Most Influential Pieces. - Topic of the day 11/12/24
When you look back, are there any pieces that you felt like stood out among all the rest? That didn't just became a grail for you, but for many others? Pieces that influenced how fashion moved forward from then on even if just for a subsection? If so, what pieces come to mind?

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First pants were huge for fashion tbh

jordan 1s
This was what got me into Ralph Lauren.

2015: this had jacket fans in a chokehold

Not for me, but I feel like this was the first archive thing I kept hearing about

oooo yes
good ass pick
Similarly

Supreme BOGO kind of undeniable
Total blast from the past but the raf fishtail parka and the undercover bomber come to mind.


I would do unkind things for one of those undercover ghost hands bombers
Speaking of bombers, a LOT of people (me included) found out about Buzz Rickson, and Japanese repro stuff in general, because of the William Gibson MA1
absolutely. I had the alpine one that came out after that. it was 670 retail and such an incredible jacket for the price
Another awesome one for sure. The Alpine was my first 'proper' jacket and I was so hyped when I got it


Hard to overstate how many people this outfit had an impact on for better or worse

Circa 2013 iirc



Same vein

Honestly I would put money on this being the most influential single piece

Yohji Pin-ups prob fall into this category as well
is this raf
Robert geller
oops
im pretty sure that was apart of the fit that pulled me into mfa
gave me a gradient obsession forever


is this cheating?
Dapper Dan right? undeniably massive


This caused so many damaging echos in the long run 😄
Diana black sheep sweater imo speaks for itself.
YSL le smoking (on Bianca jagger in this instance) was MASSIVE and its a look that came back with gucci under tom ford and then again under michele in the 2010s


Nike walked so Thursday boots could run

when drake wore this one sheesh. it might have been one of the best era's of stone island

and of course my holy grail

omg forgot about that one. the hold it had
In a much broader sense:

Pretty much everything about this outfit had and has a stranglehold on multiple generations
There’s like fifty landscape altering things that Yves Saint Laurent did but this is one of the faves

Drake really couldn't help himself culturally appropriating Grime smh
Struggling to think of a more iconic non-catwalk photo
YSL at Dior's funeral
Also YSL to adapts point

never seen that photo before, but that speaks to my own lack of experience 😔
Tbf this is a candid instead of the posed photo adapt posted too
I mean my point was more about the number of things that Yves helped popularize/invent- I’d say Le Smoking is probably the single most influential garment he’s ever made even if you take Andre Courreges’s side in the ‘who showed a women’s tuxedo first’ argument- I wasn’t really thinking about the photo itself
But yeah shocker the guy with this in his Wikipedia article did a bunch of different stuff that changed fashion fundamentally

have this on my wall 🙂