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Fashion designer Kris Van Assche showed his new collection in Paris the other day and you would never ever guess what his inspiration was. His collection was loosely (very loosely) inspired by gorgeous cholita beauties! The hell?! Kris included teardrop tattoos, tank tops and boxer shorts which he said was influenced by cholitas. I'm sorry, but I don't even get the slightest whiff of a Sharpie in any of these pictures.
Homeboy and I need to take a trip down to Echo Park, CA, so that we can hang with my cousins and he can see what real cholita glamour is. Where's the white wife beater, the hickeys on the cheek and neck, the oversized Dickeys and the nameplate necklace? I see none of that! He could have at least added a "Smile Now, Cry Later" t-shirt. Something! The eyebrows aren't even right. I give him a couple of dildo slaps for trying, but it's not quite there.
Kris, please watch this clip from one of the greatest movies ever made "Mi Vida Loca" and then try again.
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ohhh i luv echo park!!! me and my friends took a special trip to echo park on our drive to look at colleges in LA like ten years ago. the lake is gorgeous as long as u can stand the piss smell from the street corner, hahaa! but echo park will always hold a special place in my heart, after watching Mi Vida Loca in high school! P.S. it is truly one of the best movies in history! Whisper is my favorite! and don't 4get sad girl! ill have to e-mail u tha pics of me and my friends givin' the camera chola looks while hangin' out in echo park! thanks biotch!
Submitted by MyTwoCents on September 29, 2008 - 9:12pm.
Echo Beach
Far away in time
Echo Beach
Far away in time
Looks like we're the only ones on Echo Beach...I like deserted beaches.
Do they even sell Dickies in France?
Maybe Paris Cholas are higher class chicks. All that french fashion must have rubbed off on them. Hell their hoodrats probably only wear designer. Probably D&G, only ghetto chicks and the tween set could love some of the shit they come out with. One year didn't they have gold Mr. T necklaces and door knockers?
Although that sh-t looks more Helmut Lang circa the 90's.
Submitted by Sandbitch on September 29, 2008 - 3:55pm.
Echo Beach
Far away in time
Echo Beach
Far away in time
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I POOP RAINBOWS
The long sleeve and shorts combination is definitely chola inspired. Ooh I know who i'm dressing up as for Halloween now!
It's good stuff.I could see some androgynous fashionista...say a Gwen Stefani or someone like that blowing this look up.Good luck.
Submitted by Sandbitch on September 29, 2008 - 3:55pm.
LOL - Is Echo Park near Echo Beach?
- Echo Park is an area between Silverlake and Dodger Stadium, just a few miles from downtown LA. Its actually a good location since its close to a lot of cool areas, but it can be pretty scary in some parts. Best to visit all the glamour during the day.
Love the clothes!I wanna buy some.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Kris Van Asscheeks!
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I still love Mi Vida Loca. All of my friends laugh when I make them watch it, but it's a classic in my eyes. I guess it is the 5% mexican in me.
Submitted by Agie on September 29, 2008 - 3:50pm.
MK, I can't tell you how happy you made me today by giving Echo Park a shout out. I spent the first 3 years of my life there until my parents decided to move because of the constant chola battles in the street in front of our house. They just didn't appreciate chola beauty I guess.
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LOL - Is Echo Park near Echo Beach?
MK, I can't tell you how happy you made me today by giving Echo Park a shout out. I spent the first 3 years of my life there until my parents decided to move because of the constant chola battles in the street in front of our house. They just didn't appreciate chola beauty I guess.
Submitted by rollingstoner on September 29, 2008 - 3:14pm.
For all intensive purposes, that was funny.
whoever wrote this article is either arrogant as fuck in whatever intelligence he/she thinks they have, or they're just plain fucking dumb.
let me put this simply and see if you comprehend.
Kris Van Assche's collection was INSPIRED BY cholitas.
not based on, not created after, not modeled after, but INSPIRED.
now let's see what INSPIRED means..
1 fill (someone) with the urge or ability to do or feel something, esp. to do something creative : [ trans. ] his passion for romantic literature inspired Tom to begin writing.
If Van Assche MODELED his/her collection after cholitas, it wouldn't be very fucking creative, now would it.
go back to journalism school.
My Vida Loca... oh my god.. we fucking loved that movie.. Sad Girl and Whisper with the blonde hair!
Good times, good chola times...
RIP Ernesto!
Eveyone needs to watch "Lean Like a Chola"
"Schulz-crest, out"
I like how Style.com feels the need to provide a definition of chola for their readers:
"This season, for instance, he (Van Assche) was drawn to the chola, the Mexican gangbanger's moll."
I look more like a cholita than they do, and I have red hair, fair skin, freckles and actual eyebrows!
