the fact that he says he “can’t” wear the same thing twice. YES YOU CAN. plenty of people in the real world do it and if you’re supposed to be an “influencer” then you should have enough creativity to style the same thing differently, hell, people in the real world with no fashion expertise do that already too.
I genuinely can't imagine finding something I look good in and Not wearing it all the time. Like people are saying "style it differently" which is indeed something you can totally do if you're genuinely worried about wearing the same thing, but also if I like the way I look in something I dont want to have that experience for just one day, I'll wear the exact same outfit til I'm sick of it. it just seems like a lot of emotional energy to wear new clothes every day
@@sarahgent2674 exactly! I’ve worn the exact same outfit multiple times (and was even photographed in it 😱) because it’s cute and comfy and makes me feel great. The only thing these influencers are influencing is the fast fashion industry and climate change.
Me, an autistic person, wearing the exact same shirt every single day until it literally disintegrates because it is my comfort shirt and everything else feels wrong 🙃
Hi, fashion student here. These influencers who claim to be collectors PISS ME OFF omggggg. I am a HUGE advocate for influencers promoting wearing outfits multiple times, even when it's your job to look fabulous on Instagram. So James can f off with this "new closet every month" bullshit. If you wanna be a *~fashion girl~* that's fine, but if you're buying collector's items/rare pieces, you should be wearing them more than once... and even if they aren't rare, you look more dynamic for restyling the same garment! I think Jackie Aina is an excellent example of this. She'll wear her rare pieces more than once and restyle her stuff. And she's talked about cycling out her older pieces by selling them on luxury resale sites, which I think is a great idea. James' nonchalant attitude just grinds my gears!!
After my transition, I really had to work on making my wardrobe more androgynous, and more me. But I kept a lot of my old clothes because I can restyle them or even use their fabric to make something new. Finding new ways to reuse your old clothes are part of the fun of fashion!
I’m not a fashion student but I am a huge fashion consumer and wearer and I agree. Wearing stuff multiple times and being able to arrange them in different ways shows a better sense of fashion and gives the rare pieces that OOMF.
He should fire his stylist if they can't make new look combos with that entire ass closet. Or.... Yknow, just fire them in general because all they buy if different color sweatpants.
It's so iffy to me that the influencers with the youngest demographic are also the ones who think it's cute to replace your whole overpriced over stuffed wardrobe every month because you don't like wearing the same thing twice. Kids then think it's something to aspire to and not insanely out of touch, wasteful and honestly, just dumb.
When I was in middle school in the 2000s (I’m assuming that’s JC demographic) I remember for the entre first month of school it was definitely noticed if you repeated an outfit and we didn’t exactly have the same social media pressure to constantly have new clothes. I imagine there is even more pressure for kids now. And now, as an adult if I find something I like I buy 2 or 3 of them and walk around looking like a cartoon character 😂 comfort and dressing for my body shape on a budget is the goal.
No bcus they really do, I know kids in my younger siblings school that literally flex on each other and try to create status with designer clothing, and I'm talking ugly shit, not even stuff they probably like but just seen a rich influencer wear. Like these kids be talking Gucci this Louis that like it's a personality trait 💀
I remember watching a closet tour with Kris Jenner and she managed to pull off being humble about how fortunate she was. It can't be that hard to fake if she can do it.
Fun fact: I worked with Tom Hanks on a set a few months ago and one of the other PAs had a “hey sisters” hoodie that Tom asked her about. Trying to hear her explain James Charles to Tom Hanks was one of the funniest fucking things I’ve ever seen and very satisfying that he had no idea who James was
UGHH him talking so proudly about renewing his closet every month makes me *so* mad. Like as central american resident we get all the trash people like him in the US throw apparently every month. People it's okay to own clothes longer than a couple of month
This and in South Asian countries too. I love fashion but I can't bring myself to keep supporting fast fashion anymore. It's gross that he's just so proud of it.
