Are yall going to stop wearing solid coloured American Appy products and start wearing Afrikan products? Or does it is it too ‘entry-level alt’ for your authentic personal brand?(kind of like AmyCore)
I often wonder about the direction of American Apparel over the next century/1 million blog years. How will they keep their powerful brand alive? Will people keep buying solid coloured shirts? Will they setup a factory in a different American city and take pay above-market wages to a different set of legalized minorities?
Do u know if new colours can still be invented, or did some1 already invent all of them? <3 RoyG. Biv <3 Should I change HRO’s colours to AFRIKAN ones?
N e ways, what did yall do this weekend?
Save Afrika?
http://store.americanapparel.net/afrika.html
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that afircan print is hot
and i think its tight!
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I so called this happening on the blipster post a while ago. ZIMBABWE PRINTS!!!!!!!!
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*scoff*
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i got mad
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smiles
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yeah! i will get a lot gay kiss wit leggins like that.
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I will clothe my wife and myself in these all winter.
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plz google “pokemones” in Chile
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LOL
i agree u should write about ‘pokemones’ from chile xD
n_n
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OH this is BAD!!! I am scrd
I Like girls in sold colors I don’t know what my mind is going to do with this black and white prints that are designed by starving ethiopian people.
Why is Afrika so PoPulAr. Some people tell me because they want to stop being consumers and can appreciate the different way of life over there.
Am I a bad person for not thinking about afrika that much??
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is it cool cause africa is spelled wrong?
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Is this a post about M.I.A.?
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anon 6:58 – mos def.
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Everything is about M.I.A. somehow.
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funny! my first inclination upon reading this post was to try to post a mia mp3 in the comments page.
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this is clearly MIA coming back from the dead. how quaint of her. lets all dress in tiger leggings.
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Colonizing voices has been popular since 1K+897, so it’s not a surprise that American Apply is eroticizing, and commodifying the mythologies of darkest africa, since the narratives of the West, now, serve as platitudes. More ink is bled for marketing than prose. And so it goes.
The foundational grounding for personal brands are tracers from the mythologizing ‘me’, like I do you.
Ultimately, hipsters fail to recognize the contradiction of ‘authenticity’ in advanced capitalist societies. The purchasing of consumer goods to further codify one’s myth, is a cyclical affair, like listening to an 8th note stretched over a millenia. If their vignettes were sped up, most of their lives would be substitutable.
p.s. I admire your writing. It makes me lol.
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As an alt who cares about fair wages I’m torn between wearing AA just to be fashionable vs. socially conscious. Will other alts perceive my personal brand as being “authentically” socially conscious or simply fashionable? I’m greatly concerned about being perceived as the later and reject AA as having gone mainstream. Surely I can’t be the only alt with this dilemma.
And it should also be mentioned that AA does make shirts in styles other than simply “solid color”…. I SWEAR I was only in there for like 15 seconds.
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HEY CARLES.
This weekend, i got REALLY drunk and smoked some weed and them i vomited and passed out at midnight and it was embarrassing. I’m not smoking weed again, well i’m never drinking beer then smoking weed ‘beer then grass your on your ass, grass then beer your in the clear’ too true. Other than that i chilled with my heathens.
U?
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what’s with the k already
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Bring back the Cross Color brand! Is this the beginning of the bringing back of Afro awareness like in the late 80s and early 90s.
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These new products have defeated the entire appeal of AmAppy 4 me.
AmAppers is about making easily recognizable garments that u wear for the sole purpose of being easily recognized by your equally easily recognizble poseur peers. Why can’t generic clothing companies stop trying 2 be ‘authentic’ yall?
Solid colours 4 evr. Hot-pink manties 4 lyfe.
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i can’t see gheys or blacks wearing n e of this.
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