HOT OR NOT
Last month i wrote lil hot/not list for NUDA paper's newsletter (fashionblogs for companies).
HOT:
SPACE THERAPY
LOW KEY GLAMOUR
SHITPOSTING
NOT:
DRESSING DOWN
ARTISTS
TELLING PEOPLE WHAT TO DO
HOT:
SPACE THERAPY
With the ★star★ being the symbol of our generation and the indie sleaze/tumblr nostalgia taking on, it would be rude not to mention space. A word gotten lost because it has been refereres to as something you create/take/need. I’m talking SPACE as in the UNIVERSE, MILKY WAYS and GALAXIES. Last year, my stoner lifestyle came with a mania for black holes which expanded to an obsession with the whole universe. My advice in hard times is to watch the 29 minute “timelapse of the future” on YouTube. It takes you through the universe till the end of time. That’s some real trend forecasting. Our time on earth is a total 0,0000001 mili sec of the total lifetime of the universe. It’s giving nothing matters. The universe is built from chaos and when the chaos ends the universe ends. Nihilistic poetry for dramatic bitches.
LOW KEY GLAMOUR
When I moved back to CPH the disappointment over never finding glamour in the city would overshadow the cute and clowny cringeness the scandi chicness had to offer instead. So I stopped looking for glamour anywhere else than within myself and in the details. I recommend:
Dressing up. High heels give you perspective to see above the bullshit.
Cakes (the stiletto of the food pyramid): Buying one makes you feel rich. Baking one yourself makes you feel wholesome. Dressing like one is dramatic and cute - think lace, ruffles, bows and sequins.
Coffee to-go: When I was 12 I would get a hot cocoa in a to-go cup and talk with myself on my clap phone to simulate being a yuppie on the go. I am still larping that fantasy today, and I buy so many 7-eleven hot drinks that their loyalty stamp card gives me one free cup a week. Hot tip: Add an espresso shot to your chai latte, and voila you have a dirty chai, which is the glam version of a pumpkin spice latte.
SHITPOSTING
Nothing is sexier than an unhinged queen. Once you truly fall in love with your own delusion and dumbness you are free to do whatever you want. Let ur main insta be your finsta. Shitpost. Make a blog. Wear a flag. Live, laugh, lobotomy!
NOT:
DRESSING DOWN
In the decadent times before the financial crisis having money was in and rich kids and nepo babies were cool. The wealth and parental neglect was a hot and mysterious combo. Money was sexy and you proudly wore it on your sleeve. Logomania, preppy boys and gossip girls. But the post-financial crisis rich kids are different and ashamed of their trust funds disguising their socio-economic capital by dressing poorly, changing names and wanting to be artists. Dressing down is a red flag. Dress up instead and own it: It’s classy to talk about class.
ARTISTS
Read above. Artists are out, except for Anna Delvey.
TELLING PEOPLE WHAT TO DO
Trends are the biggest trend right now, really. Trendsetters from the suburbs and the underground have iPhones now, and in this silly little globalized world, creating or discovering a trend is one tik-tok away. Social media is overflowing with trends, and as every trend comes with a countertrend as well, lists like these are deemed to drown in the deluge. Trying to raise yourself above an ocean of trends does not make a reliable trend forecaster, because how can you tell what the mess is all about when you are in fact a hot mess yourself? After years of moral panic, I think telling people what to do is the only thing that's NOT trending at the moment. Do whatever you want. Everything that's out is in. Even artists.
xoxo
drawings by Anna Delvey:
I have been looking around for this kind of information. Will you post some more in future? I’ll be grateful if you will.
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