An update and my recent thoughts about this shitty industry - Abraxas

 No one cares anymore what fashion is. Fashion is watered down from the high and mighty 90s, and early 2000s. Even brands that have had the same designer for the past 30 years like Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Carol Christian Poell are all seemingly boring now. Of course, now that the bar has gone down so much, these designers still stand out, but that to me is just simply because of the avant garde design behind these brands. But overall, I don't even know what I am looking at anymore when it comes to fashion. I know what I like, and I know what to search for. I like my Yohji, Jan Jan, and other small European, and Japanese brands. It is not even a choice for me anymore, I will just only look at these brands. Of course I like to look for new brands, and search for new amazing designers that actually have a knack for fashion, and actual design. Design that pushes the idea of cutting, patternmaking, and things like that. I do believe that of course there are still brands that do that. In New York, one of my friends I do not know what we are, but we know each other. Martin owns a store called Komune that shares brands from around the world that have actually intriguing and gripping designs. Most of these brands are Asian. To me, this shift of region from Europe to America, and now to Asia is not something that should be unexpected. Education in art, and in clothing starts at such a young age in China, Korea, and Japan. Clothes are something that are embedded in culture and actual deep topics that aren't just sex and eating disorders in European brands, and shitty coarse marketing that is apparent in American fashion brands. Or even the topic of just pure consumerism. These smaller brands that actually want to change the zeitgeist and raise the bar for design emerge from Asia. Maybe I also like them because they are the underdog, and they are smaller brands that do not have as much backing behind them like huge brands like Chanel, and shit brands like that too. There needs to be a reconstruction, starting from the ground up. I think that Komune has started this, and hopefully soon there will be more stores popping up just like Komune that actually want to push the new age of fashion that is not random parisian brands that suck dick. And living in New York has made me see that people do want change. They want change for sustainability, if you even believe in that, they want clothing that is different, but also well made. But that is also not the majority of people in this city. Of course, the younger population wants different things than the old, but there are still many students at my school that still believe that Aritzia is peak clothing. I do not understand that one bit. The amount of propaganda marketing that is in this city is absurd as well. As someone who is forsure different from the other people around me. This is not to boast or to say I am better, I just mean that I clearly have different tastes and opinions than the regular person in this city, I do not want to see people become more like me, I just want to see people become more apparent to the things that are around them. The world that we live in, and the brands that we shop at. It is okay to shop mainstream, it is okay to like mainstream things. I just think that it is just as important to know what they are about, and what they contain more than anything. From that, I believe that it is important that we have stores like Komune that put these brands on your radar. They put new things on the streets of New York. A place where people can go and shop as well and it is just not online. Where you can try on smaller designers and find love and appreciation for something else. But I also believe that you would have to look for it to actually want to shop at Komune. 

Something else that I have been lacking on recently is my attention to the fashion industry right now. I have been slacking as of lately when it comes to what I started this blog for. I think that because I got comfortable, I got lazy. That is not okay. I wanted to create a blog like it was in the past to actually talk about my feelings, and to meet new people with like minded ideas to create something. That is why I teamed up with Gnor, and that is why I am also actively looking for more people to share this idea with. I am not a very social person, but I think that there are forsure interesting people out there that I need to reach out to. But, I also believe that a lot of people at my school will not be for me. They will not be what I thought they would be, and could be. I believe that everyone has their own route, and it does not need to align with mine, but I wish that everyone will keep an open mind, and want small to be the focus and not big. The idea of billionaires literally brainwashing us to what we buy and consume is so out of a movie. But it is what we live in right now. You cannot escape it though other than by being educated and learning about the things around you. I recently have been so interested in geopolitics. It is maybe the most important thing to me right now as the new president of my fucking country is a cult leader that literally wants to take away my rights, and the rights of a lot of my friends. As well as a fear mongering fascist as well. One reason why I am saying this now is because maybe I will not be able to type these things on January 6th. It is so funny. Anyways, geopolitics is just something so much more important to me right now than the fashion industry. Of course, the fashion industry is super tied to the state of the world through geopolitics, but in general it is not as big as geopolitics itself. So maybe I will actually talk a bit more about geopolitics on this blog as well. But of course, I will tie it to art, and stuff like that as well. I also need to read more when it comes to the industry, and art in general. I want to talk about some of my recent favorite people from Japan that I have bought clothes from recently. So I think that I will create a blog about them to show their work as well. We even shot some photos for them. Gnor has them, but we both have no idea what is going on. I will talk to him later. But yeah, overall, this blog has been dead. I want to start slowly starting it up again. Writing about my outings, learning about design, and textiles. Talking to people and designers who are new age. The age of which is the most important to me. The age of life of death, literally. As the world is at a point right now where so much is going on, with so many underlying undocumented or underrepresented stories that are just too much to actually put on TV. If only CNN could run a full day of just news about doom, then I think that people will understand what we are living in. Anyways, I wish everyone a happy thanksgiving, and I will be back soon.

• Abraxas