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LUKE C.

EXPRESSION   —   FASHION
INTERVIEWED AND DIGITIZED BY ME



Cole:
How much did your fit cost and where'd you get your stuff, start from the bottom up.

Luke:
Um, okay. Fit cost. Yeah. Um, okay. White cactus, plant fleet market, air forces.

It's a hard color way to find. And so they're like, they're 800 bucks, um, for that black on white trim. Um, so that was a lot but needed 'em. Um, gray Carhart work in progress pants. Um, 180, um, got a pair in London and a different color and I love 'em. So I had to get the gray one. Um, this blue branded shirt is from a sample sale store place popup in New York.

Um, I found it through a coworker and they have a site with a bunch of discounted stuff, so Got it there, I think 50 bucks. Um, and then Beanie is from Sundays. Um, my friend is the social media for them. Uh, they're based outta London and they're like, hand, what's the hand? Hand knit? Hand knit beanies. Cool.

Cole:
Okay. When do you feel like you found your personal style? I already know the answer, but I wanna see what you say?

Luke:
I don't know the answer.

Cole:
Um, why don't you say what you think and then I'll say what I know.

Luke:
I feel like I've changed it every six months for the last three years.

Um, I don't know. I think part of it was like a little bit copying. Um, our friend, my friend Jesse. , um, Smith. Mm-hmm. . I just feel like he, I don't know. I don't know what my style is. I don't, I You tell me again, lemme tell you.

Cole:
I feel like this.

Okay, it's not like you found your, your like, finished style at this point, but you started caring about shoes when you got into 97s.

Luke:
Oh yeah, in high school. That's true.

Cole:
That was like your first thing.

Luke:
Yeah. I never cared about shoes. Saw, uh, silver bullets and triple white 97s, which was so not my style at the time, but I liked them for some reason.

Yeah. And I paid $190 for a pair of triple whites and that was so much money. And then that got me into, in high school, liking off-white and I snuck away. Um, without telling my mom and use like all $800 I had in high school when I was a junior on a pair of off-White Air Force ones. Mm-hmm. . Um, and my mom was pissed.

I got grounded for it and then that's kind of where it started. Um, but that was the first big cop.

Cole:
What do you feel like is your least favorite fashion trend? This could be a men or women.

Luke:
Oh. Least favorite fashion trend. Um, um, , man, there's a few, but I haven't been on TikTok for like a month until I'm kind of forgetting some of the trends, cuz that's where you see all the crazy trends. Um, I think my least favorite trend right now is, um,

oh man, this is, this is a hot, this is a hot take. I hate the whole fitted hat thing. Yeah. I don't like the whole fitted of things I can respect just like wearing a hat. Cause you wanna wear a hat, but the whole, like all these kids wearing sports teams, they don't care about. Yeah. That's my least favorite trend.

Respectfully.

Cole:
Um, tell me about your, what your favorite hat from high school. Your, uh, what was it?

Luke:
Uh, it was a black Chicago Black Hawks hat. I had longer hair at the time and I actually hated how it looked, but I didn't really like how my hair looked short either. So I decided I was just gonna wear a hat every single day of my life.

Um, so at a garage sale or yard sale, um, in our neighborhood in California, I found a Black Hawks hat. I thought the logo was cool, so I bought it, and as all my friends know, I've wore that every single day for probably three years. Cool. I've never been a Blackhawk fan ever.

Cole:
That's so funny, I love that.

Luke:
Um, I don't even know where that is.

Cole:
What is your favorite piece, your favorite individual piece? If you had to pick one, if all of your clothes burned, what would you be like the saddest about losing?

Luke:
Can it be shoes? Yeah, whatever. Yeah. My number one that I would be saddest to lose, and this is funny cuz I just talked about my expensive white pair of cactus, plant flea markets.

But my favorite thing I own shoes, clothes, anything, is my black cactus plant, flea market, air forces. And it's just because I just feel like no one, especially in Utah, really wears Black Air Forces at all. Mm-hmm. and I got those, I put white laces in and they're just like my go-to. They match every outfit and no one really has 'em.

So that's my number one favorite pair. I always tell, um, my wife Isabel, um, that when those get beat down to the point where I can't wear 'em anymore, I'll be buying another pair and I'll always have those my whole entire life.

Cole:
Cool. Thanks Luke.