WARDROBE IS OVER

& A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

“..and a happy new year, lets hope it’s a good one, without any tier” John Lennon & Yoko Ono & friends. Wardrobe is over, if you want it.

Good luck with that one out there, but lets remain open to changing with our world.  For me fashion is suspended while music keeps on working. Without Any Tiers 2020 list I recently shared with a close pal. Basically’ I made you a mix tape’ thirty years later, between two old guys. Shout out to man like Denis if ya out there brother, many loves. Check it, if you’re at loose end. Linky in bio where I’ve implanted it in TheRowStance.com, for a spell. Selection starts off fun, optimistic, sad then but it get deeper pretty quick, even with two current tracks, for Christ’s sake… while poor fashion’s run out of time. For now. All the guys below are in the playlist, bless ‘em. x

I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW

JOHNNY NASH WORE GUCCI APPLIQUE

 The time and place elements of style & fashion makes it super important for me. One doesn’t just do a look, or wear a thing, you drop it in a specific time, and place which stamps a specific, unique context on it. Like say a New Years Eves party in 2020. Circum-stance, if you will. Now we don’t know the future at all, or where we are actually are heading, I can see far fewer ways to actually feel for fashion in relevant contexts. There are exceptions, but for now fashion’s had its life lines ripped out. No context status cuts of its energy supply.

NO REGRETS, COYOTE

YOU JUST PICKED UP A HITCHER

I cant get no fashion bearings, as Mick Jagger once mentioned. With much of our existence on hold who needs to get new fashion stuff when we don’t know what is gonna happen?  Looking for gratification in fashion trends or status would be a charade of a previously already dubious debacle. Until further notice, its off. Wardrobe Is Over. So ‘till then, it’s a time for revisiting all our old gear, both our old garms and the actual rest of our lives, working out what we already have is good. Largely. Cant finish this thing tonight but its gonna be an on going theme for 2021.

MAS QUE NADDA

SAI DA MINHA FRENTE

Music still works, where fashion doesn’t right now. Listening inspiring music is not diminished by the crisis effect, though live music has been decimated. Which is double sad. More keen to see live music back on its feet than live fashion. In fact, if we did, we would: See some fresh, living style in action as people work out what they wanna dress and how they wanna really feel in newly evaluated world. They’ll probably fuck it up, again, but still, ‘til then style&fashion is on hold and music keeps us going.

MAKE ME WANT TO HOLLER

AND THROW UP BOTH MY HANDS

Double happy new year you lot.

Stubbs out

PS. This is John & Yoko doing Happy Xmas (War Is Over) with the Harlem community choir live, out of respect and that.