Matte black Prius

Innovative modes of living?

On owning your own aesthetic tastes? 

Another interesting thing that I’ve been noticing; how much of aesthetic tastes are essentially hijacked or controlled or directed by certain individuals industries etc.

For example, I remember in high school, to wear all black clothing was considered insanely bizarre; even to wear black jeans was seen as very strange?

The aesthetic in high school was really really dark blue denim like really dark indigo, maybe just a simple white T-shirt, white sneakers, white K Swiss tennis shoes, and that was it?

Also, with cars… When I was in high school, there was zero interest in anybody owning a black car. This was not an aesthetic.

Instead, it was to own a red Integra type R, super low and slammed to the floor, with maybe white rims, or bronze or gold rims? Or with black gloss rims with a silver lip?

But then again, also how much of this was just aesthetic fashion trend in the 90s and early 2000s versus what our aesthetic preferences are?

Cars & clothes

So the first thing to consider is that ultimately, cars and clothes are probably the two biggest fashion points. This is where most people in modern day life use and waste their time.

For example, funny enough… I see all of these women who seemingly seem woke and whatever… Yet all of their life is just dedicated to chasing new clothes in fashion objects, and binge watching some sort of really really trashy Netflix show of rich people of Dubai?

And also men, they are no better.

My brother-in-law John Narciso wants wisely told me that if you want to sell cars, you have to design the cars for women; this is why a lot of high-powered performance SUV cars actually typically marketed to women. Why? Women feels fragile and insecure on the road, if they drive a huge Range Rover or a huge Mercedes-Benz AMG g wagon, they feel somehow protected from the crazy drivers on the road.

What I find very interesting about cars is that any 4 foot tall midget can jump into a massively raised truck, and boom suddenly he is like a giant. But the second in which you put the Shorty guys on the ground, standing up straight, face-to-face with a 6 foot tall demigod Hero, they are nothing.

Most people who are into fashion are ugly

If you look at all these designers, the people actually designing and making the clothes, the models, everyone in the industry… For the most part people are quite ugly. The models are tall and beautiful, but often looks strange, that is what gives them their appeal.

And if you look at people who control the whole fashion industry like Anna Wintour, she is kind of a strange looking unattractive woman. Even when she was young she was not beautiful.

And then you have a legion of women who want to become like Audrey Hepburn, but once again this is another strange ideal?