Meme-Inspired Clothing Is Annoying As Hell

Meme-Inspired Clothing Is Annoying As Hell

Do you wish your clothing looked like Tumblr diarrhoea’d on a web-cached version of eBay from 1995? Do you get your fashion inspiration by flipping through a vintage Delia*s catalogue on a tremendous amount of ketamine? We’ve got the hot new look for you!

New York Magazine profiled young entrepreneurs running Shop Jeen, an online retailer that sells internet-themed clothes, and I’m not sure if it’s meant as a glowing profile or if it’s expressly designed to disturb people.

Run by 23-year-old CEO Erin Yogasundram, whose second-in-command is her 26-year-old best friend/creative director Amelia Muqbel, Shop Jeen is like a nascent, next-generation version of Nasty Gal — independently created by a young woman, focused on selling “edgy” looks online, initially bare-bones operation.

Meme-Inspired Clothing Is Annoying As Hell

I imagine Shop Jeen is goldmine for investigative reporters trying to figure out how to go undercover at an all-ages Diplo show.

Meme-Inspired Clothing Is Annoying As Hell

It’s badass that two women in their early 20s are establishing a successful retail business, even if it’s a retail business selling horrible scene-kid flotsam. That said, I don’t know if it was deliberate or not, but the interview reads like a demented Bret Easton Ellis story about two young, beautiful, meme-lovin’ sociopaths. To wit:

“Is there anything else we should know about you?” Erin asks flatly.
 
“I eat Chipotle, like, every day.”
 
Erin and Amelia nod approvingly.

Or:

“I think that the angle for the story is how I’m this emotional 23-year-old girl, yet I have to combat these crazy 50-year-old-CEO work problems,” Erin tells me while lighting up an American Spirit. She takes a puff and exhales dramatically out of one side of her mouth, kind of like a child pretending to smoke a breadstick. “I just started smoking a few weeks ago,” she says. “It’s been stressful.”

You should read the entire feature on these SELF-PROCLAIMED “hype-beast hipsters” at New York Mag, especially if you want to feel like Abe Simpson.

And you should also please, please, please take a photo and send it to me immediately if you see this hot number in the wild:

Meme-Inspired Clothing Is Annoying As Hell

[NYMag]


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