Fashion Statements

For centuries people were making fashion statements with the things they were wearing, with the hairdos they were sporting but in this millenium things have changed a bit. Where you would make a statement with a great T-Shirt you were wearing and positioning yourself within a group with your haircut before, nowadays you have to add one more thing to be fashionable. Your house. With the cocooning trend after 9/11 people tend to stay home more and therefore are redecorating more often. The number of style blogs is incredible and I must say that I read some of them on a daily bases.

So houses and apartments are a fashion statement now. What I am talking about is the fact that nowadays even the kitchens have to be cool. You just can´t wash your hands in the sink anymore, you have to have a bowl. Or not even a bowl, just a shiny flat surface where water pours onto and into infinity. Your kitchen is now so cool that it has bouncers so you can´t get in it. Your dishwasher can get in but you can´t. Your fridge can be dancing the night away at Studio 54 without you.

Living in Geneva has one huge disadvantage. If you rent, like most of us do, the kitchen is already in the apartment and you have not much of a choice. These kitchens are ugly, old and so not cool. My kitchen is lucky if it can get into Shakers.

How can I become a fashionista, what´s the male term anyway, fashionister, if my kitchen is so shitty?

Pastels Are Back - The End Is Near

Flipping through the latest issue of GQ I realized that my biggest nightmare in terms of colours is back, Pastels. I hate them from the bottom of my heart. For me, pastels are such an uninspired coulour, if you have no clue what colour you like or you are afraid to make a statement, just wear pastels.

Wearing colours was never my cup of tea, I tried it several times and it failed horribly every single time. I guess my skin looks even more pale when I wear colours and on top I have no clue what colour goes with what skin tone. I guess I would have been a great costume designer in the era of silent movies but nowadays I would screw it up big time.

Anyway, pastels are back. From Alexander McQueen to Ermenegildo Zegna all major designers feature pastels exessively in their mens spring/summer 2008 collections and I´m seriously worried what will be next. After pastels there is only one way, down hill.

Pastels are for french pastries, men in their midlife crisis, rich bitches whose faces have been pulled so tight that they can´t see what they´re buying, dog clothing, cough drops and boring wedding china.

I will ignore this trend, like most of the other trends, and will stick with a fresh mouse grey, Hollywood bleached teeth white and the usual jet black this season.

Picture: GQ