No, No, Absolutely Not.

(Baby onesie with tattoo sleeve arms)

Dressing your baby in American Apparel / as euro chic as possible is one thing, but dressing them as a somewhere-in-between-the-mess-of-hipster-and-Ed-Hardy is absolutely wrong.  

We the Curators fully condemns this behavior and won’t allow any humans under the age of 20-something into the Museum donning this type of faux-apparel or actual tattoo sleeves.

(Is this unconstitutional?  Are we being discriminatory by not allowing someone into our beloved Museum just because of what they choose to wear?  Or are we actually doing everyone in the whole wide world a favor by not putting up with this shit?)

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If you gonna be a killa, be a Louis Vuitton killa.

The Museum is proud to feature so many wonderful items glamorized even further by Louis Vuitton and co.

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Never stop the rock.

(You included, Slayer)

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Because when your purse, your doggy leash, your sunglasses, your old car and your livestock aren’t enough, the next thing in line to be designer brand is clearly your gun.

(brb, taking our lives via shooting ourselves with Louis Vuitton weapons)

Coming soon: the Fendi noose.

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This is an American Apparel model.  No, really.

This is what they are modeling on their website to try to sell you clothes.

Is it working?  Are you trying to cop this kids’ style?  Don’t you just wanna look like him?  Well do ya?

Fashion is evolving, fashion is modern, fashion is scannable on your iPhone/smartphone.

So Po-PoMo fo sho.

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Welcome to Artifact #1 of the new Exploring “Chic” permanent exhibit at the Museum. Today we begin with Chic #1 on Wikipedia’s official list of 47 chics… Art-school Chic.

According to Wikipedia:

See Hippie chic

Well that’s a very descriptive way to categorize the first chic on the list.  Plus Hippie chic is still 23 more chics to go!

Hmm… how about we try a Google search?  I mean, Wikipedia lists it as its first “chic”, so there must be a wealth of scholarly information on the topic.

Oh, it’s all Art Schools in Chicago.  Great.

Well after some deeper investigation, we come to a blog post from a “make-decent-hip-fashion-choices and-dont-pay-too-much-or-do-but-dont-necessarily” website called Refinery 29, who gives us the following story:

“How to Rock the Art-School Chic Look”

(ah, finally, someone’s been paying attention to Chic #1 on Wikipedia’s list)

First of all, we think rising starlet, Emily Browning, might be one of the prettiest peeps we’ve ever street-style snapped. Although her gorgeousness was initially distracting, we couldn’t help but notice her that her outfit is, in a word, perfect. You’d never think to pair all those pieces together, but her daring move sure paid off—the unexpected combinations got her some photo-love at the Phillip Lim show during New York Fashion Week, where shutterbugs (us included) couldn’t stop swooning. To pull together this art-school chic look, we’ve rounded up five pieces that may have people asking to take your picture.

Last but not least, let’s give you some Google Image results (omitting the word Chicago) to see what this chic look really looks like.

Oh, so the kids that made us feel kind of uncomfortable/intrigued/worried in high school… perfect.  How about another result:

Oh.  So is art-school chic just what is chic to draw in art school?  Is this nude really “art-school chic” just because she was drawn at an art school?  Would a postmodern distorted portrait of Hitler thus be considered an “art-school chic” look to rock on the streets?

Let’s try one last one:

Well we here at the Museum officially don’t seem to understand what exactly constitutes “art-school chic”, but it sounds awful.

Join us here next when we present Chic #2: Ashcan Chic.  (Don’t worry, you’ll hate it)

IF you were to view culture and society on a whole, you would easily find that fashion trends come and go over time.  While some trends have lasted for longer than others and some have made greater impacts than others, they have all played roles into the way people have looked, dressed, and identified throughout modern time.

But some fashion trends are more special than others… for some have entered the canon of twenty/twenty-first century culture as “chics”.  Originally a French word that was first codified into the English language at the end of the 1800’s, the term grew with much greater popularity in the 20th century to describe what was stylish and smart.  

Sometimes used flatteringly, sometimes used pretentiously, sometimes used ironically, the word “chic” has grown to be often accompanied by an adjective; the qualifier always precedes the word “chic” to give it some further specific context to what genre the “chic” may apply.

But in case you are one of those scholars in School of Thought 2k11 that thinks that anything can be a “chic” because anything can be anything in 2011, we here at the Museum would like to kindly inform you that you are incorrect.
For the Great Arbiter of Knowledge, the All-Powerful Source of What is Right, aka Wikipedia, deems that there are specifically 47 chics that exists in life.

So in order to both give our Museum-goers an educational experience and present some wonderfully amusing fashion trends, the Museum will look to catalogue each and every one of the Wikipedia-acclaimed “chics” in existence.  We will continually add to this Permanent Collection over the next few weeks, so be sure to visit often.

When the cataloguing is complete, we will have the thrilling opportunity to open up a new tumblr page we mean wing of the Museum devoted solely to this great collection of work.

We hope you will enjoy all the chic-ness that is about to come your way.  Keep up with the Collection anytime at ArtofMod.com/tagged/Chic.

Urban Outfitters, a clothing store that once upon a time was a staple for crusty grungy youthful Caucasian urbanfolk but now merely uses these archetypes to advertise to hipsters about to graduate from high school, would like you to know that the above is a “trend”.

Happy 2011, once again.

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The Lord Almighty Gaga has a new fashion competitor and she’s clearly ready to take it to the next level.

We can’t really tell you who this is or why she’s dressed like this, but we’re gonna go ahead and acknowledge this as part of a growing trend of Fashion that connects to our innermost notions of art and beauty and grace and fear of warm colors.

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