Fashion fieldtrip

[imomus]

Nick, Hisae, Mario and Sruli mounted a fieldtrip to the Marzahn district of East Berlin yesterday to come up with viable alternatives to the Fashion Goth look. People, there must be some.



First stop on our day of, ahem, urban exploration was the Asia-Center on Meeraner Strasse, out by the Allee der Kosmonauten. Filled with bun and pho soup, we strode boldly into the wholesale units and purchased (retail) some mooncakes and a flowery blue housecoat which Hisae can wear while doing Fashion Housework. Then we admired pink crystals in a mega-Garden Centre and muzzles in a mega-Petstore. After that we poked around an abandoned Russian Culture Centre and an even more abandoned "crankyhouse spa". Finally we regressed to childhood, pedalling a gigantic tricycle around a car park in the grounds of what looked like a horse hospital.

Highlight of the day: getting thrown out of a mega-DIY superstore for looking more like tools than the tools they stocked.

Music: Bauhaus, of course.

Mood: Emotional Communist.

Comments

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

Couldn't you just keep the black clothes, and alter the pretense to your desired size and shape?

Minimono

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Fashion Totalitarian is a bit close to Fashion Goth.

[mustt.livejournal.com]

are you aware of what's written on this "russian culture center"

[imomus.livejournal.com]

No, what does it say?

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

what is written on your black T? I like your "shoes". a gothic donald duck pair of flippers they look like.

[(Anonymous)]

Fashion Comb-Over.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The T-shirt says "Electric Last Minute By Cornelius". I like it because it's set in the old Letraset typeface Shatter. The shoes are Birkenstocks, bought from a uniform shop on Karl Marx Allee. The trousers are thick German Navy strides from Humana, and I always wear them with a poncho for the "Dutch Postman" look. The look produces strange reactions in the Germans, though, so maybe they have other associations. A homeless man ran up to me on Warschauer Str. yesterday shouting and gesticulating. It's probably for the best that I had no idea what he was saying.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

All the best poets have them, they look like laurel leaves. Check the busts!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Alexander Pope.

livejournaly

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

there are a number of folks who regularly roll around my neighborhood on giant unicycles. no tricycles though.

did you give the trike a try or just watch?

[freddster.livejournal.com]

funny!

[dermfitz.livejournal.com]

"Christian Church - the Light of Awakening."

[imomus.livejournal.com]

By all the gods! So we're being Fashion Christians in that photo!

[dermfitz.livejournal.com]

You do look kind of beatific.

[framework.livejournal.com]

Olympia, WA is the capital of Fashion Toddlers.

[eptified.livejournal.com]

I wish I had m. fashion totalitarian's lips.

[iloveacomputer.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking though (if this came up in the last post, I didn't read all of it and I apologise)... but aren't a lot of fashion goths like the straight edge kids etc really die hard christians? It's pretty weird.

Also, I have dyed almost black hair and a septum piercing, does that alone qualify me for fashion goth status?

Re: livejournaly

[jimyojimbo.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I just have the image in my head of Dan Ashcroft standing in the office of the Weekend on Sunday saying, "But... But they ride around on plastic tractors..." hee hee

(Obv not a slight on your friends, mr. M)

[theydontloveyou.livejournal.com]

unfortunately the Football Fan is really just an updated version of Where's Waldo.

letraset shatter

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

"A basic sans serif letterform was used to create the impression of broken glass in this unique typeface. Shatter is a long-time favorite of users of Letraset type products. Created by talented designer Vic Carless."

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/letraset/shatter/

Re: livejournaly

[imomus.livejournal.com]

All the best LiveJournalists ride around on miniature vehicles. Like david_f on his tiny motorcycle (http://photos21.flickr.com/25121119_32b6c44faf_o.jpg).

Re: livejournaly

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, but that thing looks fantastic. There's actually an element of danger, there! You could have your knees off.

google earth

[(Anonymous)]

for you who lovebeauty in a airplane , check google earth, its a incredible thing adn its free.
florian.

'fashion! turn to the left, fashion! turn to the right'

[violaine8.livejournal.com]

Getting thrown out of a store eh? My, must have been hilarious!

Great post.

[artysmokes.livejournal.com]

Fashion Hound is scaring me. Is his bark worse than his bite?

Fashion housewife looks great. Every home should have one.
But where is Fashion Househusband?