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Take the shot so others can play shirt

Well, that art on souvenir print shirts formed the Take the shot so others can play shirt moreover I love this main plank of what’s certain to be a hit collection. The riffing colors of the Dean print—on a djellaba-like shirt, a purple tree, sky blue; and on a long cagoule, a desert orange, weird outcrops, and purple haze inspired a series of other jungly prints and fantasy embroideries. One jacket had a huge red dragon wrapped around it. The dragon was embroidered onto the back of a hoodie. The great thing about Piccioli’s collection is that you didn’t feel him reaching for “inspiration,” projecting himself onto another generation, or noodling on about the good old days of alternative rock as middle-aged men are wont, given half a chance. The fact is that he’s a down-to-earth modern guy who simply enjoys life and uses his talent to give men of whatever age access to an easy Italian lifestyle aesthetic. There was nothing in the collection one couldn’t imagine him wearing himself, either at Valentino HQ in Rome (the techno-cotton pieces in tobacco, khaki, blue) or in his family life-affirming summer Instagram posts, where he’ll be seen relaxing at the seaside in necklaces and caftans and making them look cool. Escapism in fashion can sometimes lead to dubious and dark places. Not so, with Piccioli, whose positivism is inclusive the diverse casting he’s brought to his women’s shows carried through to men and comes from lived experience. So, yes: shine on, Piccioli. Over the telephone from Los Angeles Ben Taverniti and his wife, Joyce, have a 3-month-old baby to tend to, so fair enough the Unravel designer said that his twin-pole identity as a Paris-raised, California-residing designer is what most shapes his work. For this collection, he was contemplating the common thread of brutalist architecture in both cities. “So I wanted to strip down the collection, to be austere and rough. you know, we are in an environment in fashion today where we are surrounded by so much information, so much social media overload of visual information and in clothing so much is going on on the surface it is like you are almost hiding other issues you might have,” he said. We can see how this operates in the concept Keynes described in what he called the “Paradox of Thrift”. In this macroeconomic concept, Keynes realized that any attempt to increase wealth, cannot occur if spending did not occur. He realized that “not spending” would not change the level of wealth, and would not increase savings. If one reduces investment spending, one would also reduce the savings that is the preservation of investment, by the same amount. Also neither “spending” or “not spending” are responsible for any change in the level of wealth, and therefore “not spending” cannot cause an increase in the net production of wealth.





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