I think archive died when drake wore the bomber

Shoutout Silver League and them archive boys for judging the new young generation while also being part of the reason why the pricing is ridiculous now and partaking in the Issey sport hype 🤠

Once again Reselling kills something ☠️

the problem with archive is that eventually prices and hype even for this new gen will rise and the cycle will repeat itself again, probably making another wave of clothes way too overpriced and unattainable

Obviously, it's evolving until we have people cosplaying early 2000's anime characters as casual outfits

I remember buying Kazuyuki Kumagai, ripvanwinkle and isuma Katayama off yahoo Japan for like under $50 AUD now I see some of their stuff on archive pages hahahah

What's crazy to me is that I've been following some of those newer archive pages you used as examples in this video and I didn't even know they were considered a new generation. I thought they were just selling lesser known brands. It's really cool to know the history behind this and how the archive scene is evolving. Awesome video.

i love your storytelling. it helps me understand things that are not immediate for me - someone who considers having a good tailor in the city the ultimate holy grail.

Definitely agree, however that mark up is going to come way harder and way quicker with the newer generation, it’s already happening.

Thank you Karsten for the video covering a great topic, I was but a wee lad during the golden age and todays prices coupled with living in Sweden has made archive pretty hard to come by. That being said I am very thankful for content creators such as you who has made a previously niche topic/community more accessible for people who are not in the know.

explaining what the holy grail like its an obscure reference is so funny good stuff man

i dont think wearing kmrii and lgb is really considered “archive” -stylewise, it does have archived pieces but the style is different..a trend now but nonetheless. I do agree with how the instagram fashion pages have been using the word archive for everything

Really good information, thanks for taking the time to make this video.

Great vid karsten. Love seeing educational fashion videos like this

really well put together vid man

finally good sound🙄🙏🏻💯thank you pookie

evolving for sure n as an old gen im here for it

This shit is all fun but the prices have gotten so crazy. It’s so fucked. It’s not even fun to look at anymore. Archive blowing up on TikTok only made it so that rich kids who know nothing about this shit are willing to spend thousands on shit that would cost hundreds a few years ago. Just to wear something they don’t really understand but more just follow cause others say it’s cool

Mother of "Archived Clothes" or more specifically costume sounds is Debby Reynolds. Without her we wouldn't have some early costumes or Hollywood, but I feel like this is probably something totally different.

Bro I love how you used the little brother track “I see now ft. & produced by Ye” good execution on this video

Great Video Karsten!

Who woulda thought, resellers? Getting greedy and ruining it for everyone else? Shocker.

i feel like a lot of the guys that influenced the hype in archive moved on to vintage / lifestyle oriented stuff (fernando/davil) bc it reminiscing of how cheap and niche archive used to be, while also being able to reference and research on the garments

Loved your open minded take on new gen archive. Although it's not for me I do agree with "let the kids be kids", it's kinda trash how archive pages hoard and inflate prices but imo the prices/hoarding are also justified to a certain extent because as time goes on it'll naturally be harder to find pieces. I'm not gonna act like I have a super different take on archive, its just facts, things are becoming scarce but this is also why archive as the old gen knew will forever be archive, stamped and engrained into the world of fashion.

I think the way archive is used in fashion is fucking cringe. There are true archives within fashion that intentionally collect pieces from pertinent seasons and specific brands because the collector personally identifies with said brand. Archive outside of fashion and archive within fashion, outside of the influencer space, is generally a term that has historically been used to describe collections and collectors with specific personal intent to hoard and preserve. You don’t archive things as a business, and you are not an archiver because you like smelly vintage clothing, you do it because you love collecting. You can’t say you’re a collector if you buy a bunch of random clothes to dress up as an anime character, and so you most definitely can’t say you’re an archiver. Archive fashion has come to represent a very specific set of brands, but there are archives of Dior Homme during Hedi’s tenure at the house, Tom Ford’s Gucci, etc. And yet archive has come to represent the collections of clothes from anti-fashion brands- If fashion is art, which I believe it is, then archiving is about collecting that art form with specific intent. You’re in it for the art, and the meaning behind that art. So, saying “I’m an archiver” or that “you’re into archive fashion” is such a cringe way of saying what you actually mean- you’re into vintage clothes and you’re a glorified thrifter at best, if not a very shitty thrifter considering the markup you’re paying for cosplay items. On the flip side, silver league and archived are asses. I understand the intent behind those pages, but it’s so funny to me when these influencer fashion “archivers” try to upsell Veronique branquinho pieces, old Celine, Balenciaga, etc. or sell used bottega jackets for 3g’s. They’re just glorified sneaker resellers. Archiving is literally something real collectors dedicate their whole lives to, because more often than not, the thing they’re collecting is either or both extremely difficult to find and prohibitively expensive.

