Catch me in 2029 rocking a TISA snapback and skinnies 😴✌️

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Why are you here and why arent you posting more ashkash

the question shouldn't be why would it change. the question should be what are we (ie: people who think this s*** needs some gatekeeping again) getting out of partaking in the performative aspect of the community anymore

she hasnt posted new thirst traps

you seen that new Meg post tho

No 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨 show me PLEASE

nigga just hates everything

LMAO you should ask what I love! judging anyone based on what they wear (sans maga merch) is narcissistic either way

Ramones? Like the band?

Heaven one of the best recent things. Get hip

put me on then. why do you like it

True jordan 1s kinda timeless cause they've been out for a long time

Well I love Marc Jacobs and the impact he’s had on fashion since 2000s with LV. And the designers he chose for heaven make really cool designs. Not really that deep. Dope brand wit a few good pieces

Fr once this covid s*** is finally fully done people throwing those masks away first chance they get

mark Jacobs lv s*** was densely packed with cultural context and basically set the blueprint for the cross culture phenomenon that Virgil ran off with. heaven is just Ava's fetishization of teddy bears and clouds. the fact that its "not really that deep" whilst not being associated with any cultural synergy other than an editorial on a Shibuya side street and uzi eating a lollipop either is precisely why its garbage

The designs hit at the end of the day bro. I didn’t care for the promo they was doing either wit Uzi and others

I like how you write my g

that feeling's mutual bro I see you on these threads

ok well thats impossible so u gonna be mad and part of it or just like what U like and let people cook. the nostalgia thing is just hardwired into human's brains at this point we could go into the psychology of that but its a whole different thread. 90s wanted to be 70s, 00s wanted to be 80s, 2010s wanted to be 90s, 2020 they're doing 00s. if that's too shallow, performative, predictable to you maybe streetwear isn't your thing anymore that happens

Same - @fiveprestos regarding one of your earlier posts, what are some things you liked this year?

Also which BLM tees did you like and why?

those 70s looking jeans how they get big at the bottom

Well what do you love what makes you tick

I’d say because this year was yadayadayada, its more worthwhile to pinpoint how the sails have been shifted just enough to where we can gauge how the overall paradigm will evolve in the coming years. On a micro level, I dont think trends changed drastically this year - the uptick in mens luxury has been a thing since 2019 - but I think our collective interaction with the fashion world has changed. 2020 proved we have not even reached the peak of what fashion/streetwear culture can actually be synergistically. The Kanye 6, and its family chain of influencers are no longer the gatekeepers and trendsetters of the more niche sphere that we on KTT consider home. In regards to our niche, I think we have reached a point where, nearly 10 years in, kids are collectively strengthening the dialogue in such a way that it truly feels as if certain sects of the fashion community are unifying based on undefined-but-acknowledged ideals; An evolved appreciation for craftsmanship over hype, the appreciation for cultural context and the yearning for meaning, the outdoorsy stuff where we got people going all out in their WDYWT posts taking pics in deserts in Brain Dead vests. We’re subconsciously being extremely proactive in how we want to control the narrative, and I think that’s so hip hop and raw in a time where both of those cultural adjectives have lost much of their meaning and relevance on a mainstream scale. Its very easy for a brand to oversaturate themselves without major consequences, which is why its sacred that many posters on this site can often see right through the bullshit.

I’m critical of the democratization of fashion at times - but I think when done properly it really serves as a highlight of this year. We’re just starting to see what regular kids with youtube and ig accounts can do in the fashion realm, beyond it just feeling like jacobjkeller-core or explore page bait. Sangiev absolutely killed his collection this past fall, Avery Ginsburg’s vision is more fleshed out than most startup highbrow brands, and in theory the bootleg jordans/af1’s/dunks are in enough of an infancy period to be properly done in the coming years.

I love how the overall aesthetic of performative fashion has become more diy, more “shot on iPhone”-esque. Not just in a “sigh we’re all in our houses” way, but in a very natural way that builds upon the obsession with mixing high brow and low brow in years prior. Excellent examples of this were seen in the Juergen Teller work with Adidas x Oamc and Kiko x Asics, as well as the social media presence of the Telfars and Mowalolas of the world who have done a superb job of bringing true PERSONALITIES back to the forefront...none of this is to discount how much twitter emerged as the platform to really toy with fashion/lifestyle expressionism this year, compared to years prior where the IG fit pic was the wave. The post-covid relationship between fashion and twitter really allows fashion to re-embrace itself as an indulgence amidst s***ty living conditions instead of an aesthetic utopia.

Obviously, new balance and asics’ triumphant return to prominence is the standout high of the year. Talk about effortlessly killing it with almost every collab and GR rollout. Personally I sold off all of my sneakers except for my black Kiko kiril 1’s and grey 992’s because I’m that content with how versatile they are with every fit.

If I think of more things I like I’ll tell you, lol. But all in all, young diy brands and the evolution of the men’s luxury trend have my personal full attention going into the new year. The black leather coat thing that’s about to emerge is going to be interesting in the first 4 months of 2021 for sure.

BLM tees that I liked? I don’t know how much of a purpose there is in worrying about what designs were well executed (most were), though I made a thread a few weeks ago concerned with how the act of purchasing BLM streetwear shirts may be a subsect of performance activism and aesthetic posturing that may be completely antithetical to the movements that really need our deindividualized attention at the moment. As much as I indulge in this culture I’ve been attached to since high school, the reality is that I simply do not know how effective of a job the community is doing in doubling down on the specific socio-political messages that illuminate its contours. For christs sake, the amount of NYU kids who have their parents paying 300k for them to get music business degrees, and love No Vacancy Inn, but patronize black people and leftist policies on twitter is absolutely deflating and disgusting. Would I ever say that brands are doing a bad job raising six figures in BLM donations off of t-shirts? Absolutely not, I think it’s a heroic reflection of the culture in that when we show out, we get s*** done. But I think we must become more militant as descendants of 1970s hip hop culture by having more confrontational discussions with fellow community members doing f*** s*** instead of passively posting rocket emoji’s under people's fit pics.

Why are people talking s*** about aime Leon Dore they had one good season this year foe the first time. I’m interested to see their spring summer line tbh. I think 2021 will put the final nail in the supreme coffin. I want chrome hearts fade to go away. Honestly the whole buying expensive s*** just to try to buy your way into being cool needs to stop being cool. Hopefully that will go away in 2021. The whole archive mood board thing needs to go away it’s lazy and unoriginal. like cool you found a old pic on bapetalk but were you really participating in the culture back then or just got into all this stuff post adidas yeezys.