#fourpins

In Defense of the Word “Jawnz”

 You’re in the middle of Bushwick, a Norse Projects beanie fails to cover your ears but you wear it because ~~aesthetics~~ and overpriced kombucha rests beside your MacBook Air. And yes, I see that Supreme Sticker gingerly placed on the top left corner of your laptop.

Scrolling through, you notice that once again, the Vogue reviews of PFW are a monotonous drone of fabric choice and, I don’t know, some bullshit. Highsnobiety’s “Key Pieces” for an editorial of an upcoming brand is literally every fucking piece for sale. And HypeBeast stays posting the corniest shit on Instagram like they got the same ghostwriter as Drake.

Desperate for something, anything, to renew your interest in #menswear #streetwear #swag, you open twitter and swipe down repeatedly. Twitter refreshes to a new tweet, a new link, a new review that will never come. A horrified face of realization overcomes you as the placenta in your ‘Buch swirls around in its glass bottle.

Four Pins is still dead.

Two years have gone by and it feels like Palace Skateboards barely makes up for it. A brand that has employed the same supply and demand economics that Supreme mastered, Palace feels more like the work of a vengeful econ loser - who hated your pristine white AF1 Lows - than a skateboarder. Little did that econ major know that, well, you fucked just as much as he did (nada if you ‘forgot’). 

Gripping your ‘Buch, old A$AP Yams (pause to pour one out) tweets grant you the nervous laughter that assure you, yes, everything’s fine. Those Supreme stickers are still in your nightstand. Your I’m-pretty-sure-it’s-real Bape Face Mask still hangs on your door. Your bank account most definitely reads $26.32 with pending charges. 

Four Pins still tweets, and disparate twitter accounts still avail that “Four Pins is the fucking worst.” But you and I both know it’s not the same.

Who’s going to call out the influencers for looking like trash? Who’s going to teach you how to Goth once you finesse those Rick Owens x Adidas Runners? Where is the article that demands we stop putting “everything” “in” “quotes” “as” “if” “that” “makes” “it” “art.” Lookin’ at you Virgil.

 WHO WILL GRANT YOU CLOUT THROUGH RETWEETS?????????

 I’m not a hero, and I’m sure as hell not qualified to hand out clout. I don’t even own any Raf (yikes). But I am another dude wearing clothes on the Internet, like you. And I am trying to fill the gap that Four Pins left behind; one where we call trash fashion like it is…TRASH with a hundred trash emojis. One where we justify opening up a new credit card for the sake of the almighty flex and throw up the finger to financial responsibility.

I can’t promise this blog to be the Four Pins you’ve missed. In fact I hope it blossoms into something else, something better, but something still rooted in the self-aware fact that fashion, for the most part, is a capitalistic enterprise of aesthetic stupidity…so…lets make fun of it.

Either that or we can’t afford any of it so might as well shit post and sling some memes off amirite? 

Reviews, hot takes, and bunk headlines coming soon.

- Skeezy

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If you’re one of my non-fashion friends that’s giving me the goodwill of reading this because of my Instagram post, here’s an index of references that most definitely went over your couldn’t-give-a-fuck-less head:

 Bapesta – Bape’s iconic shoe was a rip-off of the AF1 low. Instead of a swoosh, it was a shooting star

A$AP Yams – founder of A$AP, discoverer of A$AP Rocky, extremely successful at tumblr and tweeting some ridiculous shit. Worth looking up. RIP YAMS. 

Bape Face Mask – another iconic look from Bape. Ripped off by other brands a lot. Insipiration for dude that made the Yeezy Face Masks

RO x Adidas – rick owens for the past 4 years has easily created some of the most fashion forward, well-designed, all around amazing sneakers with the three stripes. However their contract ended and I cry every day because of it