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Trend Forecasting Project Fashion Art Direction MA 2019 Elena Bozinova Alessandra DiBernardo Polimoda International Institute of Fashion Design and Marketing
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There are certain phases that the night goes through..
A metamorphisis of,
not just the darkness, but the people in it.
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Before entering the dark, people go through a routine of dressing up in an attire, different from their daily one. In Rabelais and His World (1968)
You can say they put on a mask, and as night progresses so does their mask. It starts with being a perfect constellation full of energy, but as the midnight hour passes and the early morning creeps up, the perfect mask begins to remove itself.
The make-up begins to decay, the hair moves from its perfect position and the attire has gotten a stain or tear along the way, yet it is the same attire, just a morphed one.
Mikhail Bakhtin talks about the disguise in connection to festivities. He draws references from
the Middle Ages
and how a common image among those times was the actor being disguised as a king.
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This image, of the trashing
As evening transgresses, the king’s reign comes to an end and his costume changes as a symbol of
being equivalent to a change of costume, mirrors today’s party goers.
this,
it receives abuse and trashing.
Bakhtin writes that ”it is the king’s uncrowning”,
in which the disguise and mask is teared off.
They leave their home with one attire, and during the night’s escapades this attire undergoes a metamorphosis, a trashing.
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The grotesque body ceases to be something biologically individual and closed, and becomes something belonging to the people Grotesque realism
and open.4 is defined as an
aesthetic concept in which the body is central.2 The grotesque body is the degradation, the lowering of all that is high, nobel and ideal into something base.
This body is never therefore complete, but continues to morph, create, and build.
It transforms the human elements of the body into animal ones, into something exaggerated, hyperbolic and excessive.3 In other words, it outgrows itself, expanding out into the world.
Openings of the body are symbols of the grotesque, but as well as the entrance and exit for fluids.5
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The image of the carnival has an ambivalence to it. It is the merging of opposites,
In Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics (1984) Mikhail Bakhtin introduces the concept of the carnival and the carnivalesque.
such as
He writes that the carnivalistic life is ”life turned inside out”.
It is a time in which normal routines and norms are drawn out of their habitual ways, where the usual structure of laws, prohibitions and hierarchies are suspended.6
youth and old age, face and backside, stupidity and wisdom.
This contrast of high and low can be seen in dress, with materials and silhouettes mixing into unusual combinations 8. Just like carnival frees people from daily etiquette, it liberates them in dress choice.
The non-existence of socio-hierarchical structures between people leads to what Bakhtin calls ”free and familiar interaction among people”, and it is in this situation we find the Nocturnal Drifter.
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The Nocturnal Drifter is a partygoer, one that does not go home when the club closes. It is a person who stays up during the after-hours, when the workers have cleaned up and gone home.
Together in groups s/he drifts between different spaces as time passes. This character finds new people during a night out, often people that would never encounter each other in their daily lives.
Classifications such as age, profession, class and sexuality cease to exists. Instead, a new group is formed, with all the nightly creatures creating one entity.
There is a melancholy in the Nocturnal Drifter, because the time in which it blossoms remains for only a few hours, before it is dismantled with the sunrise.
It is a character that belongs to a certain time, but not a certain space.7 The night, the streets, the clubs
and the afterparties belong to the carnival, in other words its limit is with time and not space.
As night transgresses the group takes on different shapes, with people coming, going and being lost. The unusual gathering often leads to unusual things happening.
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introduction to characters I & II
The free play of carnival leads to binaries meeting, people who’s characteristics seem to be the opposite, yet together they form a symbiosis.
In On one side we have the narrator, the extrovert who thrives of the party’s energy.
1921, Carl Jung published Psychological Types.
In the book he defines the two personality traits of
On the other side we have the wallflower, the introvert who observes.
extroversion and introversion, stating that the main difference is the characters’ relationship to oneself and the outside world.
These two character’s depend on each other during a night out because they are each others complement, without the second, the first would not function.
The extrovert gives his full attention to the external world,
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Both character’s share the same enthusiasm, while the narrator displays this through his mouth, the wallflower’s enthusiasm is sealed within him.
the introvert puts all energy on his internal.
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Archaic Twilight
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Twilight Sweet evening’s come, the criminal’s disguise and quiet accomplice, stealing over the skies slowly closing down their vault of light as mankind eagerly reverts to brute.
