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The #BullshitFiles: This rich New York designer couple have never been to Africa, but can smell it
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The stuff rich white people say sometimes. The New York Times’ Style section is more often than not full of arse-kissing puff pieces that do little besides illustrating the genealogies of privilege stretching between New York, Hollywood, Paris, London, and Caribbean island tax havens. Lots of these people also claim to love everything “Africa” (read: going […]

#FASHION #JOURNALISM #Ernest_Hemingway #Matthew_Mellon #Nicole_Hanley_Mellon #Peter_Beard

#Louis_Vuitton’s ‘Out of Africa’ fantasy
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Using locations in Africa as backdrops to sell clothes and bags is nothing new – especially bags and clothes that certain class of travellers and outdoorsy people like to call “gear”. As in “stuff necessary to show you’re ready for hardship.” Sometimes, though, the mythology referenced, re-ignited, and re-iterated in newly romaticised packaging is so…well, moronic that we have to do yet another post on the same old-same-old. And Louis Vuitton’s new campaign gets AIAC’s #Out_of_Africa #FASHION Campaign award for this quarter’s mash up of #Discovery_Channel fodder, Hemingway’s “Snows of Kilimanjaro”, Lawrence of Arabia, Out of Africa, and the opening scenes from The English (...)

#ADVERTISING #Catherine_Roitfeld #English_Patient #Ernest_Hemingway #Karen_Elson