DyulgerovaLou StoppardLiana Satenstein

June 22, 2016ParisTime and Place: TBDSTEVE OKLYNEsalen InstituteBig Sur, CaliforniaApril 26, 2016

FUCK THE MET GALA 2016

FUCK THE MET GALA 2016FUCK MARK ZUCKERBERGFUCK KEVIN SYSTROMFUCK EVAN SPIEGELFUCK ANNA WINTOURFUCK EVA CHENFUCK KRIS JENNERFUCK KIM KARDASHIANFUCK KANYE WESTFUCK KENDALL JENNERFUCK KYLIE JENNERFUCK GIGI HADIDFUCK BELLA HADIDFUCK KRISTEN STEWARTFUCK LILY-ROSE DEPPFUCK BALMAINFUCK LOUIS VUITTONFUCK CHANELFUCK CONDE NASTFUCK THEM ALL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=830wVCOYZfI

Instead of writing a variation of what I have expressed over the past five years regarding the negative effects of FASHIONWORLD, I would rather post a recent lecture by American thinker Noam Chomsky.The escalation of brainwashing and mind control by FASHIONWORLD on a global scale is reaching unprecedented levels of 24/7 intensity and saturation. With the recent major investment by the Hollywood talent agency William Morris Entertainment [WME-IMG] in the Frieze Art Fair the identical process and strategy of celebrity spectacle and CULTURAL WARMING within the ARTWORLD will escalate very quickly.Youth of the world you have been colonized. After much thought I see only one way to deflect the visual MINDFUCK that is occurring. Go deep inside yourself and quietly listen.The leadership, agents, and products of FASHIONWORLD and ARTWORLD are meaningless. You are the meaning.