- Charles Baudelaire
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The narrator thrives of entertaining others, telling stories and keeping the party alive. The importance that the narrator gives to the outer world
This character produces his own storyline during the night, acting upon the external environment and thereby creating
and the people in it leads to a neglect of himself, the subject.
actions and reactions.
The narrator has a constant tendency to appeal for interest and
This can especially be seen in the narrator’s relationship to his body, something internal.
produce impressions upon his surroundings.9 Due to extroversion, the narrator’s energy being fully directed to the external, the body suffers physically. This gives the expression of him being somewhat extravagant, energetic and archaic. You can call the character an open book, who directs his entire consciousness outwards to the world.10
By neglect, not giving the care and nourishment the body needs to sustain,
”the body suffers, to say nothing of the soul” Jung writes.11
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The narrator has an objective relationship to the outside world and himself, meaning that ideas, like everything else, are gathered from outside
Subsequently, the narrator creatively moves towards tradition and education when forming ideas.12 Thus, the narrator often draws to the traditional sense of beauty. And so he tends to dress in more mimicry-type of fabrics, such as fur, leather, reptile skin, and natural textiles.
Because of his openness to his surroundings this character prefers to wear single garments, rather than layering, so as not to feel constraint and captivated. The urge to embrace his surrounding world, means that the narrator does not overthink dress choice.
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Dawn Debauchees, tired by their efforts, headed for rest. Shivering dawn in a robe of pink and green made her way slowly along the deserted Seine, and sombre Paris, eyes rubbed and watering, groped for its tools, an old man, labouring. - Charles Baudelaire
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As a character, the wallflower is always there, present and observant.
The night is the time when the wallflower is able to participate on his own terms. It frees him to dress more liberally, something that daylight with work, school and public sphere, restricts. The wallflower prefers to let his product speak for him, instead of personally explaining,
He is a being that directs his energy inwards to the soul and subjective.
this makes him place a big amount of energy on his appearance.
Hence, you might experience the wallflower as commonplace and a closed book upon first glance.13
Instead of communicating with words, the introvert lets the clothes speak.15 The emphasis on the internal creates a mysterious aura around this character.
This is not necessarily correct, the introverted trait just means one has to draw the essence out. Because of the character’s self-awareness, his personality is only revealed as a finished product, like
In regards to aesthetic, the wallflower who looks into himself to form understanding.
He gathers subjective data and are more likely to form ideas based on internal aspects, like emotions and personal preferences. Instead of taking ideas from the outside world, the wallflower forms
something perfectly polished, thus in order to protect himself from the outside world he so often fears.14
abstract ideas,
he seeks to distance himself instead of mimicking it. With clothes the wallflower builds his own counter-world as a shield to the surroundings.16 This results in singularity, uniqueness and incomparability.17
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1 Michail Bachtin (1968) Rabelais and his world p. 197 2 Michail Bachtin (1968) Rabelais and his world p. 19 3 Michail Bachtin (1968) Rabelais and his world p. 303 4 Michail Bachtin (1968) Rabelais and his world p. 19 5 Michail Bachtin (1968) Rabelais and his world p. 325 6 Michail Bachtin (1984)Problems of Dostoevsky’s poetics p. 122 7 Michail Bachtin (1984)Problems of Dostoevsky’s poetics p. 128 8 Michail Bachtin (1984)Problems of Dostoevsky’s poetics p. 126
Bibliography
Bachtin, Michail (1984) Problems of Dostoevsky’s poetics, Univ. of Minn. P., Minneapolis Bachtin, Michail (1968) Rabelais and his world, transl. by Helene Iswolsky. M.I.T.Press, Cambridge, Mass. Baudelaire, Charles (2015) Selected poems from Les Fleurs du Mal, Arc Publications Baudelaire, Charles & Fowlie, Wallace (2010) The Flowers of Evil & Paris Spleen: Selected Poems, Green ed., Dover Publications, Mineola, N.Y. Jung, C. G. (1971) The collected works of C.G. Jung. Vol. 6, Psychological Types, Routledge & Paul, London
9 Carl G. Jung (1971) Psychological Types p.419 10 Carl G. Jung (1971) Psychological Types p.417 11 Carl G. Jung (1971) Psychological Types p. 419 12 Carl G. Jung (1971) Psychological Types p. 423 13 Carl G. Jung (1971) Psychological Types p. 408 14 Carl G. Jung (1971) Psychological Types p. 405 15 Carl G. Jung (1971) Psychological Types p. 405 16 Carl G. Jung (1971) Psychological Types p. 362 17 Carl G. Jung (1971) Psychological Types p. 520
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Interview 1, Nikita
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Okey, best party experience was in New York. My friend owns this club called Brooklyn Mirage. Uhhm, well my friend actually sold it, so another friend owns it, Philip. They sold it for like a huge amount and it’s like this… huge club that fits about 15000 people. Like, the real estate property for that club costs like 100 million dollars. And so the club was pretty much like a festival outdoors with a 2 mil lion dollar sound system, 400 thousand dollars light- ning, crazy shit. And so they had a night there, erm, the night was Tom, erm Jamie Jones!