Had know idea this even existed. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Great video! Thanks!

This was very insightful. Cheers bro

When fast fashion is becoming archive , can’t wait ❤️

I like your Givenchy x Chito hoodie ......nice.

ngl pandabuy killed fashion and alot of the people buying archive are just trying to differentiate themselves from current "hypebeasts" and pandabuy warriors by buying 1:1 highly intricate pieces

12:58 Dude got the Red Dead Online season pass.

archive fashion is definitely interesting now that its in the hands of tiktokkers and resellers. I'm all for flared i6w9 and even the fur hoodies, but the fact these brands who nobody knew about years ago are all of a sudden spiking in price is just insane.

Here before this blows up on the algorithm🔥

washer piano outro go hard

I wonder if there's a psychological correlation between traumatized children who withhold poop and people who obsessedly collect and horde things. Similar to sneakerhead resellers I think more and more people just dislike and have lost respect for those types. I can see a similar situation happening with fashion archivist. It's kind of annoying trying to play with a kid who has hogged all the toys just for himself. That David brat who basically had daddy's money bought all of Raf and a good chunk of Helmut Lang. Good for them.

death note is so unrecognized today i am glad you mention it

Really well put together vid big K!

the brands that got me into archive was 14 affliction, kmrii, and the goldleather, i’m more into dressing up as anime guy then that

consider the Japanese style genre Onii-Kei Gyaruo (older brother style) as that is what the get-up of most archive outfits reference from the fur jackets to the distressed leather. What makes archive fashion archive is the brands you are wearing not the format. Notice how most of these archived brands that uses this approach are Japanese and how anime uses them

karsten do u have some tip to reach this clothes out of the us or europe, cant find anything in my country ://, excellent video btw

Best KZfaqr in the game rn

looks like frugal aesthetics editing style, even a similar vid that he’d make

this whole topic reminds me of discogs sharks with vinyl records :)

Song at 5:13 is fire in the hole by early sweatshirt, if anyone was wondering🙄

I love hearing you talk as if you're a wise old man! What do you know about a brand called Sabotage? Precursor to Stone Island

Literally rocking Raf Simons on my feet rn

from which brand and season is the show in 7:23? i need that skirt

Telepromter will make you look less to your notes and stare bit more to camera lens. So it doesnt feel you are breaking eye contact. Thank you for the video. Good day Sire.

goated background song btw

Also this archive pages sell fakes and I learned that the hard way. They also can create a false archive items since the collections are poorly documented.

ive seen people sell vintage abercrombie and fitch hoodies under the “if 6 was 9” label for insane amounts

Most of these newer outfits look corny af, but so did people that mixed raf, nine, uc etc. You can see whos got stlye and who is just throwing everything on just to look "different". I mean some individual pieces look good but this whole aesthetic, just throwing all together is stupid to me. You can do much more than this

I love your hoodie! Is it archive or can you still buy it?

Problem of archive to me comes with the fact it's mostly old clothes and clothes have a lifetime. also it's mostly second hands, so the exportation process can be messy on some country.

Crazy how we went full circle with 80s, 90s, and 2000s nu-metal. Now we wait for the mid-late 2000s emo revival (shudder).

