https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:09:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line/page/2#post-1225582 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:38:25 +0000 Von 1225582@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Any man who wears those pants is affected. By what, I'm not sure...most likely affluence and distance from reality. </p> <p>At the bottom of the article reads: <i>A version of this article appears in print on April 13, 2014, on page ST9 of the New York edition with the headline: <b>The Mellon Lifestyle as a Brand.</b></i></p> <p>Is filthy rich a brand these days?&nbsp; If so, I can bypass that trend.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line/page/2#post-1225575 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:30:39 +0000 texstyle 1225575@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Una - cracking me UP...</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line/page/2#post-1222915 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:53:21 +0000 Janet 1222915@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm sorry, I wanted to read the whole article, but I think I sprained my eyes rolling them so hard at the very first paragraph. </p> <p>They have all that money. Just go to Africa already. Maybe it will give them a badly-needed dose of perspective. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line/page/2#post-1222911 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:48:51 +0000 leopardluxe 1222911@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ummmmm, speaking as someone who has actually spent a month on safari in Africa as well as read a lot of Hemingway...</p> <p>Yeah... just&nbsp;reading Hemingway.&nbsp;</p> <p>Not the same.</p> <p>Apparently they are so inspired by the faux, imaginary travels they don't see the need for real ones? (and I still find myself hoping this article is some kind of late-to-the-game April fools joke).</p> <p>Eh. To each his own I suppose, but from my perspective --Pinterest is not &nbsp;a good or suitable&nbsp;replacement for real &nbsp;and varied&nbsp;experiences.&nbsp;</p> <p>Ahhh, the rich truly are very different creatures than I. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line/page/2#post-1222876 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:51:35 +0000 Laurinda 1222876@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The Danger Of A Single Story<br />To counteract that saccharine taste, I recommend&nbsp;Novelist Chimamanda Adichie. I heard her on NPR yesterday afternoon and just found&nbsp;her TED talk.&nbsp;</p> <p><i>Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.<br />&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story">http://www.ted.com/talks/chima.....ngle_story</a></i></p> <p>ETA: Jezebel's coverage:<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://jezebel.com/breaking-annoying-rich-people-feel-deep-affinity-fo-1562774203">Breaking: Annoying ​Rich People Feel "Deep Affinity" for Africa</a></p> <p></p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line/page/2#post-1222867 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:37:43 +0000 Anonymous 1222867@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ugh, so very ridiculously&nbsp;clueless.</p> <p>The college I went to was literally named after this guy's ancestors, which almost makes me want to try cutting them a little slack, but nope, I don't think that's happening. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line/page/2#post-1222859 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:26:01 +0000 Lantana 1222859@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, crikey! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line/page/2#post-1222774 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 06:47:17 +0000 Deborah 1222774@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Im not sure what to think.&nbsp; Sadly there are people who live life very removed from the general reality but I can't help but thinking this is some sort of joke?? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line/page/2#post-1222773 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 06:35:16 +0000 fern 1222773@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It must be satire. It has to be satire.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line/page/2#post-1222617 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:30:08 +0000 Echo 1222617@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well, at the beginning of the article, he said, "<span>My breath was literally taken away. I knew instantly. I was rocketed to the fourth dimension. It was a metaphysical overtaking." So clearly they both are full of themselves.</p> <p>And Minnie makes an excellent point. Which part of Africa? Africa is an enormous CONTINENT, not a rural, backwater country that people like this tend to imply. Are they the sort who never picture Africa as having cities, and it's all just one big Disney zoo?</p> <p>The entire article made me throw up in my mouth a little. They aren't doing themselves any favours if they want to encourage people to buy their products, unless the other 1% think the same way (though in all fairness, some of the 1% have actually been around the world and have foundations to aid the areas that impacted them most deeply).</span> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222600 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:58:22 +0000 karymk 1222600@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well I don't like what she's wearing at all (vintage jewelled collar with oddly chosen organicky silver boho necklace) And he seems foppish, so I'm gonna wait for the goods to decide on if they are good enough for my wardrobe, or to influence it.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;If I had their pedigree I would surely be designing. &nbsp;But I still would be aiming for the street factor. &nbsp;Which would include affordability.</p> <p>ARe they just a tad affected? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222593 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:43:59 +0000 Jules 1222593@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>oh my, some of these articles really do feel like satire!<br /> Agreed it's kind of odd that she seems to have an unrealized ambition to go to Africa. Just go smell the smells already. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222584 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:30:21 +0000 unfrumped 1222584@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It's all on a continuum, isn't it? I mean I just bought a pair of shoes I don't " need"-- am I helping the economy, or should I return them and increase my charitable contributions? Squeeing over Burberry trenches vs. buying someone's works of art and building universities and hospitals? So it makes<br /> me look to myself rather than to feel I have a special bead on analyzing their motives and worth. ( Though those WERE the darnedest daft quotes!) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222576 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:18:18 +0000 MsMary 1222576@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sharon, I know, right?&nbsp; I kept looking for the April Fool disclaimer! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222573 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:13:32 +0000 Sharon 1222573@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>OMG! Who needs to go to India when you have Pinterest? It must be a satire, right? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222566 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:00:47 +0000 Marley 1222566@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh wow - you guys are all being much more nice than I was when I first read the article.&nbsp; I don't even want to waste my time commenting on this piffle.</p> <p>I 've just got to say though - that her comment about the deep affinity with Africa, regardless of having never been there - reminded me a bit of Sarah Palin when she was asked about her foreign policy experience and she said, "I can see Russia from my house."&nbsp; (Or, was that Tina Fey that said that?&nbsp; Oh well - you get my point?) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222554 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 22:27:45 +0000 ironkurtin 1222554@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The rich are different.&nbsp; I also recall an article the NYT style section ran a fair bit back about a very wealthy woman's custom closet, which she rather oblivously describes, in painful detail, without being aware how over the top it is.&nbsp; I do wonder what else these two do with their money besides run their site (if they do in fact run it, rather than ocassionally popping in to chat with the help).&nbsp; I always thought if I came into a great deal of money I'd spend it to help people, but who knows, maybe I'll make jet-set cashmere sneakers instead. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222542 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:41:24 +0000 Minnie 1222542@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Which part of Africa does she feel a deep affinity with? <br />Before moving to Colorado, I lived in Sierra Leone which ,at that time, was one of the poorest countries in the world. Extreme widespread&nbsp;poverty certainly touches the soul, but not in the sickly romaticized way she seems to envision. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222527 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:23:21 +0000 Style Fan 1222527@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have nothing to say.&nbsp; I agree that it could have been an article in The Onion.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222489 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 20:27:12 +0000 Diana 1222489@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>LOL, glad to hear that Gilded Age colonialism is alive and well in the 21st century. &nbsp;Honestly I can't even get indignant about this because it just seems so ridiculously out of touch to me. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222458 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 19:37:01 +0000 rae 1222458@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aw, no comments section on that article?? o_0&nbsp;I wonder if she feels a deep affinity toward Compton, too.&nbsp;</p> <p>It's funny... if they at least owned the fact that the line was inspired by an "imagining" or by "Hemmingway's vision of" a place, I'd be mostly okay with it. I've never been to the post-apocalyptic wasteland, but I still like HL and RO.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222447 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 19:18:31 +0000 JAileen 1222447@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It reminds me of Ann Richards, speaking of another privileged person, "He was born on third base and thought he had hit a home run." </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222443 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 19:14:51 +0000 harmonica 1222443@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Go MaryK! There might be worse evil, but ignorance and cultural colonialism do affect peoples everyday life </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222441 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 19:12:54 +0000 viva 1222441@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This little profile in the NYTimes did make my gut seize up a bit, I have to admit, but that happens from time to time with the paper, much as I love it. It usually happens in the style section, perhaps not surprisingly. When $3,000 Levis are highlighted and the high social scene is glorified and this little couple with their new line .... okay, so I am truly glad they are not actively doing evil, but it's also very hard to get myself all pumped up to root for the 1%. Sorry to be so cynical. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222432 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 18:58:59 +0000 catgirl 1222432@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>And maybe it's better that such statements aren't self-censored so we can see how far we still have to go. Or maybe it will always be this way for the people who can afford to shelter themselves from reality. Or maybe this is their reality. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222430 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 18:55:01 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 1222430@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yeah, romanticizing the (non-white) other is a) gross and b) soooo last millennium...</p> <p>ETA Alaskagirl: I totally get your indignation. Maybe it's my living in Silicon Valley for the last decade plus and spending just the tiniest bit of time with very wealthy people - most of them, even ones who are self made, are astonishingly oblivious to what regular folks deal with everyday. I honestly think it's a survival mechanism so they don't feel guilty all the time. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222429 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 18:54:40 +0000 catgirl 1222429@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura, you're right, and thank you for reminding me that there is worse evil out there. It just rubbed me wrong this morning. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222428 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 18:53:13 +0000 catgirl 1222428@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>*snort*</p> <p>"The locals do have impeccable taste in pattern mixing, and a steady regime of dietary restriction is SO good for the bone structure, what what."</p> <p>Sorry, I'm feeling acerbic this morning. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222426 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 18:50:45 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 1222426@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My compassionate side hopes that these people are at least genuine and not putting on some kind of game for the paper. At least they are not doing active evil in the world; there's nothing wrong with expressing your artistic side in a clothing line, even if you are ignorant of how most of the world lives and sound ridiculous while you do it.</p> <p>My more cynical side: There are all those studies about cognitive dissonance - pretty much everyone gets used to where they are and what is around them, because knowing that you're doing something that doesn't fit is literally painful. We all rationalize things everyday; it's just that these folks have a bigger gap than the rest of us.</p> <p>ETA: re MaryK, I agree: at least with noblesse oblige there was some oblige! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-thoughts-on-this-couple-and-their-clothing-line#post-1222424 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 18:49:15 +0000 MsMary 1222424@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I know, right?&nbsp; I mean, Dude!&nbsp; Whatever happened to noblesse oblige and trying not to SEEM like a completely entitled douchebag, even if you secretly are one? </p> <p>ETA: The last line of the article is "Now we just need a hashtag."&nbsp; Uh, I could think of a few...</p>