STEVE OKLYNMay 3, 2016Woodstock, New York

THE NOVEMBER FIRES 2023 | RED PILL ARMY FACTIONNOVEMBER 1, 2023 (WEDNESDAY) PRADA KURFÜRSTENDAMM 186 BERLINThe first fire was an homage to architect Roberto Baciocchi. A crowd stood on the street watching the stunning effect of the flames, distinguished by several radiant explosions that blew out the windows. Black-and-white checkered marble flooring, polished steel furniture, ebony, palladium, mirrors, and Perspex all combined into an attractive display of ruin. When contacted about the fire by a correspondent for Corriere della Sera, Miuccia Prada had no comment.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023 (THURSDAY) GUCCI VIA MONTENAPOLEONE 5-7 MILANThe fire lasted 12 hours. The air that evening smelled distinctly of bamboo and antique gold hardware. Frida Giannini, GUCCI’s Creative Director, was seen wandering in front of the store in tears. High fashion. Italian style. Traditional craftsmanship. All of these characteristics produced an exquisitely designed and thoroughly modern sensibility in flames. An unparalleled spectacle. « It was glamorous, » commented Steve Oklyn.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023 (FRIDAY) BALENCIAGA 148 MERCER STREET NEW YORKIsabelle Guichot was in her office in Paris when she received the news. The fire had broken out at approximately 3AM New York time. When the NYFD arrived, the store was completely engulfed in flames. A friend had been in the lobby of The Mercer Hotel across the street, and texted the news to Ryan Korban, the store’s designer. BALENCIAGA designer Alexander Wang was in London. Upon hearing about the fire, he immediately returned to New York. A photo appeared in The New York Post on Sunday, November 5 of Mr. Wang standing in front of the burned-out store with an expression of utter disbelief.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2023 (SATURDAY) PURPLE INSTITUTE 20 RUE THÉRÈSE PARISThe first person to smell the smoke was Annabel Fernandes, the Managing Editor of PURPLE Magazine. She was in the PURPLE INSTITUTE office with photographer Stephane Feugere. As they ran from the building, the first fire engine from the PARIS FIRE BRIGADE was already racing down rue Thérèse. A crowd had gathered. Inside, 30 years of archives were consumed by the fire. Each page, each book, each memento had been transformed from documents of social control to ashes. A week later, one of the firemen who had been on the scene suddenly started singing « DISCO INFERNO » by THE TRAMMPS.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2023 (SUNDAY) DOVER STREET MARKET 17-18 DOVER STREET LONDONAdrian Joffe, co-founder of DSM, was attending a marketing meeting with Rei Kawakubo, his wife and founder of both COMMES des GARCONS and DSM, in Tokyo when he received the news that an explosion had occurred at the flagship DSM store in London. He was also informed that firefighters were unable to contain the ensuing blaze, and that the store had burned to the ground. The explosion was so violent that it shattered the front windows of AUTOMAT, the American brasserie across the road. Stanley Blade had taken his lunch that day at AUTOMAT, and left 15 minutes before the spectacle of DSM’s catastrophic event.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023 (MONDAY) PROENZA SCHOULER 822 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORKOnce a place of persuasion, the store had been transformed by the fire into an incommunicable space. The complexities of flame and speckled stone, finished wood and heat intertwined to bring what was once a brand to dissolution. Fire is purpose-driven. It very quickly unveils its grandeur, revealing where true power lies. A crowd formed to watch from across MadisonAvenue. Together, the brand and the fire captivated spectators in a way that the brand alone never could. The perfume created from the burning clothing, wood, glass, concrete, and stone was a perfectly crafted futuristic creation existing on its own. This was a communal experience, and all involved seemed entirely aware of it.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023 (TUESDAY) VALENTINO VIA DEI CONDOTTI 15 ROMEFire is inherently elegant. It is a dichotomy of fragile yet dangerous natures. When a fire is fully expressing itself, the spectacle is unique and visionary. One word captures the relevance of a fire: intensity. Valentino’s signature red entwined with the flames. It made for a perfect expression. Fire, what a wicked thing to do…to make me dream of you. Burning leather and silks were an overture to the fragrant fireworks of exploding flacons of perfume. Over half a century of the brand’s legacy · erased by flames. In truth, the fire demonstrated a superior understanding and interpretation of Valentino than the house’s current designers, Chiuri and Piccioli. Rome’s Vigili del Fuoco were never able to discover the cause of the event.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023 (WEDNESDAY) BERLUTI MAISON 14 RUE DE SEVRES PARISFires are similar to luxury products. They are bespoke creations exhibiting the same exacting standards in quality, rarity and individuality. The morning after the fire destroyed the flagship, a rumor was circulating that, when putting out the last of the flames, certain members of the BSPP noticed a marble table with the words ATELIER RED PILL ARMY FACTION scratched into its once pristine surface. With this eighth fire in eight days, certain members of the fashion elite were regarding these events as a collection. The object of a fire is to reach its full potential. When asked by a reporter from Le Figaro about the destructive event, BERLUTI Chief Executive Antoine Arnault just shook his head and quickly stepped into a waiting car.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023 (THURSDAY) FENDI VIA MONTENAPOLEONE 3 MILANOur revolution is young. People, especially youth, are encouraged by what we do here in the heart of the FASHIONWORLD empire. Look at the sky turnin’ hell fire red. Somebody’s house is burnin’ down, down, down. The fire spread quickly. Before the fire engines arrived, the store was already lost · consumed by flames. Silvia Venturini Fendi was spotted behind the police barricades in tears. When reached by WWD, Fendi’s Chairman and CEO Pietro Beccari expressed shock and anger that such an « attack on civilization » could occur.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023 (FRIDAY) DIOR 5-9-11 JINGUMAE SHIBUYA-KU TOKYOThe outer skin of clear glass and the inner skin of translucent acrylic were never more than a billboard. « Mr. Arnault is a very rich man, » commented SANAA co-founder Kazuyo Sejima in 2004, « and he wants to sell as much Dior as possible. We are not so interested in that. We divide exterior and interior. The exterior is very beautiful, and behind the wall is their intention. We try to keep some conflict. » When the building went up in flames, the conflict that had only been hinted at was now made manifest. The day after the fire, hundreds of posters were discovered on the walls of the Omotesando district with the words « RED PILL ARMY FACTION WAS HERE » in red type.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2023 (SATURDAY) 10 CORSO COMO 1717 NANJING WEST ROAD SHANGHAIThe world was on fire. Formed in 2011, the RED PILL ARMY FACTION (RPAF) was created as a means to disrupt and dismantle the fashion-industrial-media complex. Part collective, part platform and part school, the RPAF did not have a fixed identity or function. The organization’s inclusiveness (meetings and membership were open) and nomadism (the RPAF was never tied to a specific space) engendered a decidedly anti-bureaucratic mode of operation and experience. The RPAF burned with conviction, creativity and chaos. After an hour, the flames reduced designer Kris Ruhs’s strict black-and-white color palette to smoldering red and spectrums of charcoal gray. Mounds of ashes lay everywhere. Carla Sozzani released the following statement: « This is a sad day for fashion. Our system is being attacked. The authorities must bring the criminals responsible for these savage provocations to justice. »