It was like a tropical theme and they had palmtrees up, it was like summer. And I met the designer of the club, Ronaldo, and this guy I think he was trying to fuck me, though. But anyways, he took me VIP and shit, and then it was kind of boring. And then we had this drink, I guess it had something in it, ’cause we drank the drinks and then the night turned like electric. And we got so much energy and started feeling this like really magnetic vibe. We met this two girls, from Ibiz uuhm, super hot, crazy. So like, they were like trying to get, to get us home the whole night, but we wanted to stay until the end. Elena: Did you go out last night? Nikita: Yes E: Yeah, where did you go? N: I went to Red Garter. And I handed out flyers at 1 AM, for the party tonight. E: Did you do it by yourself? N: Yeeeeah, because I couln’t sleep so I just went out by myself [laughing] I was very stressed. E: Did you meet people? N: Yeah, I met a lot of people, drunk Americans.
Alessandra: So tell us about your best party experience?
And then we ended up at Ronaldos, he, Ronaldo owns a church, in the middle of Williamsburg. So we went to his church, he actually owns the tower of the church. We went to this church tower, with the two girls from Ibiza and a bunch of other girls. And then a few DJs from the party, and we had a private set. We had this DJ called, Thug Fucker, he was like very popular, also we had him play a private set for us, in the church tower. And we all had an orgy in the fucking church tower. This is my first time in a church. It was like an amazing night, then we woke up and did DMT, this guy from the Ama, not the Amazon, he is from Russia, but he brings his shit from the Amazon. He brought over DMT, we all did DMT, then we got breakfast in the morning all together and just chilled and watched Netflix all day.
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E: Sounds sick, when was this? A couple of years ago?
E: Would we find something that is bright red? Or yellow?
N: This was this last summer.
N: Red yeah, yellow… I mean yellow patterns. A: Nothing too flashy?
A: Cool. Okey let’s see. I guess we will go into some fashion questions. How do you like to dress when you go out? Do you just wear whatever or do you put some thought in it?
N: Yeah A: What kind of textures or materials, you said silk?
N: Well it depends, like sometime in New York if we throw like a warehouse party or if my friends are throwing a party, I will just wear more like black, like all dark. But if I am going to Brooklyn Mirage or like a bigger club, with more lighting and shit, more people, I will just wear all like silk.
N: Like velvet, silk. Jeans. I mean I like jean, but I don’t like jeans that much. I like more pants, more than jeans.
E: But here in Florence, when you go out on a Saturday just random, would you, do you dress up or go with the things you wore during the day? N: Sometimes with the things I have on, I don’t really care. But if I am going to like a more event thing I will wear different things. More silk and patterns, and colour and shit.
E: Do you always wear the same jewellery?
N: Yes, I mean here I only brought, this jewellery. Like diamond, one [in audible] chain, and that’s all I brought here. But in New York I have a bigger collection because I used to sell stones, when I used to live in India. I partnered with an Israeli guy, and he had a diamond cutting factory, and so I started exporting stones. He has a boutique in Israel. I have a collection of different things.
E: Do you think of shoes? N: I use all nice shoes, because I have different shoes, if it matches my outfit I will wear them, and I don’t really care if they get ruined because then I’ll just buy new ones. [Everyone laughing] E: Do you have a colour you prefer over other, or denim? N: I like, all different colours. But not like, mostly like white, grey black but with different colours on it. Or like brown.
A: Why do you go out? What drives you to go out?
N: It’s like the community. Because I started going out in Germany. And after a few months I had the opportunity to throw my own parties. And then I started meeting a lot of DJs and agents, producers etc. And then I began going out in other places like France, Ibiza, New York, South Africa. And then I started meeting the same people, or people who new each other. And it’s like really cool, ’cause it feels like you are part of something that is world wide, international. You can be anywhere in the world, and message a friend and he’ll be like ”Ah I know this DJ there”.
