Worlds, edited by Hien Nguyen.

Taste is what you cut.
It's also how we decide what to build.

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Own Lane

Chrome, sweat, a slogan like a training plan. Discipline is a style.

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Sharp in the Blur

One person in focus while the city does sixty. Stillness is the loudest thing in a moving frame.

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The Studio Floor

The floor is the real desk. If you can't see the thinking, nothing happened here.

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Say It Loud

One sentence, set too big. If it needs a caption, it isn't loud enough.

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Eyes First

Liner, chrome, a stare that doesn't blink first. Lips ask, eyes decide.

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The Lean

Shoulder to the wall, nowhere to be. Attitude lives in the stance.

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Borrowed Clothes

Shoulders cut for someone else. Authority is something you put on.

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The Crew

Ten people, one flash, nobody in the middle. A scene is friends who kept showing up.

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Ugly on Purpose

A duck for a shoe. Taste is knowing which rule to break, and breaking only one.

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Drawn by Hand

The napkin version. The first sketch knows what the final file forgets.

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Out of Range

Signal: none. Rest is part of the work.

00 / Archive · 2017–2021

Style, not hype

Before the moodboards, @rollinfashion (previously @grungegalss): a streetwear magazine I ran solo from 17. 460 posts. It grew up in three stages.

01Colour-coded, 2017–2018

The feed ran in colour chapters: yellow, red, pink, orange, green. It landed on Explore again and again, and people used our hashtag, #grungegalss.

02Then taste, 2018–2021

Less colour matching, more attitude. Ugly on purpose, never just expensive.

03Then columns and readers, 2018

Recurring columns in the stories, run like a magazine. Most ended with a poll, so readers voted.

Ugly Shoes column, an Instagram story from @rollinfashion
Ugly ShoesA poll on every pair
Ugly Items column, an Instagram story from @rollinfashion
Ugly Items"Who would wear these?"
Weirdness column, an Instagram story from @rollinfashion
WeirdnessWow, or not feeling it
Inside the Outfit column, an Instagram story from @rollinfashion
Inside the OutfitA reader, piece by piece
Editor's Choice column, an Instagram story from @rollinfashion
Editor's ChoiceOutfit of the day
Trending RN column, an Instagram story from @rollinfashion
Trending RNWhat's moving now
Style Not Hype column, an Instagram story from @rollinfashion
Style Not HypeStarted here as a column

Readers sent in their own

Posts tagging @rollinfashion
474
Tagged in 2018 alone
393
The last tag, 19 months after my last post
Oct 2022

It rode the 2017–2018 wave of grunge, Tumblr and streetwear, the Vlone, Gosha and Supreme era, and became a small hub inside it. Teens running grunge accounts, small vintage shops and indie streetwear labels, from Sweden to New York, tagged their own outfits hoping to be featured. My last post went up on March 20, 2021. See what readers sent in ↗

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