Did they ever stop to think that these rags would've looked better on, say, better looking people? Maybe it would've sold the audience if there were cholas in Ethiopia...
I'm faux sane. Does that count for something?
"Submitted by KD on September 29, 2008 - 12:29pm.
Papa Smurf- why is Carlos Mencia a faux Mexican? My BF loves him."
He's not Mexican. In fact, he doesn't have Mexican blood in his body at all...it's a ploy to play off a certain demographic. And his first name is Ned.
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Carlos Mencia is a faux Mexican!
Kris Van Asshole needs the auf Wiedersehen
MK I'm sure his inspiration was more along the lines of REAL spanish woman instead of the Aztec people who merely speak spanish due to colonization. aka Mexicans.
So MK has Cholita cousins, is he part mexican or something??? the whole "cholo" shit needs to die already!
(this coming from a Mexican)
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And WHY didn't they ask us to model these clothes? Who would be more perfect to model cholita clothes than cholas?
Inspired by cholas my ass! Where are the RIP Baby Chuey t-shirts and the glint of razor blade in their hair?
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Root, root root for the Cubbies!
Mi Vida Loca eezz ah mase ing gue
Now THAT what's I'm talking about!
Che linda cholitas!!!
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Mi Vida Loca, omg I love it !
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"We have your 401K. If you want to see it again give us $7 million in unmarked bills"
That clip was amazing. I need to netflix that shit NOW!
Submitted by LoLo on September 29, 2008 - 11:01am.
_Submitted by KD on September 29, 2008 - 12:29pm
LOL, I just looked him up on NNDB, and his real name is Ned Arnel Holness Mencia. Ned! He was actually born in Honduras. I didn't think he claimed to be Mexican. NED! Too funny!
Submitted by missy on September 29, 2008 - 12:31pm.
All of the fashion shit mk posted makes me think of The Emperor's New Clothes.
These people know nothing about basic design and are all about gimmick. Hate that shit!
Plus who are the backers for a line like this?
How would an umbrella co justify the funds for a look that will be red lined and sold off at basment sales just to attempt to cover the bottom line?
Lots of these people are going down and or will be eliminated in the coming quarters.
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topanga - hahaha @ tattoo artist named "tiny"
we dont have a lot of cholas out here. a few, but our version of cholas are really just irish american white trash.. much less fun...
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this reminds me of what some model has been quoted as saying a few times, that she thinks "poor people have the best fashion sense"
I just dont get the fashion lines that are based more on some fictional lifestyle instead of being based on aesthetics and garment construction.
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What cholas has Kris been hangin' out with. All he needed to do was to get his fashion team to go down to the local Walgreens...buy out there whole 99 cent to a dollar make-up bins..then hit up Walmart and buy a bunch of packs of 10 for 5$ wife beater sets. Hire a tatoo artists named "Tiny" and voila..cholas!
*****"Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die. Don't have sex in the missionary position, don't have sex standing up, just don't do it, OK, promise? OK, now everybody take some rubbers."*****
_Submitted by KD on September 29, 2008 - 12:29pm.
Papa Smurf- why is Carlos Mencia a faux Mexican? My BF loves him.
Because he was born in Cuba i think.
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Were any of them holding babies?
Chola's roll like that.
...I am aka BRADIFUL BITCH, I SWEAR!!!...
Ahhhh, Mi Vida Loca! A true classic! Reminds me of growing up in L.A....Thanks, MK!
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"Paris is fucking lame. She's more offensive to me than anything. She's a total, raging, disgusting, rich, lazy party slut. I pray that my daughter will not turn out like her." - Dave Grohl
Papa Smurf- why is Carlos Mencia a faux Mexican? My BF loves him.
Skinny white girls with clear skin and no bras? A little eyebrow pencil does not a chola make.
Too clean. There needs to be a knife fight on the cat walk.
BRUNO - SAVE US!
~~ Heeere Kitty Kitty. Tell us your secret of the honking big icon if you please.
The eyebrows, in the first thumbnail, scare me - that girl needs a razor and a sharpie asap.
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wtf is this? Where is the sharpie? these eyebrows are not even close to chola eyebrows! dissapointing caca!
Oh man, I remember being shown "Mi Vida Loca" as a kid.
I think it's required in the Mexican handbook to see it at least once.
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Carlos Mencia is a faux Mexican!
I can't picture true cholas wearing that stuff. It's too classy.
Submitted by LoLo on September 29, 2008 - 11:49am.
more fucking stupid shit
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Now don't beat around the bush, get right to the point. :P
I don't think we have Cholas in London, are we missing out?
more fucking stupid shit
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wtf is this shit? D:
doom and gloom fashion.