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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Oct 2014

    Curious feature of fashion: if you trick a sufficient number of people into believing x is fashionable, you're no longer tricking them.

    11:27 AM - 16 Oct 2014
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      2. Hanh Nguyen‏ @fashiongiik 16 Oct 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg True for art in general (fashion, music, etc). There is no formula to define "good", so most people have herd mentality.

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Oct 2014
        Replying to @fashiongiik

        @fashiongiik No, that's not true. http://paulgraham.com/goodart.html 

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      4. Hanh Nguyen‏ @fashiongiik 16 Oct 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Maybe because of the demographic of people who like fashion?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZSbK_SMkf0 …

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      2. Laurent Giroud‏ @laurentgiroud 16 Oct 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg fashion is the art of exploiting the faulty behaviour of legacy evolutionary hardware outside of its spec’d domain for profit. Ugly.

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      1. Sambodhi Prem‏ @SambodhiPrem 11 Sep 2017
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        "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." - Oscar Wilde

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      2. Jim Stogdill  🙊‏ @jstogdill 16 Oct 2014
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        @paulg Curious feature of X, where X can be fashion, politics, business models, ...

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      3. HRT drug dealer to kids‏ @beka_valentine 16 Oct 2014
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        @jstogdill @paulg theres an interesting parallel to performative sentences like "I name this ship X" -- act of saying youre doing it does it

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      4. HRT drug dealer to kids‏ @beka_valentine 16 Oct 2014
        Replying to @beka_valentine

        @jstogdill @paulg also, "I now pronounce you man and wife", "I beg you", etc.

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      1. Mahbod‏ @mahbodmoghadam 24 Oct 2014
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        @paulg PAUL, TRUST ME: you know nothing about fashion. LMAO

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      1. Chris Lamprecht‏ @mthreat 16 Oct 2014
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        @paulg In 25 years they'll realized you tricked them.

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      1. Pablo Osinaga‏ @posinaga 16 Oct 2014
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        @paulg the same happens in the arts no? The IVm chord didn't make any sense until the Beatles over use it and became good-sounding

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      1. Lisa Radin‏ @milguy23 16 Oct 2014
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        @paulg 'Trick' is an interesting word to choose. Fashion industry might like 'convince' or 'ignite enthusiasm'.

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      1. Philip Welch‏ @philiplwelch 17 Oct 2014
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        @paulg Perhaps less the raw number of people and more the cumulative amount of influence they wield.

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      1. John Rattue‏ @bonapart100 17 Oct 2014
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        @paulg @ellouis Yep. They've subsumed it, and is therefore no longer fashionable.

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      1. Dad‏ @GeekAndDad 16 Oct 2014
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        @paulg trendsetting!

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      1. Mike Runnals‏ @MikeRunnals 16 Oct 2014
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        @paulg finally an explanation for bell bottoms!

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      1. Patrick Healy‏ @patrickhealyid 16 Oct 2014
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        @paulg A suit that looked good on James Bond in 1962 would look good in any era. It may not be trendy, but it is good.

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      1. Patrick Healy‏ @patrickhealyid 16 Oct 2014
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        @paulg Your essay on Good Art is equally relevant to good fashion. JNCOs were wildly popular, but they weren't good.

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      1. Lavanya‏ @lavanyashukla 16 Oct 2014
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        .@paulg That'd be creating trends, not fashion. :) Like art, great fashion is about speaking to people's taste, which are not as malleable.

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