So Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a feature where they analyse the clothes of various people in business.
However in all honesty, I think the real criteria for appearing in the section is your ability to spout a load of pretentious bollocks that makes you look more like a dick than a fashionista.
I’ve written about this before however I recently saw a guy whose mutterings just screwed with my brain.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls … let me introduce you Pierce Thompson, a 25 year old brand strategist in NYC.
I know I don’t know Pierce.
I know this is massively immature of me to call him out like this.
I know I am the last person on the planet who should talk about fashion but …
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
He’s 25 for fucks sake.
TWENTY FIVE … why the hell is he sounding like a pretentious 40 year old?
Seriously, his comment about ‘what inspired him today’ could be a line from ‘The Office’.
And don’t get me started about the whole ‘high pant leg’ thing.
Look, I know this is childish. I know his comments could well have been played with by the magazine editors and I genuinely do think it’s cool to have a massive passion … but I’d love to ask him, as a brand strategist, what he thinks this interview has done for his brand.
Hey, maybe – probably – I’m totally wrong.
I’m a 44 year old man, who has the dress sense of a 13 year old and has never sounded professional in my life … however I hope when my son is 25, he is living, experiencing and exploring life rather than sounding, acting and living the lifestyle of a 40 year old middle manager at a multinational corporation.
Look, I know times are different to when I was Pierce’s age.
I know professionalism is something to be respected and embraced rather than rejected and ridiculed.
And I know that to stand any chance of earning a decent salary at some point in your life, you have to start your career early and try to stick with a particular industry.
But still, he’s 25 … why isn’t he doing stuff that he’ll regret when he’s older?
Or maybe he is. Ha.
Of course, now I have gone on that little tirade, it means my son will most definitely follow Pierce’s lead just to piss me off.
But hey, there’s worse kinds of rebellion, just ask my parents.
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it all balances out campbell, youre 40 something and dress like a fucking 12 year old.
girl.
Comment by andy@cynic April 22, 2015 @ 6:32 amHe already admitted that in the post.
Comment by DH April 22, 2015 @ 6:37 amyou think i read his shit all the way through. are you fucking deranged? mine was funnier anyway.
Comment by andy@cynic April 22, 2015 @ 6:43 ameverything fucking wrong with adland in that fucking editorial. well fucking done pierce thompson. on the positive, youre not a planner, dont write a blog and dont wear fucking birkenstocks.
Comment by andy@cynic April 22, 2015 @ 6:35 am#silverlinings
Comment by DH April 22, 2015 @ 6:37 amOh dear.
Comment by George April 22, 2015 @ 6:36 amIs that aimed at me or him?
Comment by Rob April 22, 2015 @ 7:52 amMy old room mate knows this guy. Not joking. Guess who I’m going to message to get them to message Mr Fashion of adland.
Comment by DH April 22, 2015 @ 6:39 amyou fucking brilliant bastard.
Comment by andy@cynic April 22, 2015 @ 6:44 ambut why the fuck are you friends with friends of 25 year old media twats? sick bastard.
Comment by andy@cynic April 22, 2015 @ 6:45 amBecause I don’t have enough money to be picky or anti-social.
Comment by DH April 22, 2015 @ 6:52 amthank fuck im not that poor.
Comment by andy@cynic April 22, 2015 @ 7:13 amCan I use the excuse “… he started it?” Damn.
Comment by Rob April 22, 2015 @ 7:52 amDutch masters? In a museum in Amsterdam? Who’d have thought it?
Comment by John April 22, 2015 @ 6:51 amand how pretentious to bring in his artistic sensibility as to colo: not just, “hey, I liked that color,”, but lets crank in the fact that a) he actually went to Amsterdam, b) he does museums, and c) he knows the difference between the cigar and the painting…
Comment by judyt54 April 22, 2015 @ 7:50 pmThe comment about his dress sense is personal and mean.
Comment by Pete April 22, 2015 @ 6:51 amThe comment about letting life pass him by is personal and true.