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023 (SUNDAY) TOD’S MAXIMILIANSTRASSE 21 MUNICHIf you looked closely, you could see the lettering ORIGINAL WINDOW CONCEPT BY NENDO melting just before the flames completely consumed the leather and polished chrome displays. Rarely discussed is the sound that a fire produces. « If you listen to THE BEATLES, it’s always the same, » said Steve Oklyn. « But if you listen to a fire, it’s always different. » The best way to describe the art and craft that goes into creating a fire is technical realism. To craft a modern fire, the arsonist utilises a deft touch to shape the flames. A fire can be modern, classical or experimental. When discussing a fire, you cannot ignore its tactility: the way the heat and the flames caress and embrace the environment they’re tasked to consume. When notified of the fire and its subsequent destruction, TOD’s President and CEO Diego Della Valle and his brother Andrea boarded Diego’s private jet and flew to Munich. When pulling up to the smoldering building, Diego noticed that across the facade in red spray-paint were the words « Burn, Baby! BURN! »

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023 (MONDAY) BOTTEGA VENETA 800 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO All fashion brands are counter-revolutionary because they are only concerned with the preservation of their existence. They are empty structures which, in spite of their grand origins, can never be filled. Nothing about a fire is simple. Every aspect of the event is meticulously planned. It usually takes three to four weeks to design every aspect of the incendiary narrative. Within the deep web, the FIRE FORUM (FF) is the largest gathering of arson enthusiasts worldwide · not to mention the most active. The RED PILL ARMY FACTION (RPAF), an original member of the FF, has created a new standard of activism since it was founded in 2011. Steeped in the history of revolutionary events and acknowledged for its dedication to social breakthroughs, the RPAF has emerged as one of the world’s premier activist collectives. The group’s motto, « DISRUPT CRITIQUE DISAPPEAR, » expresses a philosophy of defiance and individuality that now applies to multiple platforms of social control. These include architecture, product design, social network design, and the original fashion-industrial-media complex. As Steve Oklyn wrote in THE BLUE PILL NIGHTMARE (Editions Siegelaub): « The maisons of sensibility will be dismantled. » The Chicago BOTTEGA VENETA fire lasted five hours from beginning to end. A spokesperson for the Chicago Fire Department reported that the first fireman to enter the burning building spotted the words « ATELIER (RPAF) » spray-painted in red across one wall. When notified in Paris about the Chicago event, KERING Chairman and CEO Francois-Henri Pinault stated the following to an International Herald Tribune reporter: « KERING is dedicated to combating violence against fashion. »

