"Styles which start life on the street corner have a way of ending up on the backs of top models on the world’s most prestigious fashion catwalks. This shouldn’t surprise us because the authenticity which streetstyle is deemed to represent is a precious commodity."Everyone wants a piece of it."
Ted Polhemus

27 Aug 2010

Fashion for the city

Camuflaje verde y marrón para la jungla,
Camuflaje blanco para la nieve,
Camuflaje beige para el desierto,
Vestirse a la moda para la ciudad.


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Green camouflage for the jungle
White camouglage for the snow
Beige camouflage for the desert,
Fashion for the city.

26 Aug 2010

Back in the days... I

Si había algo intenso a comienzos de la primer decada del siglo XXI, era el under porteño. El formato común era el de festival, en el cual, con la excusa de bandas en vivo, se sumaban artistas de todo tipo exhibiendo sus creaciones pseudónimas.
Recitales de bandas nuevas en todos los rincones, sucuchos y sotanos existentes, exhibiciones de pintura y fotografía, instalaciones, lecturas de poesía; todo eso en manos de adolescentes niños que sabían hacerse un espacio eludiendo el "derecho de piso" de galeristas, productoras, contratos y dinero de por medio. Estaba todo al alcance de la mano.
No duró mucho. A fines de 2004 se prende fuego Cromagnon y cambia la escena por completo. Tocar en vivo era imposible, y todas las actividades que giraban al rededor de eso, también.
Para ese entonces, los adolescentes niños ya tenían veintipico, estudiaban, trabajaban y se empezaban a camuflar entre el común de la gente.

2003 ~ Cemento
Festival de Bandas (entre ellas, Cabezones y Carajo)
a banda LUXURIA y amigos





2003 ~ Encuentro del foro de yahoo "gothdarkwave",
lugar de encuentro para la cultura postpunk, gótica e industrial de la época. Este mix de estilos se dió gracias a lugares como Requiem, Pantheón, las épicas fiestas de Los Eternos, Gothic BA, Kreuz Halle, etc.




1999 - 2004
Flyers de REQUIEM

Hoy en día, todo ha vuelto a resurgir con nuevos aires, nueva gente, nuevas tribus y nueva música. Es cuestión de pispear un poco a lo nuevo, y por qué no, ver en que andan aquellos que supieron hacer el under en los 2000.

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English Version

If something intense existed back in the first decade of theXXIst century, was the Buenos Aires underground scene. The common format was festival-like, and, with the excuse of live concerts, grouped artists of multiple kinds exhibiting their “pseudonimous” creations.
There were concerts all the time, introducing new bands in every corner, basement and pub; photographic and artistic exhibitions, instalations, poetry readings in the hand of just teen kids that knew how to make space for themselves eluding the “earned place” of gallerists, producers, contracts and money. Everything was at hand.
It didn’t last long. When the year 2004 was fading, Cromagnon, a nightclub sets on fire and changes the scene completly. Playing live was imposible, and all the artistic expressions that came with the pack, too.
At that time anyways, those teen kids, where now young adults, studied or worked, and were starting to camouflage themselves with common clothes and common people.
Nowadays, everything has come back to life, new winds, new people, new tribes and new music. It’s a matter of paying atention, watching what’s going on right now, and why not, see what are doing those that knew what to do with the under scene back in the 2000.


3 Aug 2010

STREETSTYLE by Ted Polhemus

El 15 de septiembre se reedita el legendario libro del Ted Polhemus (el gurú de la moda urbana), StreetStyle. Su primer versión, editada en 1994, fue, como dice Chloe Sevigny de The New York Times, mi biblia. Años mas tarde, pude fundar este blog, inspirada en ese libro y con la indispensable ayuda y bendición del mismisimo autor.
El libro ha sido aumentado y corregido. Contiene una mayor cantidad de material fotográfico que incluye varias de las fotos que figuran en este blog. El encargado de la edición es "PYMCA photographic youth music culture", a su vez agente de las fotografías incluídas en el libro, de los archivos de Ted Polhemus, Paul Hartnett y míos, entre otros. Pueden acceder a las incontables galerías sobre cultura joven en www.pymca.com. Bastíon para cualquiera interesado en tribus urbanas, estilos musicales y estilo urbano.


“Streetstyle is my sartorial bible” –
Chloe Sevigny in The New York Times.

Without the Hipsters, Teddy Boys, Beats, Rockabillies, Rude Boys, Mods, Surfers, Hippies, Punks, B-Boys, Ravers, Harajuku Girls - and all the other streetstyle originals – most of us would be left without anything to wear. But the sharp suits, leather jackets, jeans, kaftans, flares, DMs, slick locks and so forth are only the visible, tangible part of this legacy. Oozing through the clothes, hairstyles, make-up and accessories is an attitude. An attitude which perhaps more than any other set the tone of life in the second half of the twentieth century and which shows no sign of dissipating in the twenty-first.

‘The Street’ is both the stage upon which this drama unfolds and the bottom line metaphor for all that is presumed to be real and happening in our world today. In the past, ‘Western Culture’ was most at ease and most recognisable within grand interiors. Today, as high culture has given way to popular culture in the 20th century’s most significant social revolution, it is the litmus test of ‘street credibility’ rather than that of class, which is crucial. If it won’t cut it on the corner, forget it.

First published by Thames and Hudson in 1994, Streetstyle has been a revelation right from its launch at London’s legendary V&A Museum, where the world’s most respected style pioneers toasted the birth of the world’s flagship styletribe tome.

This fully updated edition will feature nearly 100 extra pages with a four page bound insert, 5 new chapters, including over 250 compelling images, all packed into 224 devilishly stylish pages.


*Available 15th September 2010*

Author:

Ted Polhemus

Edition:

Soft Cover, 224 pp 205mm x 255mm
ISBN 978-0-9562788-1-4

Price: £19.95 + £5.00 Postage

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