guy’s stuff

i think one of the phenomenons in fashion that i personally believe is rather cool is the Kidult, purely in the fashion sense. i mean… think about the converse situation. everytime you see a kid DRESSED like an adult, don’t you think “TOO COOL/CUTE!”. (i do, however, hate kids who ACT like adults. bleaughx).

(Photo Credit: Ralph Lauren Kids. i actually have a really really great lookbook from Dior Kids but i can’t seem to find stills on the internet. those photos are CRAZY cool and cute, but this is kinda awww-ish as well)

so the Kidult, is basically an adult who dresses with semblances of a kid.

look at kanye (Photo Credit : The Sartorialist). the shirt is just screaming 6-year old print. yet theres a sophistication to the outfit and the overall effect is just super chic.

dressing like a kidult is cool but i guess only a certain type of guy can pull it off well. a guy who is inherently stylish yet whose taste levels are not completely questionable. it really is all about attitude. as ironic as it sounds, i believe the kidult needs to have some kind of maturity to be successful.

the above 2 runway looks are taken from D&G and Jeremy Scott. (ps i really wanted those gladiator sandals from d&g, but they didnt have my size by the time i was prepared to pay for them. haha)

jeremy scott is really one of the more kidult-ish designers out there. at an extreme of course. his clothes are quirky, dramatic and fun, but not particularly wearable. almost very couture in that sense, yet, not in the full meaning of the word.

a more well balanced designer would be marc jacobs and his diffusion marc by marc jacobs line. i’ll refrain from featuring too much of his stuff, if not this site will become almost a shrine to him, but i really do love his designs. i mean. i probably will do an entry on my favourite designers sooner or later, so i’ll refrain from going into why i love his clothes so much here.

(Photo Credit: Marc Jacobs SS 07 & SS 06)

there is just such style to all of his garments. his outfits as a whole are always really well balanced, and this is why i think marc’s clothes are the only ones i will wear a complete head to toe outfit of. haha.

i think one of the more memorable statements that i remember reading marc saying (or at least i remember it as marc), is that he’d rather a man be stylish than fashionable.

back to the idea of the Kidult, kids these days are becoming increasingly fashionable. this kid from paris looks barely 14 (Photo Credit : The Sartorialist) and yet his outfit is beyond fierce. and those shoes.

those shoes. those shoes. those shoes.

reference back to footwear entry 01. lol.

i think there is this big idea about growing up that we as individuals always fight against and often we forget that by embracing said ideas, we might end up, as elle woods would say, so much better than before. thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis, yada yada. haha.

i guess the whole idea is to not take fashion so seriously, the way we used to be when we were kids. to feel what we feel and really go with it. although as cosmo shows us (below), dressing up and looking dapper sometimes does have its allure.