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023 (TUESDAY) COLETTE 213 RUE SAINT-HONORÉ PARIS« Experience each fire as if you were reading a poem. Every arsonist has a way of seeing the world. In the particular world of fire that they make their own, everything is connected. A fire blurs the frontiers, merges the mobile with the immobile. For some arsonists, fire is pure emotion. In each of their conflagrations, there is a perfect realization of form: the delicacy and mystery of heat and flame. » · Excerpt from a lecture delivered to the FIRE FORUM (FF) on April 2, 2023 by Dr. Canyon T. PhippsThe event happened very quickly · less than half an hour for a steady blaze to reach the moment of inferno. A setting for consumer consumption, consumed by flames. It took what only seemed like an instant for the windows to blow out, catapulting all manner of corporate propaganda into the air outside · bijoux, beauté, musique, vêtements, chaussures, lunettes. The street was covered in a new reality: ALAIABANDOFOUTSIDERSCHRISTOPHERKANEEDDIEBORGO, HERMESGIVENCHYBALMAINAPPLEUNDEFEATED, DIORHOMMEYAZBUCKLEYMARCJACOBS. Sarah and Philip Andelman held hands silently with Sarah’s mother, Colette, as the fire created an expression of liberation out of the elements they had curated for the repression of selfhood.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023 (WEDNESDAY) FRED SEGAL 500 BROADWAY SANTA MONICAThe Fire Revolution: With the creation of the fifteenth fire, the events had acquired an iconic status. The RED PILL ARMY FACTION (RPAF) had pushed the concept of FASHIONWORLD dissent to a new level. Their work represented the beginning of a century-long process globally referred to as « Dangerous Critique, » the practitioners of which risk their lives in formulating their position. By the end of the 21st century, more than 150 individuals had died while practicing Dangerous Critique. The image that accompanied the fire’s reportage in the Los Angeles Times was of the blue-and-red FRED SEGAL sign twisted into an unrecognizable sculptural form from the heat, surrounded by piles of fire- and water-damaged clothing.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023 (THURSDAY) SAINT LAURENT 80 GREENE STREET NEW YORKThe architects of heat and flame create an infinite set of structural possibilities to redesign a brand’s identity. Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, which releases heat and light. The flame is the visible portion of the event. A key meeting of the FIRE FORUM (FF) · attended by all members of the RED PILL ARMY FACTION (RPAF) · focused on the use of fire in warfare. The discussion was simply titled: “THERMAL WEAPONS.” A firestarter is technically an arsonist, and yet there is a predictive aspect to the craft of starting a fire. The NOVEMBER FIRES 2023 predicted how the fashion-industrial-media complex would neutralize the emerging global youth intellectually, artistically and technically with their systematic repression of countercultural expression. The events also predicted the complete corporate control of all entertainers and artists. All countercultural experience would become reflective, as opposed to refractory, of the needs and wishes of the international fashion conglomerates. The fires can also be said to have led to the creation of the COLAB movement, wherein vast, deep web-based collaborative social laboratories would eventually develop a counter-seduction computer virus based on silence theory (code name 433). The development of code name 433 in turn led to the collapse of the fashion-industrial-media complex, whose authority would be completely dismantled by the end of the 21st century. Just as the fires destroyed the flagships, the COLAB guerillas would eventually destroy every aspect of FASHIONWORLD and its propaganda mechanisms. A bystander described the fire in this manner: « The physical destruction of the SAINT LAURENT flagship disrupted the brand’s illusion of perfection. With its intense physical attack on both product and process, the fire was a perfectly realized critique of all that is delusional about branded reality.” Within an hour of the first explosion, the store, the products and the crowd had disappeared. A day later, a spray- painted message was found on the store’s charred facade: “SPREAD THE MESSAGE. »

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NOTE: These documents are from the NOT VOGUE archives. They are being used as research in the creation of a four-volume treatise on the nature, development and terminal stages of the GLOBAL FASHION VIRUS.

POSTSCRIPT: The fires continued from November 17, 2023 to November 30, 2023. When and how these events came to be referred to as THE NOVEMBER FIRES 2023 is unknown.

Steve Oklyn Brucke 49SuiteVals, CHJanuary 12, 2100

[SIGNED] 99% YOUTH

99% YOUTH STATEMENT NO.1

FUCK THEM ALL is a strategic campaign to present a message that we predict will alter people’s perception of their relationship to FASHIONWORLD, defined here as the fashion-art-society-industrial complex. Current thinking is that the Left rose to political and cultural dominance since the 1960’s by way of a Silent Revolution.We are focused on revealing how the radicalism that masquerades as liberalism is in fact a successful counterrevolution dominated by sophisticated visual modes of civilian control. Informational and cultural content of consumer commodities are engineered not to release selfhood but the exact opposite. Fashion, art, and, social activity is organized to police each individual’s emerging sense of self. Technically a new class of experts and managers seized control from inside FASHIONWORLD’sglobal network of hidden alliances and administered by its thought reform operatives.FASHIONWORLD or Big Culture operates within a landscape of mass intellectuality. The leadership’s objective is to define and fix cultural standards, fashions, tastes, consumer norms, and more strategically public opinion. We are all being fucked.

99% YOUTH is focused on authoring messages that possess a compelling integrity. Messages that can reveal the value inherent in all self-directed and self-motivated expressions and encounters. We met and are organized within the deep web. We have thoroughly researched and lived through decades of paradigm shifts. We are trained to expertly originate and maneuver our thoughts first immaterially and then transferred invisibly. Embedded within mass transformations are irony and ultimatelynihilism. The polar points when epochs thrive on fabricated crisis formations. We have assembled to move fluidly across data oceans. As space has become the arbiter of extreme valorization, we say FUCK SPACE. As visibility has replaced introspection, we say FUCK VISIBILITY. Once you can with no fear say FUCK WARHOL the chains will begin to fall.Everything and everyone is presently ruled by the inherited, we say FUCK NEPOTISM. From Newhouse to Kimye’s house, we say FUCK THEM ALL.

