The Armoury in Japan - W. David Marx, Author of Ametora, on Fashion, Culture and Living in Japan 

@@markchodotcom I totally agree--I look forward to reading it! thanks for the great content!

Do you have any recommendations? I just finished Ametora

​@@Jimmysajbel ​ I suppose it depends on your interests. David Marx's new book is out but there's plenty of other people in the classic menswear scene with noteworthy books (Hugo Jacomet, G. Bruce Boyer etc) and I think Mark did a series on book recommendations for ArmouryTV too. I've still not delved that deep into any particular subject so I guess you'd just have to see what's out there.

Lovely, Shea

@shea g thank you so much!

@@markchodotcom i feel like contrarian culture is almost turning in on itself these days, less like the Ouroboros and more ever fractaling out into ever more niche articles of contrarianism. people react against the norm and then their own react against them and then a subset of them react against them ad infinitum until people are mocking each other for holding the popular opinion on a forum with 10 people on it. if nothing else i think its an incentive to keep some measure of creativity alive in an increasingly trend driven internet.

@@markchodotcom Grazie mille Mark! Great conversation! Please keep up the great work and being an ongoing resource for style and sophistication!

@@markchodotcom Love exposure, its a 6 hour long experience like no other

David is wearing his olive cotton piece by Tailor Caid

I''m sure there are many arguments you could make as well for why NFTs are a status symbol, however if you would like to dive into this topic more I'd encourage you to read David's take on this on his blog here culture.ghost.io/art-versus-commerce-in-the-nft-era/

He cites bourdieu in his book, so im gonna say yes.

Haha! That is true ametora right there. It was touched on it in the talk. Having money, but trying to look like you do not have it is somewhat common idea throughout.

Disagree 100%