Basically any 2nd and 3rd world countries get all the trash from imperialist 1st world countries. It's just another part of the cycle of capitalist exploitation and oppression 🙃
This closet is worth more than most peoples houses, those sunglasses are more than my rent… yet there’s not one thing in that closet I find interesting. All that money with no style or fashion sense has him looking like every high school midwestern volleyball player on game day. Meanwhile he lives like an hour from Skid Row, when the cost of this closet could feed and house hundreds of people living in horrific conditions there. At the very least he could pull a Simplynailogical and pay for his fans college tuitions, or even the therapy for those boys that he manipulated and coerced. But instead…. tracksuits and horse shoes.
@bmrn bmrn ohhhhh I must’ve been confused, I thought at one point he said there was one worth 30,000… my bad! still an egregious amount of money for a purse.
The “horse hoof” shoes he was showing off and proclaiming to “not get” actually have historical significance. They are Tabi shoes, based around Japanese wooden clogs with a split toe. It deeply annoys me that he just blindly consumes fashion based on numbers and popularity and doesn’t even bother to find out why the choice he doesn’t understand was made.
Thank you for commenting this. They have way more significance than he’d ever care to learn about. Horses don’t even have “split toes” and whoever first compared those shoes to horse hooves is even more ignorant than James is.
Dunking on James Charles is truly the Lords work at this point. And for that, we thank you, Nick. This short film, in a few words, is brave, poignant and important for our time.
I don't understand how someone can claim to know fashion but their entire wardrobe is literally picked out by another person and based on trends ...like ????
Not to mention the "horse hooves"... Tabis are a japanese design and it annoys me so much seeing americans making fun of it now that it's trending, and even worse he owns/probably has worn them while thinking they're ugly in his mind. That's next level appropriation
I had to watch this video twice to realize that the sunglasses were not $8.75, but $875.00. I was over here wondering if I was out of touch for spending ten dollars on sunglasses thinking it was reasonable 😅
I find sunglasses easily get lost or broken so I don't like to spend more than £5 on mine. I think the ten dollars is too much. Let's not even touch on eight hundred.
Imagine getting rid of stuff just because you've worn it once or twice 🥴 whenever I find an outfit that makes me feel cute I have to resist the urge to not just wear it every single day for the rest of my life 😂
I love clothes but it's super gross to have that kind of throw-away attitude, even if you ARE rich. "I cAn OnLy WeAr It OnCe Bc I wAs In A pIcTuRe." 🙄🙄🙄
And I find it crazy that you can love a piece so much to purchase it for crazy money, and only wear it once. Clearly didn’t like it that much then? Did it for the gram at its finest.
I wanna know the psychology of having a rotating closet as a rich influencer. One it's wasteful, two youre keeping up with fast fashion (and to an extent encouraging it), you have to be giving up some ounce of your personal fashion to do this. Like if you do this for years, does your personal style go away eventually? I can't imagine having a rotating closet just to keep up with trends personally, maybe it's cause I grew up poor lol 🤷♀
Yeah and it’s kinda hilarious how he said something like “there’s a story behind everything here” at one point, just after Nick showed the clip of him talking about how his stylists buy him a whole new wardrobe every 3 months. Like what’s the point in doing a closet tour if you didn’t pick anything out yourself? I’ve watched rich ass ppl do closet tours before and they’ll usually pick out pieces and go into great detail about how they got such and such piece from blah designer and had it tailored to suit them after seeing something similar on a runway, yadda yadda. I agree with Nick, it looks like James wants to be a fashion girl now, but he’s just half arsing it like everything else.
I have a psych background, and my immediate knee-jerk thought regarding this type of behavior (to put it simply, though there are more aspects I could delve into) is that it's a form of avoiding the "aging process": It would be much easier to avoid acknowledging time affecting your appearance if your clothes show no signs of wear - imagine shoes with pristine soles, I've known some well off people and/or individuals with massive shoe collections but *never* saw a closet where every pair was pristine. In short, this is an attempt to freeze time.
