I think this article over at High Snobiety about Julia Chesky’s photograph series “The Original Hipster” was probably supposed to be about something different, especially with a quote like “I’m calling this series The Original Hipster because on most days he doesn’t even look like he’s truly homeless.“ but the only thing that I took away from it was that hipsters are just trust fund kinds spending lots of money to look like they are homeless, because as you can see, this guy totally looks homeless all the time.
I have to say though, it’s the Mark Jacobs bag next to him in all of the pictures that really makes these pictures what they are. I’m pretty sure that at some point someone’s fall line is just going to be clothes they have stolen from bums and the prescient view of the future portrayed in Zoolander will come true as we Derelict from Marni for fall 2012.
The one thing that Julia gets wrong about this is Chris here is totally lacking in any sense of unwarranted self importance that is always plastered across the face of any real hipster. Good try though, maybe next time do a series of dogs with scarves on, everyone loves hipster dogs.
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