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A: Do you prefer to blend in or stand out at a party? N: Both [laughing], both. A: Both. N: Both, yeah. Sometimes the one, sometimes the other. But actually usually if I’m at a party, and I like the music, I just want to dance and not talk to anyone. E: Do you smoke? N: Yeah
E: Yeah, so you go out for socialising more than I don’t know what the other reason would be?
A: Do you wake up with bruises.
N: Music as well. I like the music. That as well forms the community, the community is formed around that sound. That’s basically how I found my apartment here in Florence. I was organising parties in New York and we had a meeting with an agent from Paris and he introduced me to someone that used to go to Polimoda 10 years ago. Here, she still lives here, and she helped me find an apartment, help me organise my paperwork here, she introduced me to a lot of really cool friends.
N: [Laughing] Yeah! And burns! Fell down the stairs twice this weekend. I burnt my hand. And then I took a bunch of sleeping pills, to try to fall asleep, not to kill myself. And then I had to get up to do something, I forgot I had to do something, like before I went to sleep. It was already like an hour in. And when you take sleeping pills, you lose your balance. And I just fell over into my fucking vacuum and just smashed my arm and face. And now I have like, the big fucking bruise.[Laughing] ”Do you wake up with bruises?” Scratches.
A: Do you prefer bars or clubs? N: Cluuubs. Or warehouses.
E: It feels like the community is super open… N: Exactly! Everyone helps each other. E: So when you go out do you usually hang out with the same group or would you say you mingle around? N: I mean, yeah, I talk to many people. There is always people, like a wave of people coming in and out of the club, the community as well. There’s always new people. For example for me, the first time I had to talk to someone new obviously. And every time I go to a new city, I go to a club, to get introduced to the community. E: Do you think it is usually you introducing you friends to other people? N: Both, both!
A: So more underground scene. N: Mmm. Yeah. E: Do you go out with the same crowd? N: Not always. A: You said you went out last night by yourself, so you feel fine to go out a lone? N: For sure E: Do you have a group that you call when you want to have a crazier night? One that is more calm? N: Yeah, there is like a core group of people, that I know are like down for anything. For sure there is like a core. There is people that I know go out all the time, are down for anything to like until 10 AM. And I know that not all people want to do that.
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H: Uuuuh. uuuuh. Uh uh uh. Oh yeah, Berlin, definitely. E: What happened in Berlin?
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H: Everything happened in Berlin, Berlin blew my mind. E: When was this? H: Last summer. And you know, I done everything there. E: Did you go to Berghain? H: No, I did not. E: Where did you go? H: Griessmuehle! E: OH I went there this summer! H: Yeah, did you like it?
Alessandra: Did you go out last night? Harry: Yes I did A: How was it? H: Waaas intense, very intense. Elena: Where did you go? H: Where did we go? Yes we went to Gosh, and we went to this bar behind the train station, we had a blast there. And then yeah, Montecarla, that’s basically just it there. Waiting for the coke to arrive. Once we got the coke, we went back to my house, after party, after party, after party talk, intelligent shit.
E: Yes, loved it. H: It’s intense, and the bathroom, the bathroom is ehhh dirty as fuck. E: Did anything special happen? Meet new people? H: Yes, I met this Turkish guy, with two hookers. I hung out with them. And this two, kept going inside, this closed area, we went there, took some MD, took some coke. And yeah, it was amazing there. E: Was it is the same Turkish guy we hung out with? H: Oh yes same, but we met another one. E: Did you go to an afterparty? H: No unfortunately. We stayed until 7-8.
E: Intelligent shit? H: Yeah, intelligent shit. E: Who was the interviewer?
A: Harry, how do you like to dress when you go out?
H: Homeless.
H: Who was the… everyone! Gaia. A: So Harry, tell us about your best party experience.
[everyone laughing] A: I like it!
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A: So why do you go out? What drives you to go out? H: That’s a really good question… Uuhmm. Pussy. Like, 95% of time is chasing pussy. The other 5% is enjoying time with friends. E: Is it to get high, listen to music, talk with people? H: People! People.. A: So, do you prefer to blend in our stand out? H: Stand out all the way!
E: Do you dress differently, the same during the day?
E: In what way do you stand out when you go out?
H: Yeah, it’s just the most comfortable I feel. Homeless.
H: How would I stand out? E: Yeah, like dress?
A: Do you worry about your shoes getting ruined?