@@maybemablemaples2144 Human Sexuality is one of my subspecialties - as is the case with all fields, one not only studies the common developments and cases, but abnormal and aberrant as well. I'm aware enough of the situation to know that the example I cited above had nothing to do with attempting to groom/approach minors; It was a statement on vanity and a fear of showing signs of aging (which our culture has cultivated heavily and is illustrated by plenty of people who *do not* have allegations against them through various examples. The popularity of FaceTune comes to mind across gender and socioeconomic status.) I will say that if you think a youthful appearance is what is needed to take advantage of underage individuals - you are frighteningly mistaken. I didn't address SA in my post because there are literally *hundreds* of other comment threads on this matter. Frankly, I feel that if you truly wanted to have a genuine discussion regarding that aspect of the video topic, you would have gone to one of those. I personally do not appreciate you using my comment to dig it out with a "smart" statement which inevitably comes across as mocking a *very* serious topic just so you can make a glib pull. I don't think you realized how much you dehumanized victims in your statement, or how by making it in the first place you used SA to serve your purposes needlessly. It was crass. I hope in the future you put more forethought in where when and how to appropriately express yourself.
@@searchingfororion I didn't interpret their response as "someone needs to dress young to SA young people". Seemed like they were thinking that maybe Charles was going after young people as part of his desire to convince himself that he's also still young. Disclaimer, I'm not taking any stance on this because we don't know enough about a famous stranger (i.e. Charles) to make any kind of meaningful psychological assessments of their motivations, whether about predatory behavior **or** fashion bingeing. Both are hypothetical conversations.
As someone who buys maybe 3-4 new “pieces” of clothing a year (not including undies) and 1-2 pairs of shoes (at most) a YEAR. I can’t imagine replacing my whole wardrobe every few months. Sometimes when I’m feeling a little extra I will buy duplicates of a “piece” I love and walk around looking like a cartoon character because in the real world no one cares if you wear the same fit over and over as long as it’s clean😂
@@sloane4836 Nope USA born and raised and properly ashamed of it😂 (meaning- I participate in poltical action and mutual aid, while fully realizing it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the harm done by the US at home and abroad.) Edit: very curious why did ya assume Australian??
@@mikalin9286 Just when you said "undies". It sounded really Aussie. Fight the good fight Mika, thanks for your participation. I can't imagine iit's a fun time to be in the US at the moment.
When I was a little girl this kind of bragging about how expensive your clothes are was the definition of LA culture. NYC culture was the opposite: constantly bragging about what a bargain you got on your expensive-looking clothes. James Charles from LA telling his confusing story about buying expensive sunglasses in NYC that he thought were cheap is causing my old lady brain to implode.
It's amazing just how many times he's had a scandal that should have rightfuuly ended him, he just lies low for a bit, and then comes back as if nothing has happened. We will never ever be rid of him, and his one makeup style will we?
The part where James was talking about how he "can't" wear clothing after he posts a photo in them is why the fashion industry + influencers are so damaging for the environment. It makes me sad :(
This just goes to show that he really does follow trends. Not one item really stood out as genuine. It leaves me with more questions tbh. Does he not have any decadent pieces? What about gifted items from family members or friends? There are items in my closet that I simply could not throw away. Such as the sweater my mom knitted me, a cashmere sweater set I found at an estate sale, a shirt I bought with my best friend years ago. Everything in James closes is so “trended and aesthetic”, that he must have lost touch completely with who he was before the fame. Scandals aside, this is truly sad to see. This closet is just so fake.
To be fair, “Lighting all the candles in my house to see if it can raise the temperature even 1 degree” is a classic Jenna marbles video I would watch.
lmao james was trying to recreate Kim Kardashian remembering every day and event she wore each outfit in her warehouse in the new season of Kardashians
Oh my gosh!!! You’re so right I remember seeing a clip of that recently and thinking it was cool… obviously James saw it, too. Lmao, he’s totally trying to copy her!
I'm physically repulsed by these closets... Reinforces my determination to only buy from local brands and small businesses that sew to my measurements. And thrift
I fully burst out laughing at the 'crouching in front of a restaurant' - truly a memorable moment for his fans and fashion historians for decades to come, I'm sure
I would rather see a closet/house tour of a person who makes a normal amount of money. Show me how you organize your target clothes please. That's my vibe.
The thing about buying a new wardrobe every month makes me so angry. Clothes make so much waste and ones that are donated aren't always even sold afterward.
