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Splattered in blues, yellows, and fluorescent reds, Corea paints a fresh, avant-garde, teenage look. By layering two dresses, Corea transforms a one-dimensional dress into a gradient of colors: from the dark grey top down to the mesh skirt popping with bursts of red. Offering us a glimpse of her soft side, Corea matches her tutu skirt with frilly socks, complementing each other in texture and fabric.
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Damn, you beat me to it...
The phone rings in the middle of the night
My father yells what you gonna do with your life
Oh daddy dear you know you're still number one
But girls they want to have fun
Oh girls just want to have fun, they just wanna they just wanna
I LOVE that song!!
That's pretty funny.
I know crap about fashion, but what's avant-garde about a look that was cliche by the late 1980s?
heh...good point.
But then again...everything's been done. What is original anymore?
Outrageous doesn't mean original, right?
So, I give her props for being brave enough to pull this off. (in public)
Yes, but avant-garde has a specific meaning that seems to not apply here.
True...what is so avant-garde about a watered down version of what Madonna did 20 some years ago?
HA! I gotta give you that one, Spook.
Well played, Spook...well played.
Spook wins.
Give her a purple acrylic tail and she would be the spitting image of the My Little Pony my gay ass had back in 1987. But if she wants to let her fashion freak flag fly, more power to her.
she's a lovely girl. but i'm convinced that if these crazy kids today actually lived through the 80s, they sure as heck wouldn't be repeating that style today. shudder.
I agree with everybody, as a man who spent his adolescence in the 1980s, how on earth can anyone get nostalgic for that shit? (Prince albums are excluded, though. Those are still fantastic.)
Yep,
Growing up in the '80s it's hard for me not to kinda laugh at all this, that goes for the endless mining of crummy '80s music too. Wish I would have kept my high top Nikes and fat neon laces, could'a ebayed the hell out of that shit.
There's a lot of music from that era that is great and that I still listen to without shame. Some of it synth, some of it the beginnings of the indie music scene, some of it the beginnings of the hip hop movement. Good stuff that stands up (to me).
The clothes, though, are another matter. I don't care how "cool" the Strokes, et al, think they are, I will NOT wear a skinny tie ever again and I will NOT push up my jacket sleeves.
As for this "model", if she's a teenager (and she appears to be), this is fine for her. If she's anywhere near 20 or over, she ought to be ashamed.
Well I didn't say "good" music did I ;)
I actually like this a lot. The color combos alone are great. Even though she looks young (the ruffles and lace) I think the gray ages it up. Seems I'm the minority with the thumbs up, though.
Ahem, "PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
props to her, even though i'm not a fan of 80s look.
This is by far the worst regular feature on Chicagoist...I don't care what stupid hipsters wear. If I wanted to see what stupid hipsters wear I'd seek them out.
It's a good thing, then, that not all the subjects are hipsters. If you don't like it, don't click on it.
I really enjoy seeing what different Chicagoans wear, especially in the challenging-to-dress-for winter months.
Even if I don't click on it, I still have to see the picture...I can't just block certain posts on the page. And they're pretty much all hipsters. Because if they're not wearing something "unique and totally different" then what's the point of featuring them? They don't feature some dude going to work in a suit or some college kid in jeans and a t-shirt.
"I really enjoy seeing what different Chicagoans wear, especially in the challenging-to-dress-for winter months."
You might try walking around Chicago if that's what you're going for. Just a thought.
What's your point? While I'm at work, on a computer, I read Chicagoist. My job doesn't allow me to walk around Chicago, like you suggest. Or, for all you know I live in NYC and like to see how Chicago style is represented through this medium.
Just a thought here, but could the 80's look depicted here be considered retro??
Well, seeing as how this is the year 2009 and the 80s were three decades ago, yeah, this could be called retro. Sort of like the rockabilly revival of the 80s was retro.
I have tried to block out any memories of fashion from 1977 - 1987. But then again, I have always been a jeans and tshirt kinda person. I did buy a Members Only jacket only to wear it once, get a grip on myself, and give it to my brother....
Yeah, I have to admit I made a few concessinos to 80s fashion/style during that time (studded leather wristband that in retrospect might have seemed kinda S/M; skinny ties; Docs; some weird shirt that buttoned across the chest like one of those Howdy-Doody cowboy shirts; bandanas tied somewhere on me; long pre-Columbine army trench coat). Good thing I was and am photo-shy.
Yeah, the 80s are now retro. I see many heavy metal teenagers wearing Iron Maiden t-shirts and signifying their old-school credentials by bragging about Metallica's Master Of Puppets album. Technically, they're quite right. They're just missing the camoflauge pants to match the t-shirt.
I, too, watch these kids attempt '80s fashion but not get it quite right, and it always makes me wonder how far off my own perception of '60s fashion is. It probably didn't look much like I imagine it at all.
Well, true headbangers had mullets, and the outline of a lighter and possibly a joint the pockets of their frayed demin jackets, and--if puberty had been especially generous--some sketchy facial hair that might impress a girl after the second or third half-warm can of Busch. Sure, the girl would probably start puking after the fifth can, but there was a window of opportunity there.
These kids today ...
i could have sworn i was going to be in this week's feature.
have you been dressing your best, matty?
i think so!
Colorful, youthful, bright and fun. She's lovely to boot. Nice one folks.
Hmm, so that means the next generation will be about grunge? I shouldn't have donated all those flannel shirts back to Goodwill (where I originally bought them).