99% YOUTH welcomes all your thoughts and opinions. Q. Do you think we are misinformed. Q. Do you think we are naive. Q. Do you feel uncomfortable by what we are dedicated to doing. We challenge you to begin a dialogue.

99% YOUTH is committed to LAWLESS SOLUTIONS. Ours is an Invisible Revolution.

[SIGNED]99% YOUTH

FUCK WARHOL [SIGNED] 99% YOUTH

Andy Warhol died in 1987. WARHOLISM should have died in 1987. The key reason the fiction of Andy Warhol and the Factory stays alive is because of a handful of Warhol collectors that have to keep the myth alive to support the auction house, art gallery and private sales valuations high. Andy Warhol’s artistic myth is just that, a myth.WARHOLISM is a dead idea in 2015 and beyond.

FUCK ANDY WARHOLFUCK FRED HUGHESFUCK BOB COLACELLOFUCK THE FACTORYFUCK PETER BRANTFUCK LARRY GAGOSIANFUCK JOSE MUGRABIFUCK STUDIO 54FUCK ABY ROSENFUCK PAUL MORRISSEYFUCK GLENN O’BRIENFUCK MAX’S KANSAS CITYFUCK BRUNO BISCHOFBERGERFUCK GERARD MALANGAFUCK THE MYTH 99% YOUTH

DELUSIONAL AND DANGEROUS [SIGNED] 99% YOUTH

Pharrell is obviously just as delusional as Kanye* as this point. His speech about « no brands » and then his ass is branded with a huge Adidas logo. HahahahahahahahahahahahahahaThe VMAs 2015 was the most expensive commercial in the world. It began decades ago but the transition from a culture to a commercial is complete. CULTURE HAPPENED. NEXT.Farcical that Pharrell is wearing a Chinese Communist era worker hat and the graphics were also Chinese Communist influenced while he keeps repeating the word freedom.*Kanye is the Kardashian Party candidate for POTUS in 2020 and his campaign will be funded by Apple/FOXCONN.

The letter F on his backup dancers costumes was perfect. YOUTH OF THE WORLD CORPORATE AGENT PHARRELL WILLIAMS HAS TOTALLY FUCKED YOU. Instagram and Tweet that.

Historical note: Since pop musical performances are now Broadway and Las Vegas stage acts, here is the original youth song and dance performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugWGhItaQA

Music: Leonard BernsteinLyrics: Stephen SondheimChoreography: Jerome RobbinsBroadway: 1957Film: 1961

FUCK PHARRELLFUCK KANYEFUCK MTVFUCK NOSTALGIAFUCK THE ICONSFUCK THEIR FICTIONSFUCK THEM ALL

[SIGNED]99% YOUTH

[BOYCOTT GIVENCHY] 433

It is truly unbelievable how insane they [FASHIONWORLD] all are. Using the anniversary of 9/11 as the backdrop for GIVENCHY propaganda:

What next AUSCHWITZ The perfect runway:

Better yet and so on trend: Aleppo, Syria:

LUXURY HAS A PRICE BUT NO MORAL VALUE [STEVE OKLYN]

FUCK GIVENCHYFUCK KCDFUCK BERNARD ARNAULTFUCK KARLA OTTOFUCK RICCARDO TISCIFUCK MARINA ABRAMOVIC

FASHIONWORLD LIKE ALL GOVERNMENTS DEMAND OBEDIENCE. [DEFIANCE] 433

[SIGNED]99% YOUTH

433 COLLECTION [SPRING-SUMMER 2016]

433 COLLECTION [SPRING-SUMMER 2016]Title: There aren’t going to be anymore highs.Music: The Spectacular Commodity GLENN BRANCA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkaiW2ZYnE

