THE ANTIDOTE
Monday, September 11, 2006 at 12:53AM 
Geek chic is something I have always had a thing for. 'Cause let's face it: It's the geeks from high school that are now setting trends and considered cool. Remember what happened with Sofia Coppola, she was considered ugly and a crap actress 15 years ago and now she's a successful director and uber cool. Also remember David Bowie the skinny singer songwriter with hideous teeth that became Ziggy and set a whole new standard. The same with Yves Saint Laurent, the geekiest man ever but Yves at the age of 21 was put in charge of the effort of saving the Dior house from financial ruin. YES! Tres cool!
Favourites of mine in the geek area is the hot fashion duo Viktor & Rolf.
(Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren pictured above.)
I read an article about them in the new September issue of 'Paper' when I was on a domestic flight in France. When I read that they possibly may have found an antidote for boring fashion fuck-ups I almost poured my coffee in the lap of the guy sitting next to me.
Those of you who are regulars here at Gangster know that I hate a lot of things and boring fashion is high up on that list.
I HATE ugly and baggy jeans on guys just because they are designed not to show the ass and boring outfits on girls that show their tits because their faces are so boring they need to draw attention away from that fact. You know what I'm talking about.
The antidote is spelled V&R!
Their new (and first fragrance for men) ANTIDOTE plays with the classical stereotypes about men and women and creates a fucking great mess.
Classic male scents like sandalwood and white cedar notes will be joined by fresh floral scents usually found in perfumes for women.
How cool is that? A small but important step towards no more guys smelling like old men or having cheap shit like AXE/LYNX around their necks. A small step for mankind perhaps but an oh so important one for us fashionistas with a hate list and a blog.
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Read more on the VR website ---->
GANGSTER
...and yes of course we love Comme des Garçons parfum and Rei K as well.
Who can forget the lovely 'Odeur' and other things connected to the Japanese queen of quirk?
However, this V&R fragrance is cool because it targets men as a male fragrance and not as a unisex fragrance for avant-garde clubbers and queens.
And no, we don't believe that AXE/LYNX jerks with baggy jeans and girlfriends with dog faces and massive tits in vest tops will follow immediately but one can dream hopefully. The men and women mix is for me not yesterday at all. However I would like to say that 'unisex' stuff and
fashion/fragrances with a hint of stereotypical 'femme' in them that target men has a distinct difference between them. To me having a unisex or even a femme approach whilst identifying yourself as male isn't a big thing, but I know that it provokes people and can get people in big trouble. So this idea having a slighly geeky fashion line for men and not do the unisex thang but using femme influences is a really cool thing.
Peace.
Reader Comments (3)
I LOVE the Rufus Wainright interview with them in the previous Butt issue.
don't get me wrong, i love V&R too but it takes alot more than just a fragrance to saves us from boring fashion-fuckups. and do u really think that AXE/LYNX consumers will buy V&R instead? lets face it, boring fashion-fuckups is sadly here to stay.