Appalling in a bad way...They got hammered pretty good for this one...
No argument about the comparative magnitude. But why drag Buk into an inane article about fashion? Of course it isn't supposed to be terribly serious or literary. So what's next, Bukowski cocktails, prepared by "mixologists?" Gag me with a spoon.And in the scheme of things, 1,000 editorial fashion spreads using Bukowski's name (in the right spirit or not) aren't as bad as one murdered poem in a book with his name on the cover.
If you're a fashion editor at Vice your job is to sell clothes to young women. If you're a fashion editor at Vice and a Bukowski fan and you want to work his name into something, what are you going to do? An article about loud polyester shirts and slacks from Sears?why drag Buk into an inane article about fashion?
"banality of concept and execution" is the goal of most fashion editorials.If banality of concept and execution was their goal, then you may be right.
No argument about that, whatsoever, MJP. STILL - YES, I want the article about the shirts and slacks from Sears. That's where I shopped (Santa Monica and Western) myself, at around the same time that Buk was living on Carlton. The shirts were not LOUD, however. What they WERE was inexpensive and functional. Period. THAT was Bukowski fashion. Just sayin.If you're a fashion editor at Vice your job is to sell clothes to young women. If you're a fashion editor at Vice and a Bukowski fan and you want to work his name into something, what are you going to do? An article about loud polyester shirts and slacks from Sears?
Again, MJP, I find myself essentially in agreement with you, from a relativity/comparison standpoint. That having been said - I STILL gag when I see shit like that. Oh, one more thing, but it's just my own little thing: I never liked ANY mainstream bands. So that analogy doesn't really work for me."banality of concept and execution" is the goal of most fashion editorials. [...] If we're not careful we'll start to sound like the people who turn on their favorite band when they become popular and mainstream.
Yes:) do it, because it would be a lot more original, funny and interesting. But don't try to evoke Factotum and not put some effort into capturing even a little of the right mood. As roni said, the surroundings were way to clean.If you're a fashion editor at Vice and a Bukowski fan and you want to work his name into something, what are you going to do? An article about loud polyester shirts and slacks from Sears?
There's a Bukowski Grill in Brixton isn't there. No doubt full of fucking 'hipsters'.Similarly, I don't really want to be eating Bukowski burgers with a side of Orwell onion rings.
I liked the early-90s-fashion-photography by Jürgen Teller, Corinne Day and the likes.[...] what kind of fashion photographs could possibly be relevant to anyone born after 1980 and still be accurate to Bukowski's world? [...]