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Keith Haring’s BMW car10 May 2010

Keith Haring’s BMW car - Blog - TrendGiveAfuck

The Keith Haring Foundation was established in 1989 to assist AIDS-related and children’s charities, and maintains the largest resource of archives on the late artist, Keith Haring – father pieces of pop art you all will recognise.

And I love his car.

Click here to see more of his art.

Henry, 23, London7 May 2010

Henry, 23, London - Blog - TrendGiveAfuck

I was visiting this vintage market on Brick Lane the other day. Had a conversation with this guy about interesting clothes to wear, like these mad pair of boots he actually was selling but unfortunately didn’t fit me.

It took me a good amount of time before I noticed that he was wearing clothes older than myself, including a top hat! Surely, being so confident in his own style that strangers don’t even notice him dressing a bit different is pure TrendGiveAfuck!

Show your style with NIKEiD5 May 2010

Show your style with NIKEiD - Blog - TrendGiveAfuck

Shoes shoes shoes. We love’em, right? Nike knows this, and also knows that true artists love to express their unique style and so they created NIKEiD, where you can design your own shoes.

Go nuts and give your feet the stylish treatment they deserve!

What is style?4 May 2010

What is style? - Blog - TrendGiveAfuck

I’m taking classes in communication and oral presentation, and recently I did a speech on the benefits of style. Writing the speech forced me to really dig in to this topic and think about why style is important. I found several good reasons for finding your own style and putting it on display, but for now I just want to share a really nice quote by American author Gore Vidal.

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”


Sampla – The Video Game Music Quiz29 Apr 2010

Sampla – The Video Game Music Quiz - Blog - TrendGiveAfuck

I am very confident in saying that you, dear reader, has played some Nintendo games in the past. Don’t say you’re not a geek, you might get surprised at how many songs you remember from retro games :) Still, you’re not a geek, you’re a video gamer. And 8-bit music is sweet!

Click here for Sampla – The Video Game Music Quiz: http://johnfreeborn.com/games/geek_sampla/

New Look – Be the trend27 Apr 2010

New Look – Be the trend - Blog - TrendGiveAfuck

New Look posts these ads little here and there in London, telling you to be the trend by buying their simple outfits.

I found this ironic.

Why? First, you are not starting a trend by buying something that already exists, you are following one.

Second, many, many people seem to think that the words “trend” or “fashion” go together with “uniqueness”.

Fashion is a general term for the style and custom prevalent at a given time (Wikipedia), a Trend is a line of general direction of movement, a line of development, a prevailing tendency or inclination, an emerging style or preference, or the general movement over time of a statistically detectable change. In short, “trend” is a synonym of “tendency”. (Wikipedia).

That is, neither means that you have your personal style. The only way of “being a trend” is to be a “trend setter”, but in a way, even that is a paradox, for having trend followers in a way kills your own style. We at TrendGiveAfuck will have a problem with this in the future, but we will minimise this problem by continue wearing ANYTHING :)