H: No, no not dress. I’d be the crazier person that night.
H: Not at all that’s what shoe are for. Be dirty.
A: Do you smoke? H: Yeah, try not to.
A: What colours or materials do you like to wear when you go out?
A: Do you wake up with bruises? H: Ooooh, dark brown, really dark brown, dark blue, black.
H: Bruises? No, I’m not hunted or possessed [laughing]. I always take care of myself when I go out. A: Do you usually go out with the same people? H: Nooo, eeh, noo naah. A: Do you prefer going out with friends? Strangers?
A: So darker colours?
H: I think they both have their own places, sometimes I like to chill with my friends, have my own crew. So- metime I like to meet new people.
H: Darker colours. E: And what materials?
E: Do you have different crews you go out with?
H: Leather, sweatpants, fur, fur.
H: Definitely.
E: And what trousers? Jeans, or?
E: What’s the difference between the two?
H: Well, like right now I don’t have a lot of money so I don’t go shopping a lot. So I just use what I have.
H: If I want to have a chill night,I’ll have my girlfriends hanging out. When I want to have a wild night I’ll hang out with my boys.
E: And what’s that?
A: Do you prefer bars or clubs? H: I got jeans, that’s like ripped! And the sweatpants.
H: UUhhh, both. In bars you can talk, clubs is mostly for having fun.
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Elena: Did you go out last night? Victor: No E: No, so where did you go today? V: Erm, few place, E: Where?
Do you think about shoes?
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For me shoes are the most important thing in my life. There is a quote my mother told me, ”You need to look at people from down to up” because if you do it from up to down it is disrespectful. So the first thing you see is the shoes.
E: So would you take a nice collectable sneaker out? V: It’s not about nice, but about them being cle- an. Because of the huge opposition from my mother towards street wear I mix that into my shoes and my past of the street wear. It is a community. E:
V: Locale, what was the place, Kiristo? Crisco? Club 21 and my place. E: So when you go out do you go out with different people or do you have the same group of friends? V: I like to have my group of friends but I can be with everybody, that’s my personality. I like to talk, I love the human being. E: So how do you dress when you go out? V: Now a day a lot of people want to dress in street wear, they think and want to dress that way but they don’t know shit about street wear. My parents, I grew up in a good family. But when I was young I always wanted to be different so I started to hang out with bad people. That’s my personality and past. I learned a lot. My family did the olympic games, they are professional athletes. I mix, street wear with haute couture.
E: So you would dress the same during day and night?
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V: Yes, for me, I don’t give a fuck.
Like a sneaker community?
V: Yeah, the sneaker community. Because today all the high brands like Gucci, Balenciaga and stuff. I bought Tripple S, but you don’t have any storytelling. E:
It’s just for selling?
V: Yeah! You buy a pair of sneakers for 700, you will be like, fuck it’s not trendy anymore. Now, for a time back, I like to put a 1000 into a pair of limited Jordans because they have the storytelling. Michael Jordan.
E: V:
So it’s like a part of history? Yes! A part of history.
E: Do you have a certain colour you would wear out? V:
Black, white, gold, grey and silver. Even if black and white are not colours.
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V: I love pink.
V: No, I also love to, I like to have fun. And especially to use dark humour. I took some random couples, and said ”Oh I know you!” They went ”No I don’t know you?” And I would go ”Yeah for sure! Last night we were together and I met your wife”.
E: If you could choose a bright colour? If I went through your wardrobe what would I find?
E: What was the reaction from the guys?
E: Pink. Do you wear it a lot?
V: ”I don’t know you, you are mistaken.” No it was so dirty. How can’t I remember that night. I like to place people in difficult situation. But you have to be careful.
V: No, but to break the palette.
E: Did you go during the day?
E: Do you have a best party memory?
V: No I don’t like day parties. It’s too showy. I don’t like the American way of showing off.
V: The best part ever, was… probably my 21st in Las Vegas with my brother in law. Expensive but.. E: Where did you go? V: The Encore. E: I’ve been there too. V: I went to Chainsmokers. It is not my kind of music, I really don’t like Vegas, but you can do a documentary on this place. It is so dirty I was shocked. E: I did not go into the pool! V: They are so confident, American people are unique.
E: Do you ever wake up with bruises? V: When I’m boxing. E: Not going out? V: No. E: Do you think you skip sleep just to go out and party? V: Yes every night. E: Do you feel like your body takes a toll?
E: But it’s still your best party memory?
V: Yes.
