![]() ![]() ![]() It makes me happy if I actively like everything I’m wearing, but there isn’t any statement that I’m trying to reach. In some ways, I’m always striving not to be noticed, which I think comes from being a very tall young man. One of the things I don’t like about our culture of clothing is that “Look, this is Gucci!” thing. It’s not so much that I would ever need to do that, but I love the idea that it’s possible.Īnother thing I loved on first discovering Acronym is that there is almost no exterior branding. Or, on another model, a zipper allows you to remove the jacket while wearing a seat belt. It’s all interoperative, so, for instance, you can unzip the back of the jacket and wear the bag underneath. ![]() Putting it on cheers me up: it’s like suddenly my house has been improved and I know everything will work. It’s fantastically comfortable and functional. In this photograph, everything I am wearing is by Acronym, a brand designed by my friend Errolson Hugh. I started looking at how clothes were sold to us, the narratives attached to everything, through advertising: “Wear this and be this.” That stuck with me. I developed a sort of anthropological mindset around it. I was an isolated kid, I wasn’t interested in sports, but in junior high it struck me that people communicated who they wanted you to think they were with what they were wearing. I became interested in clothing while growing up in a very small town in the southern US. ![]()
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