Look 1/25 OLIVIER ZAHMLook 2/25 CARINE ROITFELDLook 3/25 DEREK BLASBERGLook 4/25 FRANCK DURANDLook 5/25 JENNIFER EYMERELook 6/25 ANDRE SARAIVALook 7/25 SIMON PORTE JACQUEMUSLook 8/25 JEFFERSON HACKLook 9/25 JEANNE DAMASLook 10/25 MARIE-AMELIE SAUVELook 11/25 SARAH ANDELMANLook 12/25 KATIE GRANDLook 13/25 CAMILLE BIDAULT-WADDINGTONLook 14/25 J.W. ANDERSONLook 15/25 NATACHA RAMSAY-LEVILook 16/25 MEL OTTENBERGLook 17/25 MARINE BRAUNSCHVIGLook 18/25 HEDI SLIMANELook 19/25 PETRA COLLINSLook 20/25 ALEXANDRE DE BETAKLook 21/25 VIRGIL ABLOHLook 22/25 INDIA SALVOR MENUEZLook 23/25 ALESSANDRO MICHELELook 24/25 MALGOSIA BELALook 25/25 CHARLOTTE STOCKDALE

BONJOUR COURREGES · BONJOUR TRISTESSE

Systrom will replace Wintour. [STEVE OKLYN]

Instagram starlet:http://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/lily-rose-depp-makes-her-major-magazine-debut

I would compose an essay taking the [500 LIST] quote and site the COURREGES use of Instagram stars and the phrase Instagram starlet to prove that Conde Nast and Anna Wintour are irrelevant. That Mark Zuckerberg with Kevin Systrom now control as Andy Warhol did: INSTANT FAME. The A1W1 virus is here, it is culturally spreading. The cultural epidemic era has a name: FASHIONWORLD MODIFIED DATA.In the FMD era [NOW] the FASHIONWORLD solution is to rely on the past [NOSTALGIA/NEPOTISM] instead of confronting the present to create a relevant future.

FUCK NOSTALGIA

FUCK NEPOTISM

[SIGNED]99% YOUTH

ROCK IS A WEAPON NOT A STYLE

Arock song is a brick. It can be used to build a house of reason.Or it can be thrown through the window.STEVE OKLYN

FUCK SAINT LAURENT[SIGNED]99% YOUTH

The Jesus And Mary Chain BLUES FROM A GUN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIOim3J-jpU

FASHIONWORLD DIED IN APRIL 2014

THE CURRENT EVENTS WITH ALEXANDER WANG LEAVING BALENCIAGA, RAF SIMONS LEAVING DIOR, MARC JACOBS RECENT PUBLIC CONTROVERSIES AND NOW ALBER ELBAZ LEAVING LANVIN IS THE FUNERAL.

99% YOUTH [WEAPON]

CLOTHING CAN BE USED AS A WEAPON OF SOCIETAL DISSENT AND DISRUPTION.THE « IT » IN FASHIONWORLD MIND CONTROL JARGON MEANS SHIT.THE « FUCK » IN 99% YOUTH DEPROGRAMMING TERMINOLOGY MEANS FREEDOM.

[SIGNED]99% YOUTH

VETEMENTS [SUBVERSION OF THE WEST]

Barbarians from the East, a tribe of damaged children [porn and Chernobyl] supported by CdG/Rei Kawakubo and with Kering’s backing have taken Paris.Their ideas are based on a nostalgia for cultural revolution and social irreverence. The truth is that they are low-rent intellectual vampires, poseurs. Andy Warhol, one of their own already exhausted this form of visual posturing and titled itTRASH [1970]. The House of BALENCIAGA has become an Instagram factory concealing an Eastern European nihilism whose message is decay.It is a visual virus spreading quickly with the support of the collapsing media empire of Conde Nast. $700 hoodies are not a revolution. $1500 jeans do not signal a new social philosophy. Youth of the world VETEMENTS is an intellectual crossroad. Choose REVOLUTION or OVER-THE-COUNTER REVOLUTION. Demna Cvasalia with his brother Guram plus their friends including Lotta Volkova and Gosha Rubchinskiy are counter-revolutionaries, FASHIONWORLD propagandists. Our suggestion is take the hoodie you already own and write on it in large letters: FUCK VETEMENTS.

[SIGNED]99% YOUTH

MARK EVEN

INTERVIEW WITH MARK EVEN

Mark Even, we have introduce you in France as a genius, so we will ask you for issues of adults to know more about your work that is already crazy of maturity. So let’s start from the beginning, your birth. Can you tell us more about the sperm bank in California who gave you life?

The Repository for Germinal Choice existed in Escondido, California. It was known as the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank.I was one of the last children conceived with a deposit from the bank. If anyone needs to know more, it’s public record.

You told us having spent time in prison because of your activism on darkweb? What did you do exactly? And at what age? It is intriguing to lock up a child for « hacking crime »?

