I became vaguely aware of this… fashion trend? a few years ago on reddit. And it seems there is now at least one Lemmy community devoted to it.
So genuine question - is all streetwear just an elaborate joke, like when that guy put a urinal in an art museum to make a point about the nature of art? Because it seems like the unifying theme in streetwear is that it all looks like it is intentionally bad. Like the designer saw all the ways normal people dressed themselves poorly, and emphasized those traits. If I saw someone walking down the street in clothes I normally see posted on /c/streetwear, I would wonder what kind of bet they lost.
Do I just not “get” art? Am I now just one of the olds? What is going on here?
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I used to think that. But then I realized that art is an appreciation of beauty both within and outside the realms of conventional tastes. I realized my own tastes had become aligned with the commercial zeitgeist and I was shutting out other creative expressions that, while unconventional, had merit by its own right - by simply existing. I had become the barrier to expression by my crass judgement, and by extension, the gatekeeper of what I professed to love - creativity.
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is a beautiful and thoughtful answer.
QuizzaciousOtter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Wow, these are my thoughts, expressed in a way I woud never able to express them.