It’s fun to be a pretentious twat when you’re in college and come up with a bunch of high-concept bullshit that dialectically reorders the nexus of gender and class, but more often than not the best artwork comes from the simplest places. Like having legs on your mind. Enlarge/Comments DOs & DON'Ts
I know you think the roller blades, flip-flops, sweatpants, unnecessary safety gear, fanny pack, ridiculous heart-monitor thing on his arm, tucked-in t-shirt, lame group activities, and late-80s Soviet rocker hair might have disqualified him from the DOs. But he clearly understands exactly what type of person he is (an oblivious loser) and is using clothing and accessories to communicate that fact, both to people who might be interested in the same things he is as well as people who don’t want anything to do with him. And isn’t that what style’s all about? Enlarge/Comments DOs & DON'Ts