Shopping at Wal Mart.
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How amazingly boring and unoriginal. Is that what passes for creativity now?
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A Louis V chalk bag! Hahahahaha
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poor choice of title wording
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As always, fashion is targeting whatever whims lodge transiently in the thoughts of over-rich and consequence-free young adults. But why wait for them to make up their minds what they'll be swooning over next? Soon AI will be able to intuit plausible future trends, synthesize deepfake social media to drive them to popularity, source their manufacture and distribution, and allocate investments to profit from them. We'll all be able to look like idiots without any human intervention at all.
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is this really a surprise? atl-leisure pseudeo athletes have being posing as people who like, really sweat, have mental discipline to workout, eat right, work hard and actually accomplish something as they strut thru wherever impersonating the person they so obviously are not. so why is this not the "logical" conclusion?
I'm just surprised the get-ups dont come with fake Batman muscles, a corset and boob implants. maybe for an extra $500 somebody will come over and run a scraper and small knife all over your body to simulate an accident so you tell your lazy non-poseur friends how you got injured saving whales or algae.
sorry whales, nothing personal.
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A $1590 chalk bag? Does it come with someone to carry you to the crag and preclip all the bolts on your 5.7 project?
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Good thing that "...the adventure sports motifs were mostly ornamental" on that model. I think a stiff breeze coming down 2nd Avenue would blow him right off of his feet.
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"On Miuccia Prada’s fall runway, the adventure sports motifs were mostly ornamental."
MOSTLY ornamental? what aspect of the fashion industry's products are anything but ornamental?
Art has been debauched to ornament, and science has been prostituted to the multiplication of gadgets.
-Rebecca West.
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Like I used to say when I was younger and a avid skydiver, I’ll be impressed if I see it at ten thousand feet and in free fall.
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Arcteryx has had a fashion forward line for years called Veilance they also have a law enforcement/military line called LEAF. Couture labels mostly get adventure wear wrong like the Prada pictured in the article. But super fabrics like Tweave have great potential in the hands of a talented designer to be both exquisitely cut and practical. Let’s hope houses are smart enough to hire the right talent.
PS To anyone who lives in this world the fabrics designed at Crye Precision have great runway potential.
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Reality check:
I wouldn't call a $3000 backpack "mainstream fashion."
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I’m surprised none of these designers have come out with a luxe version of the “ Fremen still suit” described in “Dune.” Perfect for the woke guy who wants to be prepared for the worst of future climate change.
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You're a little late! Galibier SuperGuides (a leather boot) were flaunted on campuses in the seventies. At least in New England, the western mountains and probably in Europe, climbing, skiing and general outdoorsiness has been reflected in the casual clothes of the in, hip and wannabe for ever.
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I am old enough to remember when Dr. Casey medical jackets that buttoned at the neck were all the rage.
Next high fashion trend: pastel, poly-cotton pediatric nursing scrubs!
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Wore an astronaut helmet in grade school. Everything comes back in fashion.
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My first thought on seeing this headline, was that it referred to going to a Walmart, a garlic festival or a bar on a Saturday night.
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This would be funny if it weren't rather sad.
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Boring and ugly. It just makes me wonder what happened to wanting to look attractive!
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Most of these extreme sports require cutting-edge fabric technology and are at the forefront of design in new lightweight materials. It makes sense that high fashion is catching on to their innovation. Why not use the latest and greatest textiles, especially when customers are paying top dollar for these designer garments?
Brands like Heron Preston (repurposing military-grade parachutes into jackets), A Cold Wall (partnering with Oakley to innovate fabric design) and Alyx 1017 (using Vibram hiking soles throughout their footwear collection) have proven they can take the best technology from athletic wear and apply it successfully to high fashion. Brands like Louis Vuitton on the other hand are just looking for profits. The company states their chalk bag "should be kept away from abrasive surfaces and out of direct sunlight" - rendering it essentially useless to anyone but the latest Hypebeast or Instagram influencer...
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Fashion for looking silly to anyone who has climbed anything, including stairs.
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Great! Now I won't have to change out of my decade-old, worn and tattered outdoor gear when I go out to a nice restaurant. Love it!
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Today's fashion is largely inspired and marketed by Instagram stories and images. Outdoor lifestyles, travel and "action sports" are some of the most successful categories on Instagram.
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Good climbing gear is expensive. I'd prefer to buy it from a mountain shop.
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Good grief.
By all means, high tech wear that defies the elements for people who take their car to go any more than a block.
Of course, as anyone who has spent time in the outdoors can tell you, the real mark of true, well-used outdoor gear is impossible-to-remove grime and stains. So I suppose next year's fashions will feature artistically-placed, authentic grass stains and the finest grime, imported from the Himalayas. And won't we all look fabulous then!
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@Eleanor...Yes,good grief is right ! Look no further than the intentionally torn bluejeans. This totally deplorable aesthetic is as bewildering as anything I've ever seen ! Couple them with constantly peering into your cell-phone and you will go some distance towards epitomizing the shallowness of today's 'culture.' Suddenly,my poor friends who work hard at physical labor all day here in Mexico are Fashionistas at the tip of the spear ! The irony...the horror.
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