Posts with tag hipsters

-As proof the 90s have returned, check out this video by Tilly and the Wall -- the Nebraska-spawned indie-pop outfit adored by hipster types everywhere. [via fashionindie]

-Alicia Douval, some British "model" famous for getting it on with celebrities and then telling the tabloids, is really proud of her 12-year-old daughter. Not because the tween made her junior high soccer team, scored an A in algebra, or got a bunch of Girl Scout brownie points -- but because she wants a "boob job" (so she can be famous like Britney Spears!). While she admires her daughter's enthusiasm, Alicia thinks it's best to wait until she's older. You know, like 16. [Sun]

Now hipsters can use sex to sway political opinion -- just like the grown-ups! [Damn I Like That!]

Save $15 on purchases over $100 at Bluefly. Sweet. [Budget Fashionista]

Alexander McQueen is way too self-important artistic for schmoozing, celebrities, and promoting himself. So much so, that he hopes Paris Hilton won't show up at the opening of his new LA store. Zing. Kind of. [Catwalk Queen]

A bunch of fully-clothed women freak out like they're suddenly naked in public. It's an ad for Downy Softener, and it's surprisingly funny. [Trend Hunter]

Eco-friendly fashion is lame and expensive. [Second City Style]

Finally! Now women can pee on the go. [Jezebel]

If you believe this Christian Lorentzen article in the most recent edition of Time Out NY, hipsters are killing cool. "These hipster zombies -- now more likely to be brokers or lawyers than art-school dropouts -- are the idols of the style pages, the darlings of viral marketers and the marks of predatory real-estate agents. And they must be buried for cool to be reborn."

Lorentzen's main beef with hipsters seems to be that some of them have jobs and can afford nice apartments in trendy neighborhoods. Yawn. This argument is dragged out every few years when a particular sub-culture gains mainstream popularity, and is no longer isolated to pretentious coffee shop employees and unemployed cultural elitists. The hippies sold out, punk is dead, hipsters have day jobs -- so what?

All of it proves one point: Lorentzen has no idea what cool is, and has become -- more or less -- a grumpy old curmudgeon wistful for his glory days (before these darn kids mucked it all up). There will be another trend, another subculture, another fad, and it will start amongst the broke, starving artists in the sketchiest urban neighborhoods, and hipsters will become a thing of the past. Then those kids will get older, make more money, and they will become mainstream.

Why Time Out is so surprised by this phenomenon, and upset by lawyers trying to be cool, is completely beyond me.