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[Velahrn]

Szata wykonana z pajęczyny, i co najciekawsze, niebarwiona (złoty to naturalny kolor):

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jan/23/golden-silk-cape-spiders-in-pictures

Czekam na krawat!

[Velahrn]

Buszując sobie po japońskich stronach z ciuchami, zauważyłem nietypową współpracę (nie lubię słowa "kolaboracja") między dwoma markami: Buzz Rickson & William Gibson. Tak, William Gibson, pisarz fantastyczny, twórca cyberpunku, autor m.in. Neuromancera.

Niezmiernie ciekawy wywiad znajduje się tutaj, polecam, trochę o historii mody, trochę o filozofii ubioru, sporo o markach workwear / heritage:

https://www.heddels.com/2015/03/william-gibson-interview-buzz-rickson-line-tech-wear-limits-authenticity/

Jest też twórcą pojęcia Cayce Pollard Units

Apparel

CPUs for the meeting, reflected in the window of a Soho specialist in mod paraphernalia, are a fresh Fruit T-shirt, her black Buzz Rickson's MA-1, anonymous black skirt from a Tulsa thrift, the black leggings she'd worn for Pilates, black Harajuku schoolgirl shoes. Her purse-analog is an envelope of black East German laminate, purchased on eBay if not actual Stasi-issue then well in the ballpark.

She sees her own gray eyes, pale in the glass, and beyond them Ben Sherman shirts and fishtail parkas, cufflinks in the form of the RAF roundel that marked the wings of Spitfires.

CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That's what Damien calls the clothing she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally seem to have come into this world without human intervention.

What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She’s a design-free zone, a one-woman school of anti whose very austerity periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.

— Pattern Recognition, 2. "Bitch", page 8.^[9]

As a consequence of her sensitivity, Cayce dresses in plain clothing she has either bought or rendered unadorned with brand markings of any kind (one possible exception is her "Luggage Label" hip bag, bought from Parco in Tokyo). These are referred to as "Cayce Pollard Units" or C.P.U.s, a term initially used by her friend Damien, and subsequently by Cayce, although never aloud.^[9][10] They are typically Fruit of the Loom shrunken cotton T-shirts worn with black oversized Levi's 501s, skirts, tights, boots, and a Buzz Rickson MA-1 bomber jacket.

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Randomowa ciekawostka

Lock & Co, uznana firma kapelusznicza z Londynu, zrobiła kiedyś melonik dla szympansa. Na miarę. O ten:

(szympans nosił rozmiar 5 i 3/4)