The good news is the way you live your life proves there is still chance for him when he is older. That it meant as a compliment to you by the way.
You mean the compliment after the [rightful] insult of me?
Comment by Rob April 22, 2015 @ 7:53 amYes.
Comment by Pete April 22, 2015 @ 9:06 amWhat I want to know is why is this the only magazine that Campbell hasn’t featured in? Anyone know anyone at Bloomberg? We need to read about the people he works with to get his tailoring suggestions; the comics that inspire it and how birkies have no laces yet are far from clean on the foot.
Comment by John April 22, 2015 @ 6:55 amcampbell features in bloomberg.
Comment by andy@cynic April 22, 2015 @ 7:16 ammagazine folds shortly after.
birkenstocks share price tanks.
wieden sue for loss of reputation.
it would be a fucking brilliant idea except campbell would still find some way to come out of it smelling of fucking roses. ive said it a fucking ton of times, campbell made a pact with the devil, its the only fucking explanation.
Granted I am old school when it comes to dressing, and the old school would take one look at this young person preening and looking smug (and why is he portrayed as standing on a desk???) and they would say, “ugly shirt, too many patterns, too many excuses why this works (we only have his word for it) and its a singularly unattractive look. The only thing he lacks–and maybe those are underneath the jacket–is suspenders…
and yeah, the pants. Lengthen the damn pants. Dont give them a name.
Do men seriously DO this kind of ‘build my wardrobe around one piece” thing?
Comment by judyt54 April 22, 2015 @ 7:22 amno. not real fucking me.
Comment by andy@cynic April 22, 2015 @ 7:25 amHello Judy, nice to have you back. I – obviously – don’t dress around one piece [except maybe Birkies] but I do know men who do. And they all look bloody great which is very depressing. Or should I say humiliating.
Comment by Rob April 22, 2015 @ 7:54 amAre you talking about Wayne?
Comment by DH April 22, 2015 @ 8:29 amlol i never left, Rob. Every word, i swear. And its good to see YOU back being your old lovable self, lol
But ill bet they dont dress like nana’s parlor suite either =)
Comment by judyt54 April 22, 2015 @ 9:17 amid say the guy is trying too hard
wayne made freddie fucking mercury look like a bricklayer.
Comment by andy@cynic April 22, 2015 @ 10:16 amyou also have to consider that anyone who looks as if he was put together by his tailor probably was: most times any guy who dresses himself thinks black and red plaid matches black and red stripes (“well the colors are the same”)– not unlike this fella. Or my mother.
Im also wary of anyone who looks that good on demand. It says the package might be more impressive than whats inside it…
Comment by judyt54 April 22, 2015 @ 11:18 pmThe shoes, by the way, are to die for. I would wear those shoes.
Comment by judyt54 April 22, 2015 @ 7:22 ami meant “men”, not “me”. but i am the fucking definition of real man.
Comment by andy@cynic April 22, 2015 @ 7:26 amthats for my comment above. why the fuck is this blog fucking with me? its asking for a bruising and as a real fucking man, i will give it. techshitwank.
Comment by andy@cynic April 22, 2015 @ 7:28 amReal men don’t waste their time knowing how to use tech. Explains why Baz, George and Pete work at Apoogle.
Comment by Billy Whizz April 22, 2015 @ 7:38 amBrilliant.
Comment by Rob April 22, 2015 @ 7:54 amI’m not sure this guy sounds professional or old so much as he does–how to phrase this politely?–wanky.
Comment by Tim[othy] Collins (@rummychap) April 22, 2015 @ 3:34 pmPierce works in a media agency
Comment by northern April 22, 2015 @ 5:54 pmEnough said
What happened to being young and foolish?
Comment by Lee Hill April 22, 2015 @ 9:39 pmI was just about to fire that question to him, about the French Locker, but thank god he’s already answered it. He’s always getting asked it, apparently.
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