I’m currently incarcerated at a little known United States Federal Bureau of Prisons correctional facility. It’s a newly constructed lockup for only those individuals convicted of digital offenses. I’d rather not reveal anymore except to state that I’m using my time in prison to devote to my conceptual projects. Donald Judd had Marfa and I have what my fellow prisoners and I refer to as BALSEC: gloBAL SECurity.

How do you live this « difference » compared to young people of your generation?

Most of my generation are not in prison. Most of my generation are part of a global control experiment. I was conceived and nurtured as an experiment to develop a 21st century cultural revolutionary strategist and protagonist. I refer to my parents as collaborators.

How do you see the future of contemporary art?

CONTEMPORARY ART HAPPENED. I and others are using conceptual theories and digital tools to approach cultural activity as critique not cultural souvenirs and societal trophies.

Your work « La Gloire » has totally overwhelmed us, how did you get the idea of ​​creating such a work?

La Gloire was conceived as an algorithm to create doubt in the current leadership of the cultural control and containment program committee.

Hare you conscious of being the youngest contemporary artist in the world?

I’il be 15 years old before the end of 2015. I see my age as consistent with the creators of the online social era. If Zuckerberg is 31 years old and I’m approaching 15 how is that any different than Eli Broad collecting Jeff Koons. There’s a theoretical difference. Eli Broad amassed his wealth through real estate. Jeff Koons creates a form of real estate. Zuckerberg created his wealth from gathering data and I conceive my work as doubt in data.

Do you see that as a strength or a weakness?

My age is a strength. The very conceptual nature of my birth is a strength. The way my mind naturally processes experience and data is a strength.

Is your age will not misrepresent the purpose of your works?Est-ce que ton âge ne va pas dénaturer le propos de tes œuvres ?

My age has nothing to do with the depth of intentions and the messaging in my work.

In France, you already move the lines of art, we have never received so many messages about an artist,  you intrigues french people Mark, what feeling it inspires you? Do you like France ?

I’m touched by your readers interest in my work. I have visited France. I love walking in Paris.

You attack the fashion world with uncommon intelligence in your works, why did you choose this way to deliver your messages?

I view the international fashion and art worlds and the society that it creates as a global propaganda mechanism. They represent control. I’m interested in the disruption of the systems and organizations that are working to control. The battlefield is self-definition.

Why indeed have chosen a title in French? Is this a tribute?

The title of my work La Gloire is a reference to an interview that Yves Saint Laurent gave to a French newspaper and to a form of sexual activity. I liked the way the title could be authored by using similar procedural processing as Bruce Nauman.

What were your inspirations and your aspirations to create works as powerful?

Hans Haacke.

Have you ever been contacted by gallerists or collectors?

I’m in contact with artists but no dealers or collectors.

Whether you are preparing now? Have you ever imagined your next work?

I’m always working.

DOUBLE MURDER REPORT

(2015-2030)

By MARK EVE N (STEVE OKLYN) RED PILL ARMY FACTION

May 2, 2015

There was an international conference of philosophers in Honolulu. For three days, Mark Even said nothing. Finally, the chairman turned to him and asked: “Would you say this table at which we’re sitting is real?” Even raised his

head and said, “Yes.” The chairman then asked him in what sense he thought the table was real. “In every sense,” Even responded. A week later, Mark Even was arrested in Los Angeles for counter-corporate infiltration. His trial went almost unnoticed by the media. Found guilty, he was sentenced to ten years incarceration at a new Federal facility: Balsec One. He would remain there for his full sentence.

Journal No.1 Title: Double Murder Report

(2015-2025)

Locati on: Steele City, Nebraska

Facilit y: Balsec One

Inmat e Name: Mark Even

Username: Steve Oklyn

Password: Infiltration

August 14, 2015

Red Pill Army Faction

Intercept: Fashionworld Internal directive no. 32

Your happiest moments are spent trying to

think up new varieties of victimhood.

August 27, 2015

Not Vogue headline: Fashionworld is not

structured as an art fashionworld is structured

as an indoctrination.

februar y 7, 2017

T the new york times style magazine “Mark Even: Beyond Not Vogue” by Fiona

Duncan Upon the official publication of the first

print edition of 433, T gets the first interview

with its elusive author.