Can’t expect someone to stay in touch with reality when they do seem to be living and thriving in their own little world… just another cockroach that keeps coming back no matter what
I rewatch the cameo my mom bought from you for me on the reg. Thank you for being you and helping me disassociate from reality, when I and so many desperately need it. You save my life everyday by talking over my intrusive thoughts. I don't know if you'll read this, but I'm so grateful to you and your content. Thank you a million times, I promise to like everything you post even if you go through a shitty second album phase. I will be *there* for you and it. 💚💚💚💚
Nick's takedown of some of these awful RU-vidrs like Shane dawson, Jeffree Star and now James Charles are so poignant "(EDIT: and piquant. That was my word of today in my email, how appropriate)" well thought out, and f'n hilarious. Nick, you are incredible at cutting to the core of what these people are actually doing and I commend you for it, sir. Been watching since you first showed up on RU-vid. Much love to you. DO IT ROCK-A-PELLA
I've literally worn a sweater I own multiple times over the past 10 years, and still counting. Like boo, calm down, no need to spotlight how great you are at contributing to fast fashion and its high intensity to pollution. We love a pollution queen~
At first i thought JC was just wearing a sweartshirt that was made to look like you only had it half on and didn’t actually have another arm or whatever, and then he turned around and i could see it was actually just half on and honestly I’m just so confused how you could make that fashion choice. I can see wearing something uncomfortable because it looked really good, but that looks uncomfortable and it’s just a half-on sweatshirt like wtf hahaha
Not to out myself as the regional retired horsegirl that read too much zoology books, but it drives me up the wall when people call cloven hooves horse hooves. Horses are single toed omg
“Thank god i’m almost done with this video” is the equivalent of Ariana Grande going to Ulta and talking about her brand that she knows nothing about. “Yeah just buy whatever you want ha ha” 🤣🤣🤣
@@maikebananane165 I also use a big, standing one with a seperate water tank but those don't make much sense unless you're doing 10+ garments at a time. Be careful with them ☝️☝️ steam burns are no joke so be safe 🙂🙂 but the travel one is 100% my favorite since I have to steam lots of non clothing items too and its easy to maneuver.
Lmao when he was talking about the glasses costing 8.75 I was so confused because $9 is super cheap for glasses. I almost choked when nick said they cost $875. For sunglasses.
nick could you PLEASE do a clip breakdown on revenge of the bridesmaids?? i used to watch it all the time and still my favorite movie, i’d love to hear your thoughts LOL. your videos have been keeping giving me all of my seratonin this summer thank you for uploading so often!
Honestly, I think that "If people know you have money..." comment was actually even worse. Rather than ending it in "they'll target you for robbery", I got the impression he was going to end it with "they'll target you with false allegations." It's a common accusation, used against for instance the women who accused Trump, Cosby, and Kobe, of making it up to get a hush money payment.
I have stuff in my closet that I can't even seem to get rid of cause "you never know when you're gonna wanna wear it" or it has a weird sentimental value/ memories attached 😅 so I never get rid of clothes unless they're falling apart at the seams, can't imagine getting a new wardrobe every month 😳
Who wants a tour of my closet? I've got a whole rack of clothes that make me sad because I'll never fit in them again, and my husband has like thirty identical pairs of ratty cargo shorts!
This is me politely asking for you to review the DCOM Moto-Crossed. I always love a good ‘I can do just as much as the boys can’ story but it’s super cheesy (but so nostalgic to me) Love your videos 💕💕💕
If I spent $875 on sunglasses, I would lose them immediately. I can only buy $8.75 ones, because I never ever lose those somehow. Also, as someone who has 10+ year old clothes he still wears, thinking of replacing clothes that often makes me ill.
15:35 had me CACKLING the bored af light guy just shining his ipad looking LED at james while he futzes with his hair is GOLD like yes sir give us nothing
15:01 It's a Tabi sock made into a boot. Tabi socks are what we Japanese traditionally wear w a kimono. Wtf why buy this and call it a horse hoof. Kind of insulting culutrally. James is not very fashion knowledgeable he's just some rich kid w money. It's kind of grating on me.
Influencers don't just seem "out of touch," they seem straight up soulless and empty inside. I know his closet is *supposed* to be a flex, but to me it just seems unbelievably boring....imagine not having your own fashion sense and allowing trends (usually created by teens) to dictate your whole life. Sounds miserable.
