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Originally Posted by Kina
I am an 'arty' person (just visually talented from birth) so I can't help but notice and appreciate style, whether it be in a work of art or the way in which someone throws together unexpected items of clothing. And so much of fashion is based on following mainstream trends and looking appealing to the opposite sex (i.e. j.lo and clan) that when someone looks like they're using clothes to bit of fun and be a bit individual instead I always appreciate it.
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I think it's a lot harder for (non-gay) chaps to get the notion of 'style' - the idea of the body being a canvas, with severe restrictions; it's often an ineffable concept, one that escapes rational dissection. I think this is why people who don't get style, who can't have it explained to them, feel alienated by the sort of 's/he's just got it' response. I didn't like the idea of style for my teenhood, but it makes a modicum of sense now. The problem is often that it's difficult to polish a turd - there's no absolute rule that clothing/ accotrement x will work on everyone - person y may look the shit, person z just shit. Kurt Cobain was a handsome fucker, so got away with style-murder. All that followed, with scant exceptions, look worse than the would do with clothes that suit them. I am not, by any means, holding Kurt up as an example of style, by the way. And on that note:
Most look shit in this sort of get-up.
I fucking love this picture. He's one of the leading philosophers of our times, he's somehow knobbing someone nearly half his age and his suit is unspeakably sharp, but he still looks like the most miserable fucker alive.
Ok, not a good example of young person replicable style, but I'd love to look like this in my twilight years. Gorgeous picture as well.