This guy has a blog called Kate Loves Me
The hipsters (but don't call them that) of east London are all up in arms/finding hilarious/burning with shameful recognition (delete as appropriate) at the video at the bottom of this post (yet another one) parodying their social habits and belief-system. It is hilarious.
Oh and if you thought the term hipster (don't call them that!!!) was something that went out with 1970s, think again. If you don't know what a hipster is, read the short "send-up" below of what they stand for (taken from the Hipster Handbook), and know that every cool kid you know who wears nerdy glasses and a funny moustache secretly, or sort of secretly identifies as one. For the record, if I were 24 again I would probably be part of this social group who have become extremely influential during the recession. In fact, I would be so bold as to say that the talented among this generation are this decades next creative, fashion and maybe even intelligentsia A-list.
The hipster kids are also top of the inspiration agenda for the most fashiony and forward of fashion designers. Tom Ford's eyewear campaign owes everything to Hipsters. Marc Jacobs might have given up the look for himself when he went into rehab, but his brand DNA follows the Hipster Fashion Cycle, below, exactly.
Definition of a Hipster
Hipster - one who possesses tastes, social attitudes and opinions that are deemed cool by the cool. The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not part of them, and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything that is held dear by the mainstream.
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Now watch this funny video, taking the total piss out of them. On Friday when I first saw it only 300,000 people had seen it, now the figure is approaching 1.4 million. Proving to me that this hipster phenomenon, is a lot bigger than the hipsters (shaddap calling them that) themselves realise.
IMAGES: West of Wabsania and Prince Pelayo of Kate Loves Me
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Is it wrong that I think this video is hilarious?
ReplyDeleteMichelle
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Fabulous - the phrase 'too cool for school' springs to mind!You may also like http://unknownhipster.com/
ReplyDeleteThat was so well done LOL!
ReplyDeletethat diagram is too true.
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me - haven't watched Nathan Barley for ages...
ReplyDeleteI live in East London and I think the video is hilarious! xx
ReplyDeletethank god I found you, Fashion Editor!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat is way funnier than the Emo Song (oh lawdy, how retro!). It's so true and made me smile, I go to art school and I know WAY too many people who are basically that.
ReplyDeleteHipsters Ruin Everything. FACT.
They're part of the reason many charity shops are now so expensive as to be unviable to shop in because they're just so fashionable to be seen shopping in, well, that, Celebrities, Primark and ebay. But I refuse to stop liking weird old crap because it's now cool to do so. I'm proud to be a total geek and dislike this trend because I need my glasses to actually see and these are the same people now wearing them because they're fashionable that made fun of me in school for being a 'freak' and wearing rediculously colourful tights and the like (it was the only way to make the uniform more interesting). The only advantage is you can now get 50p fake glasses from Primani for cosplay since they're now 'so last century'.