RSS
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube
The Alive wrote
Can Columbus become a Midwestern fashion capital?
Thursday, October 2, 2008
By Brittany Kress
Take a look at the street corners, the sidewalks, the grocery stores. It’s a sea of people in sweatshirts and sneakers, and that casual, Midwest lifestyle is stifling Columbus designers’ best intentions.
Well, so are the makeshift studios they’re working from in bedrooms and living rooms across the city.
But it’s not just quality craftsmanship, training and education, sweatshop-style long nights and promotional efforts that’ll put the city’s designers on the map. Simply put, if Columbus wants to become a fashion capital – and plenty are pushing for it – we’re going to have to start looking more like New York. Or at least shopping a little more local, and with a little more style. Because designers can’t get respect coming from a city of sweatpants.
Alive’s Featured Fashion Designers:
- Columbus Style: Akira Burgess
- Columbus Style: Working from home
- Columbus Style: Brad Osting and Justin Hemm
- Alive & Unedited: Project Runway’s Terri Stevens
- Columbus Style: Shannon Mingus
Ed Hardy har har.
Oh, and Ed Hardy too. I think Ed Hardy fashion (and) shows should only happen in bars, actually.
Bars I don’t go to preferably.
Is it good or bad that I don’t know what Ed Hardy designs look like? Seems to be a lot of hate for this fellow on these boards.
Is it good or bad that I don’t know what Ed Hardy designs look like? Seems to be a lot of hate for this fellow on these boards.
heart – check
skull – check
bedazzler – check
It’s that bedazzled tattoo-inspired crap. Same douche bag responsible for Von Dutch and his new line, Christian Audigier. You could also insert Affliction which, if you can believe it, is actually douchier, but less prevalent.
People choose to wear that?
I am really happy we both brought the bedazzler into this dru.
I’m getting my tattoos bedazzled instead.
I’m getting my tattoos bedazzled instead.
Smart move!
If you’re shocked by how shitty it looks, take a deep breath and click the following link:
http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/2981158?cm_cat=datafeed&cm_pla=tops:men:t-shirt%2Ftee&cm_ite=christian_audigier_short_sleeve_screenprint_t-shirt:227009&cm_ven=Froogle&mr:trackingCode=D21A2C36-5395-DD11-B7E2-001422107090&mr:referralID=NA
Columbus should just buy a lot of these, and the fashion capital thing is a shoe-in.
I also must state that there is something about how things are done. I brought J a shirt a couple of years ago from a now defunct SN store with a bejeweled skull. I actually still like it and think it has held up well. Ed Hardy just always looks like a cheap tatoo.
If anyone wants to open an Ed Hardy store on Park St. with me, I’m in!
http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/2981158?cm_cat=datafeed&cm_pla=tops:men:t-shirt%2Ftee&cm_ite=christian_audigier_short_sleeve_screenprint_t-shirt:227009&cm_ven=Froogle&mr:trackingCode=D21A2C36-5395-DD11-B7E2-001422107090&mr:referralID=NA
For $209!? I’ll take 2 then. And don’t forget the free shipping.
http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/2981158?cm_cat=datafeed&cm_pla=tops:men:t-shirt%2Ftee&cm_ite=christian_audigier_short_sleeve_screenprint_t-shirt:227009&cm_ven=Froogle&mr:trackingCode=D21A2C36-5395-DD11-B7E2-001422107090&mr:referralID=NA
That shirt is only appropriate if you’re a Harley riding amputee Vietnam Vet who only refers to his wife as “woman.”
http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/2981158?cm_cat=datafeed&cm_pla=tops:men:t-shirt%2Ftee&cm_ite=christian_audigier_short_sleeve_screenprint_t-shirt:227009&cm_ven=Froogle&mr:trackingCode=D21A2C36-5395-DD11-B7E2-001422107090&mr:referralID=NA
That shirt is only appropriate if you’re a Harley riding amputee Vietnam Vet who only refers to his wife as “woman.”
except for the description of it reads – “Foil overlays and tiny rhinestones add hip flare.”
Hey woman, where’s my fancy shirt with the rhinestone flare?
And as an aside, someone, somewhere in the US owns this $209 shirt and lives in a home on the verge of foreclosure.
And as an aside, someone, somewhere in the US owns this $209 shirt and lives in a home on the verge of foreclosure.
I’m guessing more than one. Some people will pay good money for *anything* if you tell them it’s “fashion”.
This looks like the kind of thing you see at dirtmalls and ‘flea markets’ with a sign on it that says “worn once”.
(_¤_)
I still want the satin hemp boutique they have in Seattle
and I love this stuff too……just not the price :shock:
[url]http://www.valentino.com/home.asp?tskay=B60ACEA7[/url]
I didn’t expect everyone to jump on board with my idea to act however I didnt think it would be no one. !!! . I’m really taken back because I ve read through this entire post and all this is is Bitching if no result or resulotion comes because of it. Nothing is going to happen if you don’t make it happen. All of you either want it to happen or no it won’t happen. And the people who know it won’t happen are right. But it’s not because it can’t happen, it seems that no one has the balls to step out and try something. :evil:
It doesn t have to be my idea. I dont have to have anything to do with it. But I want to make Columbus as great as it can be. I just happen to like everything design and would like to see this grow in columbus. LSS someone needs to do something. Or we are right back to where we were before this blog. (Square one) (nowhere)
I guess this is where all great ideas go to die.