Just a small wondering
Will we (or rather, will our avatars) wear words when fully-immersive, massively multiplayer, 3d computer environments really start to take off?
Will it look like Matrix green code view? Will future fashionistas argue endlessly about the merits of serif vs. sans-serif? "Bembo “:http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A//www.monotypefonts.com/Library/HiddenGems.asp%3Fshow%3Dbembo&ei=Bis0RO2tF8m8YKu6ueED&sig2=bzVpfETmx4oYfJFz_9vRfQ vs. Helvetica? Bodoni vs. Garamond? Will a future girl flaunting her sexuality wear a top bikini made of nothing but two rings out of the word ”http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=BodyPerks">"perky" barely concealing her nipples1? Will you wrap yourself in lyrics? In short stories? In emo text? Will I wear Borges‘s while you wear Charlie Stross’s? While she wears Melville’s? Will you wear your favorite quotes as bracelets? As necklaces? As belts? Will HarperCollins be the new Gap?
Before you nonchalantly dismiss this idle rumination as the work of a feverishly formist mind, I ask you to pause for a moment and look around at today’s ubiquituous (and perpetually crammed) IM nick-names and personal messages, email and forum signatures, “witty” t-shirts, and the like.
1. Real-sized but not real-spaced between them due to design considerations. Do you see what I see?
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I don’t understand. Fashion is so rich and varied, why in the world would anyone wear Matrix style outfits? Acid green is SO not in season…...and words? They always seem to pop up in one collection or another every season, but lets not forget the dire misuse of them as in that horrible slogan t-shirt craze of 2004. I rather wonder, will we be able to get Marc Jacobs and Dior? Cheap knock-offs from H&M? A fake designer bag at a virtual Canal Street? And regarding that seemingly ubiquitous trend of self-expression through text, keep in mind the second cardinal rule of fashion:
The best statements are subtlety made.
And yes, this is me having taken my daily dose of mamรณn pills…...saludos!
Today a friend asked me to help him craft his status message (“status message”, wow, we didn’t have that word back when I wrote this post) because he liked my sense of language and it felt exactly as a friend asking another to help her buy clothes because she liked her fashion sense (not that I have any experience on that).