derek guy
Menswear writer. Editor at @putthison. Creator of @RLGoesHard. Bylines at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter
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HOW FASHION BRANDS DIE (A STRUCTURAL VIEW) 𧡠Tiffany and Nike announced a collab today, leading to a lot of debate on Twitter (does it suck, does it not suck). I think it sucks, b...
@KellyDiels ... but it socially means nothing. here are two examples. both these pics show outfits that mean something: businessman vs rugged cowboy. this is a result of how thes...
there's a very painful period when you see guys start to pay attention to clothes and they start to dress worse than they did before they started paying attention to clothes https:...
@RobertERitz @natso_much There was an NYT article a very long time ago on the production chain for Apple's iPhones. They looked at everyone involved in making these phones, from th...
@natso_much You should be ashamed for lying about what I said about you. Not once did I disparage Mongolian people. I said you were being a chauvinistic nationalist for insisting t...
there should be a term like "greenwash" for DTC. just as companies use sustainability as a marketing gimmick, losing all the nuance in a complicated subject, tons of companies use...
@Manlaibaatr @xuezhao The quality of a sweater is more than just where the fiber was sourced. Most cashmere fiber is sourced from Mongolia, China, and parts of Afghanistan. Yet, we...
a lot of fashion writing feels too inside baseball. most people don't care about super niche trends, designer collections, or the latest happenings with famous people. but they may...
@925__silver feel like people commonly misuse the term class, where they use it in a marxist sense, but use the term to refer to income. class in the marxist sense is structualist-...
imagine being a construction worker and not being able to find carhartt double knee pants bc graphic designers bought them all
HOW BIG ARE THE PROFIT MARGINS IN FASHION? 𧡠Someone recently made a TikTok about the Brick Watch Company debacle, and one of the channel's viewers asked how this is any different...
biden dresses a lot better than trump, but i wish he went with peak lapels or a shawl collar here. notch lapels on a dinner rig is π https://t.co/6QgzHwuLju