NY's RETAIL MAFIA

[Misteraven]

http://www.somamagazine.com/soma.html

couldn't copy/paste, but there's a good article of you follow the link.

[Pearlpaint]

Not for nothing, but retail mafia??? What a fuckin joke! Fashion fags posing as wanna be gangsters who are just bar thugs make me laugh!

[The Hipster]

http://www.splay.com/mafia/nothingnice.gif
http://www.beinghunted.com/v40/reviews/2004/january/retailmafia/_images/pic_01.gif

retailmafia (http://www.retailmafia.com/)

[Manifesto]

i was about to ask why you posted a pic of a-ron...

interesting atricle.

the way japanese run business is totally diff, just as the article says.
there are a collective company under one huge brother company..kind of like a distributor.
so if one brand seems to be lackin in funds, sales etc...the other brands come in to support
that lacking brand.
so that no one brand would really fall off. and everyone shares the benefits.
sounds a little like communism...haha

[The Hipster]

some links:
ssurempirestate (http://www.ssurempirestate.com/)alife (http://www.alifenyc.com/)
supreme (http://www.supremenewyork.com/)
marriedtothemob (http://www.marriedtothemobnyc.com)
davesqualitymeat (http://www.davesqualitymeat.com/)


add more...

[My Pal the Crook]

xxx

[Nekro]

Hipsterrific.

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about lifestyle marketing and branding right now. On one hand, you've got to market your shit somehow, but on the other hand all the marketing can destroy the lifestyle itself.

Clearly these brands market themselves as clothing for creative urban hipsters, but isn't part of being creative not having to buy things to be cool? Is this whole culture based around anything other than consumerism? It seems to me that someone who was actually cool and original would screen their own damned T shirts instead of paying $70 for something that says "supreme" on it.

As far as I know, graffiti and hip hop music are about writing your name on a wall and rapping, not who has the rarest, most expensive shoes or jeans or whatever.

[Sarah Tonin]

taken from davesqualitymeat link

http://www.davesqualitymeat.com/drunkphotos/04_12_07/images/CIMG1747.jpg

[GamblersGrin]

Originally posted by The Hipster@Jan 19 2005, 12:20 PM
some links:
ssurempirestate (http://www.ssurempirestate.com/)alife (http://www.alifenyc.com/)
supreme (http://www.supremenewyork.com/)
marriedtothemob (http://www.marriedtothemobnyc.com)
davesqualitymeat (http://www.davesqualitymeat.com/)


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not too many people are up on ssur. i have a shirt of theirs from 97 or 98. it may even be 96 i think. its got some mafia dudes on it above a map of brooklyn and pints out where they ran. i always think of puttin that thing up on ebay to see what it can do.

[The Hipster]

http://www.splay.com/mafia/girlongirl.gif

[X THIZZ OR DIE X]

Originally posted by Sarah Tonin@Jan 20 2005, 02:11 AM
taken from davesqualitymeat link

http://www.davesqualitymeat.com/drunkphotos/04_12_07/images/CIMG1747.jpg
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