today i did an open call for hot take requests on the blog. someone wrote thoughts on replica fashion so here is my hot take: first thing i ever owned was a guccy cap. i still have it and its almost broken. its been fiteen years and i have had a real one in the meantime. didnt love it. donated it to charity in the end cus it didnt feel glam. i appreciated the design and the quality of a real one, but a gucci cap is another type of object than lets say an iris van herpen, mcqueen or a small emerging designer's work: actual art pieces. the gucci monogram represents something else. it represents mass production, which does not bother me at all. i'm drawn to it, but for different reasons of why a mcqueen makes me gag. to me, the gucci monogram is the mass media of fashion, the mtv logo in the corner. the place anybody can access. real or fake. the logo is strong enough to exist on a real leather suitcase to the plastic version thats laying in the street, looking up at you from a l...
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