I can wear art
Last night, Collezione launched its new C2 clothing line with a nationalist pop art exhibit. I had never heard of Collezione, but I liked the "C2" name because it made me think about sickeningly sweet tea. Mmm.
As usual, I couldn't understand the art, but at least I took pictures. Oh wait, I didn't. Lizz did all the picture-taking because she had the better camera.
I like this one because it reminds me of the classic "Do you see two faces or a vase?" optical illusion. Plus skulls are cool.
But enough about the art. Let's take a look at the clothes.
Most of them are nice normal shirts and dresses but with colorful Philippine maps randomly splattered on them. Filipinos would of course recognize the shape (except for those who failed their grade school geography classes). Foreigners would probably think that it's just some kind of stain though. My favorites are the ones with bright red map prints. It would be so much fun to wear one of those and run down the street screaming "Help! I've been shot!"
The orange dummy in the picture was wearing a cool shirt with "PILIPINAS" spelled backwards. I think it proves that even dyslexic people can be patriots. Yay!
Now this one I really like. It has dozens of little black Philippine maps printed on it, but from afar, the maps look like a swarm of insects. It would be so much fun to wear one of those and run down the street screaming "Help! Get these bugs off me!"
Oops, did I just rehash the same lame joke? Sorry. I'm too old to run down the street screaming anyway--no, not because I'm becoming more mentally mature, but because at my age, any form of physical activity gets me tired rather quickly.
Anyway, I showed some of the pictures to Philos, and he said that he would love to wear those shirts because he's such a nationalistic nut. I'm not sure I share his enthusiasm, but what do I know? I have zero fashion sense.
The event did make me reflect a bit about the concept of nationalism. If I don't get lazy, I'll try to tackle that topic in my next entry.
The exhibit will be open to the public until June 14, 2008, at the CAV Restaurant in Bonifacio High Street, Taguig. For more information about Collezione C2, call 671-2770 or email info@collezione-c2.com.
the dress looks good
fil-ams will go nuts for that.
Really?
Then you should buy one and wear it around :-P
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So you want one huh
I wonder if they ship overseas.
Uh...
No, actually, no :-)
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Pffft
I could tell that paint stain was Philippines after looking at it for about two seconds :-P
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I could tell
after looking at it for one second. I win! :-P
Hello? This is the
Hello? This is the Department of Patriotism & Sacrilege of National Emblems calling. We will be at your doorstep in 2 minutes to pick you up, throw you in jail and feed you to the dogs after 5 days for perpetuating such evil in the online space. You deserve to die, ingrate Filipino.
Collezione deserves a spanking too, for diluting the Philippine Map brand. There must be a brand somewhere in there, right? I mean, if Carney can recognize it, then there has to be.
I'm actually not that bad
at geography, that's all :-) And we had a lot of recognize-the-country-by-its-shape exercises during geography classes :-)
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Wow!
So they teach the Philippines to you huh? Here, I can almost swear that I've never heard Lithuania mentioned a single time during my entire career as a student, much less Kaunas.
Too bad you have nothing to do with the Lusitania, because that I heard of... the ship the Americans sunk to join the war right? :p
Now you're talking about ships?
Way to take the thread off-topic, buddy :-P
Hold your horses
Truly sacrilegious remarks about national emblems are coming tomorrow >:)
Grrrr
And I missed this event again! darn!
Come home!
The big city calls.
You know...
I had a 3-paragraph comment typed out in response to the fact that you liked the skull painting, but I decided against submitting it because the PR people might be reading the comments.
It was a good 3 paragraphs, though-- filled with hate and snark regarding improper use of technique. I was actually sweating a little after writing it.
Arg.
Post it! Post it!
We don't care about the PR people right JC? And they might just learn from it. Go! Go! Go!
Because here at Chicken Mafia, we believe that anything that made you sweat while writing it deserves to be read!
NB I think that alien skull looks hideous.
It's not even the PR people's fault
They didn't create the products.
An ounce of snark is better
An ounce of snark is better than a pound of PR. A pound of cotton and a pound of nails weigh the same, though.
PR stuff
don't go over well on this site huh. I'm so not getting invited to the next event :-(
Hahaha
Don't waste it. Email it to me. Or just post it. The Chicken Mafia is all about snark.
We don't have a lot of
We don't have a lot of readers as well. You can say whatever you want.
Hmm
Maybe us saying whatever we want is why we don't have any readers :-D
Man, you guys must be really
Man, you guys must be really young. Collezione used to be one of the few brands that kids in the early '90s used as status symbols. Along with Giordano and, I think, Wrangler. Not indicative of high status as such, just status.
Unlike the flag,though, I don't think the map actually serves as some sort of brand. I mean, we didn't design it or anything. Tectonic plates and volcanic activity did. By the grace of God.
I am loving your blog more and more by the day. ^_^
Not young
Just ignorant. Although for the record, I still have Collezione shirts, none of which have the Philippine Map (or at least what looks like it) though.
Congratulations JC, one down, 99,999,999 to go!
Yay!
We're really young!
Are you saying that the designers stole the map design? God should sue.
This is actually a good
This is actually a good strategy. Overseas Filipinos are suckers for anything Philippine related. That's why you see designers who came up with a Philippine-themed watch (by ODM by Tim Yap) and a Philippine-themed track jacket (by Adidas).
These designs by Collezione sucks by comparison IMO. They even look like they were passed under a squeegee only once (i.e. only 1 color). With my limited background in manual shirt printing, I know for a fact that a 4-colored printed shirt takes a lot of skills and would be reasonably expensive.
This looks like a lame and late attempt to jump in on the bandwagon.
Oh
I had no idea that you work in one of those sweatshops that make T-shirts :-P
Not me
but my brother does
Do you see 2 faces or a vase?
For this one, i see 2 skeletons and an outline of M. Bison.
Hehe
Very good.
i'm sure you won't
get lost if you wear these collezione collections. you almost look like a walking Philippine map :)
Hmm, yeah
I could just look down and know exactly where I am. Okay, maybe not exactly, but at least I'd know that I'm still on the right island, and that would be somewhat comforting.
Except you know that
Chickens can't fly any substantial distance or swim for that matter, and are thus in no danger of finding themselves in the wrong island.
Um
Yay?
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