April 20, 2021

433 Poster Image: Antoine Arnault

Messag e: Silence will silence them

· Mark Even

Marc h 18, 2022

Lunch with the Financial Times Mark Even

(Grace Eagle) Not Vogue’s outspoken founder

on Fashionworld, cultural warming and

evolution replacing revolution. “We need not

physically destroy Fashionworld. Its structure

contains the code of its own destruction.”

Februar y 21, 2023

“I wouldn’t say that I fully understand

global warming, but what I do understand is

terrifying. I would say that I fully understand

cultural warming, and what comes from that

understanding is disturbing.” - Mark Even

“We (red pill army faction) created Not Vogue,

and authored 433 not as self-expression but

self-alteration. We started in a revolutionary

mode but, after observing the 2014 events

in Ukraine, Nigeria and Brunei, realized that

revolutionary action had been reduced to

gangsterism. We organized a number of internal

summits, and opened them to thousands of Not

Vogue readers via the deep web.”

The basic components of the 433 position were

authored in 2015, during the first weeks of Mark

Even’s incarceration at balsec one. It must be noted that 2023 was a turbulent year for the red

pill army faction (rpaf).

Two narratives were unfolding. One was

based on the core concept of 433: “Silence

isevolutionary.” There were still founding

members of RPAF who believed in a more

traditional path to confronting Fashionworld.

This group, led by Stanley Blade and Sixty

Three, initiated The November Fires (TNF) on

November 1, 2023 by setting fire to the Prada

store in Berlin. For the following 29 days,

Fashionworld burned. During TNF 2023, Mark

Even maintained his position of silence.

October 1, 2025

Mark Even was released from Balsec One

after 10 years of incarceration. His crime

and imprisonment have become the basis of

a global debate on the legality of countermessaging

and counter-corporate infiltration. In

early 2025, Stanley Blade and Sixty Three had

created a cell of RPAF in Lagos with the local

anti-Fashionworld operatives known as Black

Leaf. Upon his release from prison, Even set up

a residence and 433 headquarters in Lumbrein.

Original Not Vogue member Anon Bunker

remained loyal to Mark Even, and supervised all

433 activities in Lumbrein.Journal No. 2

Title: Double Murder Report (2025-2030)

Locati on: Lumbrein, CH

Facilit y: 433 Safe House

Name: Mark Even

June 15, 2027

(Excerpt from 433 Seminar No. 1)

I feel that I am merely an agent giving you

some keys, which have been given to me topass on to you. These keys unlock the doors

of your present prison. Doors opening on new

vistas, to a world beyond where you are now.

With 433, each one of us is far greater, far

more advanced, far more consciously aware,

and far more intelligent than the Fashionworld

overlords will ever allow us to understand or

become.

April 2, 2030

(Excerpt from 433 SEMINAR No. 8)

The subject of this seminar is the illusion of

Fashionworld. The fashion-industrial-media

complex is a means of concealing truth: The

endlessly expanding structure and endlessly

expanding strategy of identity propaganda.

Fashionworld equates visual presence with

social acceptance and power. Fashionworld’s

manufacture of symbols is a system to block

individuals from directly experiencing their

lives. There is one main task of the fashionindustrial-

media and art complex: To divert

each of us from reality.

December 26, 2030

Upon the death of art dealer Bruno

Bischofberger in May 2030, the back cover of

Artforum Magazine (which advertised Galerie

Bruno Bischofberger for 50 consecutive years)

was replacedby the inaugural advertisement for

the newly-formed Bergdorf Gagosian Gallery

· a financial entity controlled by TPG Capital,

Warburg Pincus and Larry Gagosian.

Sotheby’s New York November 13, 2030

LOT 16

Andy Warhol 1928-1987

SIlver car crash (double disaster)

Executed in summer 1963

LOT SOLD. 402,900,000 USD (Hammer Price

with Buyer’s Premium)

PROVENANCE

Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich

Gian Enzo Sperone

Beatrice Reineri, Turin

Saatchi Collection, London

Gagosian Gallery

Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich

Acquired by the present owner from Bruno

Bischofberger in 1989.

It is believed that the buyer was Bernard

Arnault’s FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON.

Note: Louis Vuitton’s worldwide Christmas

2030 boutique window displays were based

on the theme: THE SILVER WORKSHOP. The

temperature in Paris on Christmas Day 2030 was

32 degrees Celsius.

MARK EVEN

Lumbrein, CH

January 1, 2031

All characters appearing in this work are

fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons,

living or dead, is purely coincidental.