It's a shame that what Issey Sports kicked off a snowball effect of hype and price gouging, but I'm an unapologetic fan of the line. What introduced me to the "archive aesthetic" was initially the vuja de boys, and while I personally would never wear some of ken's stuff, I appreciated a lot of the other clothes that he and his friends would wear. At the time, I was heavily into varsity jackets (before they got hella big again) because I took the school branding off my high school letterman jacket I earned back in the day and customized it to my tastes. Many of Ken and his friends featured and paid special attention to their jackets, many of which were in the realm of the varsity/work/bomber style, and I was chuffed to see people wearing old American varsity jackets when at the time in my very large American city I was the only one still wearing my old (albeit modded) letterman. Then when I saw some old IS jackets featured, something just clicked. The branding was minimal and the fit was boxy, which is what I modified my old jacket to be like. I did some more research and saw some reversible IS jackets which as a concept to me was just awesome! I've been a fan ever since. I was also a fan of the Issey Miyake Homme Plisse line, especially the pleated pants, so imagine my surprise when I found out the I in IS stood for Issey! Anyways, while I'm not a fan of what archive eventually became, I remain a fan of Issey Sports and am always searching for more info around the brand. I wonder if there is a book or catalogue around, just like how you found a Raf Simons book. So even if IS's resurgence wasn't entirely kosher, I still appreciate the brand being rediscovered and introduced to me.

Archive Fashion is so tuff i want to be ryuk from death note so bad

i started getting into fashion when i watched death note for the first time lmao

credits visual is wow

Song at the end?

Video was fire

Good video 🤝

great videoo

and now im getting into archive, because of this vid. anyone know a good yahoo japan middle man?

i think archive designer is not dead its gon come back for sure.but so many people and younger generation are into this ryuk japanese brand cs its pretty cheap and accessible unlike designer archive. but then again its not ab the hype or the trend cs the community is still there and will always be there so keep hunting bro (and for reseller i suggest coping both japanese ryuk brand and archive designer piece trust me.)

perhaps the kids are buying archival stuff from different designers, because they have different taste. rick is THE brand for basically anyone who has carti's whole discography in a playlist, which is like a third of the people you're referring to when you say kids. honestly, if anyone is getting grumpy about which brands the new gen of 'archivists' are into, they should look into the brands that the generations before them were into. also raf simmons is like 50, he's literally just a contemporary designer with a back catalogue for the 'old gen of archivists'. it's the exact same thing for kids to be into rick owens, he's a contemporary designer with a back catalogue.

Missing the old videos...

holy crap thank yuo bro. now i understand what archive fashion means. now i see.....

Don’t usually comment but just wanted to say I really appreciate your content, (also can someone give me ID on the hoodie he’s wearing)

oh a Slint cover at the end of the video

fashion is expression...keep doing you

nice hoodie 🙀

But why is a crusty 2016 acg alpine 1500???

generally in general

nice video

Anyone knows the song at 10:52 ?

i mean, I think collecting clothing from different years would be cool if the people who did that collecting maybe didnt suck so much

Just because ppl use the word archieve on their Instagram pages, does not make the displayed clothes archieve pieces. Using the word loosely and wrongly, does not change what this term actually stands for. Just keep deflating things

Damn I’m always late to hype now I gotta spend hundreds

14:10 yo is that a piano cover of washer?

rayuk 😂 great video tho bro

Thx for entertaining me, while I drink my homemade Expresso with Oatmeal

This guy doesn't get the respect he deserves

peep the earl sweatshirt ❤

the way u said ryuk pained me

Id on the plants in da back?

I regret not being into fashion when i was younger, well to be expected as i was broke af, im in my early 20's wtf am i tslking abt i have a lot left to discover

good job

There’s also been this strange trend of saying *insert archive brand* is officially dead once black teens start to get ahold of said items it’s super weird

Not even into fashion, but now I'm hoping to be cause of these videos

anyone got a suggestions on how to get into this sort of thing without being called a cornball or shit like that

0:42 No one is trying to redefine Archive fashion, fashion trends come and they go and some people just gravitate to one style and stick with it. I believe that archive fashion has been becoming more and more popular and that's okay. People don't have to wear their clothes a certain way because of how someone said you are " suppose" to style this way. You are also conflating Archive fashion with grailed pieces.

"It was very formative as a young adult..." Dude looks like he's 17 :D

This is why older than raf

Do you know any good archive pages where i could find pieces ? I want to get more into archive fashion

clothes are fun

gimme dat chito hoodie. now.

Oh I’m in the vid I’m the 2nd dreadhead also I’m not a new gen nice vid tho but I’ve been on this I jus have fun at the end of the day it’s materialistic it won’t matter in the next 8-10 yrs all luv

do ah vid on enfants riches deprimes