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Réginald-Jérôme de Mans
@RJdeMans
Public account of Réginald-Jérôme de Mans, author of SWAN SONGS: SOUVENIRS OF PARIS ELEGANCE, available at https://t.co/whkcPaEscO
Apr 28, 2023 • 44 tweets • 7 min read
OK, entering the menswear guy’s breach again. This poast in derek’s tweetthread about the shallowness of most media about luxury fashion, especially luxury craft fashion like custom shoemakers, got stuck in my head like a Steven Seagal Epic Guitar Solo. Let’s explicate/explode it It’s got it all: the reflexive words like craft, the status-sucking references to “the world’s most elegant neighbourhoods” and to the supposed trend for stealth wealth or quiet luxury with words like “understated”, along with the thesaurus-ravaging pretention of words like...