Lukas Grout

Anonymous asked: Can you explain your aesthetic because i really do not understand your appreciation of shaved brows and trainers. Very little has aesthetic value unto itself and certainly, lots of what you seem to like is more entrenched in cultural signifies than intrinsic beauty but... but... dude, the culture that what you like signifies blows. those guys are annoying as fuck

I think what people find attractive and culturally important changes drastically where ever they are from.

Something that has been going on for quite a while in the UK at the moment is a mockery of the chav movement. Gay lads with shaved heads and tracksuits bottoms I think subconsciously makes a statement about the society that is rejecting them. 

Any part of culture eventually filters down into art and indeed fashion. A lot of what people thought of bad taste in the 90’s and the early 2000’s is now at the height of vogue. Wigs and hair that has been obviously coloured - luxury brands now producing not only high end sports goods but using rubber, man made fabrics and skinny boys with tattoos being accepted with open arms by the fashion world.

I don’t this comes from innovation, it comes from cultural significants - and the fact a model with a shaved head and an arm of tattoos can walk for Dries wearing a £1300 wool coat I think proves that its not so much about ‘beauty’ any more as I think you put it, but cultural relevance.   

Everything aside - I think you would be lying if you told me you had never found someone attractive and wanted to shoot yourself in the face when they spoke. Just because I and a lot of other gay men make a mockery of skin head homophobic morons that used to bully us at school - does’t mean we want to have an in-depth conversation about what Raf Simmons is going to do next. Its a fantasy. 

The joke is the mockery - that I’m wearing my £20 adidas bottoms with a Burberry Prorsum coat. The joke aside - I grew up looking like this. Wearing reebok classics, having a french crop hair cut was how me and my friends all looked, so it does have an element of nostalgia about it.  

I don’t want to look like I just walked out of New York fashion week with floppy hair and gym bag. I want to look British.