V: Yes! Because I did things I never could do other wise.
E: What textiles?
E: What did you do?
V: I love leather, kashmir… I don’t give a fuck about trend. I follow my inner-self. I was one of the first to wear street fashion.
V: Crazy! We were like horrible, spoke to everybody. E: Did you meet someone special that you still remember?
E: Thank you Victor! Interview finished.
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Nikita Club or after part? After party Weekday or weekend? Weekday, weekday Cocktail or beer? Shots Tech or hiphop? Techno Talk or dance? Dance Arrive early or late? Late One place or more? More Friends or strangers? Both Black or brights? Both Over dressed or under dressed? Over Early night or late night? Late
James Club or after part? After party Weekday or weekend? Weekend Cocktail or beer? Cocktail Tech or hiphop? Hiphop Talk or dance? Talk Arrive early or late? Late One place or more? More Friends or strangers? Strangers Black or brights? Black Over dressed or under dressed? Over Early night or late night? [long pause] Early night
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Harry Club or after part? After party! Weekday or weekend? Weekend Cocktail or beer? Beer Tech or hiphop? Uuuh, that’s a hard one. Both. Talk or dance? Both Arrive early or late? Arrive late One place or many? Many Friends or strangers? Uuuh, friends. Black or brights? Black or bright? Bright or black… Black! Over dressed or under dressed? Under dressed Early night or late night? Late night Outgoing or not? I’m pretty outgoing.
Anna Club or after part? Uuuhhhh, club! Weekday or weekend? Weekend Cocktail or beer? Cocktail Techo or hiphop? Hiphop Talk or dance? Uuuh, both Arrive early or late? Late One place or more? More Friends or strangers? Starting of with friends, then strangers Black or brights? Black Over dressed or under dressed? Over dressed Early night or late night? Late night Outgoing or not? Outgoing!
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Rafael Club or after party? Depends, usually more the club Weekday or weekend? Now, weekend, I like having a routine Cocktail or beer? Cocktail always Techno or hiphop? Depends because I really love them both. I guess techno because it’s crazier Talk or dance? Dance for sure Arrive early or late? Always late. I would never arrive anywhere before 2. One place or more? More! I love those nights where you go to 4 different clubs Friends or strangers? Friends for sure but strangers always welcome Black or brights? Black, total darkness, pitch black Over dressed or under dressed? Over dressed but casual and comfortable. Early night or late night? Depends on mood, usually late night Outgoing or not? I’m very out going!
Victor Club or after part? Afterparty Weekday or weekend? Both Cocktail or beer? Beer Techo or hiphop? Hiphop Talk or dance? Dancing Arrive early or late? Early One place or more? More Friends or strangers? Friends Black or brights? Black Over dressed or under dressed? Depends, always has to reflect my personality. Early night or late night? Late night… no early. Outgoing or not? Both
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Elena Club or afterparty? Afterparty, or club. Both Weekday or weekend? Weekday Cocktail or beer? Cocktail Techo or hiphop? Techno Talk or dance? Talk or dance, huum, talk. Arrive early or late Late One place or more? More Friends or strangers? Friends mixed with strangers Black or brights? Depends on day Over dressed or under dressed? Under dressed Early night or late night? Late night Outgoing or not? Outgoing!
Alessandra Club or after party? Afterparty Weekday or weekend? Weekday Cocktail or beer? Cocktail Techo or hiphop? Hiphop Talk or dance? Dance Arrive early or late? Late One place or more? More Friends or strangers? Friends Black or brights? Black Over dressed or under dressed? Over dressed Early night or late night? Huuuuh, I’d say late night Outgoing or not? No!
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Rebecca Club or after part? After party Weekday or weekend? Weekend Cocktail or beer? Cocktail Tech or hiphop? Techno Talk or dance? Talk Arrive early or late? Arrive late One place or more? More Friends or strangers? Strangers, with friends Black or brights? Black Over dressed or under dressed? Over dressed Early night or late night? Late night Outgoing or not? Outgoing
Gabriella Club or after part? Club Weekday or weekend? Weekend Cocktail or beer? Cocktail Tech or hiphop? Techno Talk or dance? Dance Arrive early or late? Arrive late One place or more? More Friends or strangers? Friends Black or brights? Black Over dressed or under dressed? Under dressed Early night or late night? Late night Outgoing or not? Outgoing
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A trend book photographed, written and designed by Alessandra DiBernardo and Elena Bozinova, for research purposes.