{"id":1112,"date":"2009-11-19T19:36:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T11:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2009-11-19T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T11:36:26","slug":"lose-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"lose yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"the real salvador dali (photo: www.tate.org.uk)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dali.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1110\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?attachment_id=1110\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dali.jpg?fit=600%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dali\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dali.jpg?fit=600%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dali.jpg?h=328\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dali.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dali.jpg?resize=257%2C300&amp;ssl=1 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"hussein chalayan spring\/summer '10\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hussein-as-dali.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1111\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?attachment_id=1111\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hussein-as-dali.jpg?fit=320%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"320,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hussein-as-dali\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hussein-as-dali.jpg?fit=320%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1111\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hussein-as-dali.jpg?h=328\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hussein-as-dali.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hussein-as-dali.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>the wrong:<\/strong> sending the wrong message<\/em><\/p>\n<p>for hussein chalayan spring \/ summer 2010, the most important look is # 42 &#8211; hussein himself came out pulling a dali. and it is also the most disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>lacking the punches and the muscle from his early career, he is now reduced to a part of the fashion machine. whatever happened to the &#8220;let-the-works-speak-for-themselves&#8221;? puma being creatively directed by him has showed no teeth and no improvement. his own namesake line with the backing of ppr (or gucci if you will) is looking worst than when he was independent. what the hell on earth is going on with him?<\/p>\n<p>i guess you can call it surreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the wrong: sending the wrong message for hussein chalayan spring \/ summer 2010, the most important look is # 42 &#8211; hussein himself came out pulling a dali. and it is also the most disappointing. lacking the punches and the muscle from his early career, he is now reduced to a part of the fashion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[35,56],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wrong","tag-hussein-chalayan","tag-salvador-dali"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pp6zn-hW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":193,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=193","url_meta":{"origin":1112,"position":0},"title":"furniture &#038; fashion","author":"deacon","date":"21 Oct 08","format":false,"excerpt":"fashion designers are control freaks. their working studio\u2019s interior and the choices of furniture are all part of their regulated world. in time, it becomes the inspiration. hussein chalayan first raised the relationship between furniture and fashion in his fall\/winter 2000 'afterwords' collection. the runway was constructed like a room.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;the past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"the past","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?cat=11"},"img":{"alt_text":"chalayan-fw00-1-t","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dailydozencreative.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/chalayan-fw00-1-t.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1209,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=1209","url_meta":{"origin":1112,"position":1},"title":"pucci and missed opportunities","author":"deacon","date":"23 May 10","format":false,"excerpt":"the wrong: paralyzed by heritage designers stephan janson, julio espada, christian lacroix and mathew williamson all swung and missed. currently, poor peter dundas is still just looking for the bat. we are talking about a game of pucci. to many, pucci is a colorful retro-print house. i suspect that such\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;the wrong&quot;","block_context":{"text":"the wrong","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?cat=19"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pucci-at-work.jpg?fit=600%2C330&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pucci-at-work.jpg?fit=600%2C330&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.deaconyu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pucci-at-work.jpg?fit=600%2C330&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":958,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=958","url_meta":{"origin":1112,"position":2},"title":"china","author":"deacon","date":"21 May 09","format":false,"excerpt":"we were up in china last week for a meeting with a potential client. while waiting for the car to pick us up, we started to explore this 'downtown' area near the train station out of boredom. being brave, we wandered into this center area that resemble a fancy shoppping\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;reminders&quot;","block_context":{"text":"reminders","link":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?cat=14"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1443,"url":"https:\/\/blog.deaconyu.com\/?p=1443","url_meta":{"origin":1112,"position":3},"title":"co-incident 10?","author":"deacon","date":"3 Jun 12","format":false,"excerpt":"on the left, it is the burberry storefront in beijing. on the right it is a 'buebelly' storefront in shenzhen. really? 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