Normcore
ノームコア / 2013– / Aesthetic / Anti-style
The stance of stepping out of the differentiation game, choosing a plainness that can connect with anyone — conceptualized by K-HOLE, inverting fashion discourse.
Plain, standard clothes / No logos / Deliberate ordinariness / Freedom from style
Reference: K-HOLE — Youth Mode: A Report on Freedom（Images at the source page）
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and exemplary cases · Extracting principles that transfer beyond dress
- Type
- Observe the letters and signs of the era and community referred to
- Composition
- Translate silhouette and proportion into composition
- Material
- Verify the material conditions: cloth, tailoring, the wearer's body
- Caution
- Not a name for drab clothes. Read the original text as a critique of the differentiation game.
- Further study
- K-HOLE, Youth Mode, 2013 / the misreading and spread of 'Acting Basic' / the Steve Jobs uniform argument