All along, I try to refrain from setting my eyes on Chanel, because, I always have this fixation, that Chanel is for ladies! I was so wrong!!! My frequent visits to Fashion of Tokyo, has proven that!
The Japanese youngsters are welcoming vintage Chanel pieces with both arms and legs! I was amazed! I was flabbergasted! I am in awe!
It has never occur to me, boys or men could wear Chanel pieces so effordlessly!
Maybe I should start, sourcing for my very own vintage Chanel pieces, and adorn myself, with what I previously regard as feminine!
Lately, I have been breathing in Japanese street fashion, by visiting the Japanese blogs!
The rumour is TRUE, Japanese street fashion IS crazy!
I have not been to Japan myself, but I have heard so much good praises about their street fashion scenes are eccentric! I totally agree!
I have only two words to describe Japanese street fashion : WEIRD & ABSURD, which is a good thing! Because, because of them, it makes fashion a lot more livelier and fun! Fashion is NOT just about how right/perfect, things get together. It can also mean, how wrong things get mashed up together to create the unique fashion, which is only available in Japan!
I made a studies, and found out that, there are about 5 major elements one must adopt, in order to dress like them :-
1) You must have NO colour-sense!
Non-complementing colour contrasts, the ugliest the contrast, the better the effect!
2) Funny hair-cut
Regardless whether it (the haircut) suits your face shape or not, the priority is, DARE to be different!
It seems to me, we are compromising beauty with DARE to be different!
3) Funny colorful McDonald shoes! The bigger the better!
I am a shoes lover, and I have difficulty finding a picture featuring a pair of beautiful heels / sneaks!
4) Super Layering!
The more layers you wear, the better it is! The objective it to create "Christmas Tree" feel!
5) There is NO-RULE on the entire streets of Japan!
The silhouette is to achieve a non-proportionate fashion sense! Table-cloth to match with Hermes scarves, or layer with cheap stockings and lots of rugs!
If anyone of you has watched, Lady Gaga's new song, Born This Way music video, you wouldn't NOT remember seeing the zombie boy, in there!
As I watched the music video, I thought it was the wonder of powerful makeup!
I was half right, Lady Gaga IS wearing a makeup, to look like Rick Genest's real life tatttoo.
Co-star, Rick Genest, is NOT wearing any makeup, that's how he looks in his everyday life!
He is head to toe, fully inked, to satisfy his passion to be a zombie!
In an interview with Bizarre, Rick Genest explained why he turned himself into a zombie.
What look are you trying to achieve with your tattoos?
They’re about the human body as a decomposing corpse – the art of a rotting cadaver.
It’s also a tribute to horror movies, which I love.
What influenced your tattoos?
When I was a kid I was a big fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and I wanted to be a ninja turtle and live in the sewers. But as I got older I fell in love with zombies and wanted to become one.
Oh, and I love George A Romero’s Living Dead movies. Anyway, the closest thing I could get to becoming a zombie was to get tattooed like one.
I see my tattoos as celebrating the art of obscenity and the macabre.
What would you have changed?
I’d have a lot more blood in general, dripping and oozing everywhere.
I’d have loved to have blood pouring out of my eyes and a few more bugs here and there.
But it just didn’t happen like that.
It was Nicola Formichetti, Creative Director for Mugler, Fashion Director for Lady Gaga, Vogue Hommes Japan and Uniqlo, who spotted, Rick Genest, on Facebook and then a series good fortune bestow to Rick Genest!
Rick is now the star of the Fall 2011 Mugler Men's compaingn!
He is also featured in special Mugler spread in Vogue Homme Japan!
And of course, a co-star in Lady Gaga's Born This Way music video!
So, congrats to Rick Genest to your great success in the fashion world!
First of all, don't get me wrong!
Hermes does not have any collaboration project with streetwear shoes maker, Vans.
It was Robert Verdi, the creater, who custom made his Vans sneakers with his Hermes vintage scarves!
I must say, the result was extra-ordinary!
Who would thought of such crazy idea, to bring Heaven and Earth together, to bring around a new breed of species, which is here on Earth, to last?
I am sure, with Mr. Verdi's clever move, it will inspire many more to take things on their own hands to be the MAKERS!
Let's just hope, the future makers will create more surprises for us to gag on just like Robert Verdi did!
