INNIT wrote:is wearing corduroy pant with black tshirts and sweaters normcore? sorrry still hung up on this
this question has got me strung up because my f/w uniform of late has been corduroy pants, a sweater, a nylon rain jacket, and clarks desert boots. slim and inoffensive. answering INNIT's question: you certainly wouldn't be wrong to suggest that i'm assuming a normcore energy, a certain casual aesthetic, a certain just look-past-this. but I would personally say that this outfit I'm describing is not similar to the state of new york city normcore, in fact I think the business casual energy I try to cultivate is a response to the local normcore.
consider what I am about to say in this way: what musician do you think is closest to your personal conception of normcore? is it tame impala? billy joel? john fahey?
the normcore creative universe is so broad right now that I think normcore has taken on a nebulous body of associations, for instance i think you could responsibly assert that the fila disruptor is a response to normcore pressures. in the same way that george clanton stands in a beige room and wears a plain brown tee shirt for his 2015 album cover, his 2018 album cover shows a chunky sneaker screaming right at you!! his upper body is clad in a club ready white jumper and baggy powder blue trousers. it's an uncanny, unpredictable result that the chunky sneaker of 18/19 and the common projects trend of 15/16 could be aesthetic cousins, and yet here we are?
has anyone here hypothesized recently on the form and meaning of normcore? I'm having difficulty making sense of it