tl;dr is a weekly roundup of the best posts on Highsnobiety written by Four Pins alumnus, Jon Moy. He kindly hopes you’ll read it more than you did Four Pins.
You ever have a dope teacher that will just level with you that the lecture that day was going to be brutal?
In high school I took this science class that was supposed to be an interdisciplinary approach to science and it was like, 2.5 times longer than every other class, and every once in a while my teacher would be like, “Guys, today is going to be terrible. It’s all notes and theory, but if we get it out of the way today and tomorrow, on Friday we’ll watch this super gnarly National Geographic documentary the whole class.”
And the documentaries were always gnarly. They would center on the only source of fresh water in like 25 miles so every predator and every type of prey would all be at the same spot at the same time or a bunch of scientists talking about the most plausible modes of long-term space travel, or I remember this one about, like, a Rockefeller that got killed and possibly eaten in New Guinea?
Anyways, today’s gonna be one of those days where all we do is look at new collections and maybe actually kind of talk about them. Before we do all that, check out these Reebok Workout Lo Cleans. Workout Lo Clean is a really unwieldly name for a really clean all white sneaker. That is all on the Reebok Workout Lo Cleans.
GOETZE has a name that kind of makes me think of Goethe probably because they’re only one letter apart. But that’s not why we’re discussing their spring summer collection. We’re talking about the Berlin label because the black trousers make me think of J. Crew Giants. I mean that as the highest compliment.
I know a lot of people are like, “The J. Crew barn jacket is the best thing they’ve ever done, Sid Mashburn designed it,” but the J. Crew Giant Chino was the best fucking thing that company has ever done ever. If J. Crew was real they’d stop dicking around with making Engineered Garment Lite collections and just re-release the Giant.
Don’t act like that tangent on a late ’90s cut of chino a mall brand sold was a tangent at all because blown out gear is back. If I was giving a power point presentation or using the overhead projector I would hit you with the first set of looks from Tonsure. I’m pretty sure I saw a sweater vest in the collection and to be honest, I’m not that bummed about it.
I feel like sweater vests could be a thing but could also make you look like your friend’s dad that has a super nice ‘media room’ but doesn’t let his kids watch movies in it so then when he’s out at an alumni charity golf tournament his kids invite over their friends and they all smoke weed in his media room and leave cigarette butts in the sink of his wet bar and tell their friends they’ve never apologized to him like that’s a normal fucking state of a nuclear family.
UNDERCOVER just released an incredibly high definition collection. Designed with no underlying concept in mind, the collection meanders throughout the totality of Jun Takahashi’s archives and inspirations arriving at a well-rounded and considering the season, particularly robust offering that ranges from parkas and knits to leather jackets and cargo shorts.
I want an Undercover blanket so badly so I can judge people who come over to my apartment and don’t notice that I own an Undercover blanket in the same way my grandma judges people who come over to her house and don’t take their shoes off. She never says anything but the way she looks at them is withering.
Next week I promise nothing I write will be about the hyperlinks contained within the paragraphs.
— Jon Moy
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