Antti: “Drinking whisky and singing karaoke inspire me right now. My hat is from American Apparel, boots by Rick Owens, the rest is vintage.”
I actually don’t know if these are actual Helsinki hipsters, or of this is just what everyone in Helsinki dresses like. If the latter, it’s extremely remarkable. It is a profoundly insane combination of Guatemalan peasant worship crossed with Brooklyn hipster-mongering, with a healthy mix of Quebecois clown worship and even a dash of bureaucrat chic, all of which was seeded around 1984 and has evolved in complete isolation ever since, like Darwin’s finches.
