Category Archive: GB Laidback Editorials

There (was&) is N O T H I N G like being a Black American girl in Italy in the 90s with a lil “che cazzo!!!” bite to ya.

… Fuck an American in Paris. I used to SEND bitches to Rome after I came back.

JUST TO GET THEIR HEADS RIGHT. ” YOUR ASS needs to add Italy to your list.”

& it wasn’t Just the men. Real strong Clear hearted Italian women are the closest I’ve ever experienced to what rich black auntie vibes and heart are all about. If she’s a cunt, burn her lol BUT ~ most weren’t. GENx dude wise, their moms went through shit postwar like they were Black women and raised gorgeous, passionate, self sufficient sons in the absence of fathers- and I talk about the lil ole Italian nonnas that descended upon me when I stumbled into their city limits after Greece because my own people didn’t show me the depth of incandescent love they doused me with, along with the olive oil lol.

only time I wasn’t absently ugh over folks comparing tans with mines were those old ladies lol. They loved on me and embraced me because their hair Was like mines long ago, they baked and basked in the sun once too-

People would wrinkle their noses, all “but the racism-!” But they didn’t understand. It’s not just beauty. It’s joy. Like… first of all, I wouldn’t attract that. They’d have to fight through all the rambunctious fuck yeah roma boys who get Black Boy Joy happy when they get going. & There…was something about that American passport. You got to be American in Italy. Then ya got to be a gorgeous Black American woman, then you got to be a tourist who respected their culture enough to leaa in and learn Some fn language before arrival-

I’m just… happy.. there’s still some appreciation outright in Italy For our beauty.

I winced when he said it but…

PEOPLE do not understand that Ralph Lauren’s Club Monaco. BOH. Not an insult. Just a clarification. He comes back to Helm occasionally ( he’s an ancient of days, fashist-wise) but those design room directives for CM down to the store design and visual display were a unified effort spearheaded by RL, almost akin to The factory and diffusion lines for Jcrew( in set-up)… What that quietly means BOH is that they are gonna scrimp where they think it’s unnoticeable to stay with the finishing providers that are Going to give them the most bang for their bucks across all brands under the juggernaut umbrella.

A RL blazer as late as 2006? You might get the finishing of yore, the stitching that would make your mouth water to lovingly count.

But to even survive in the system fast fashion has infected- for a populace that is mostly numb as it is these days?-

Let’s just say if they sold 350 of those $7000.00 blazers…2 to 5 men noticed. 1 made a video. 2 had their personal tailor swap them out (1 may have requested such from the tailoring offered by the brand).& two will echo video dude’s initial heartbreak and simply weigh returning to the brand going forward. Leaving 345 numb, oblivious buyers with it in their closets, worn or not. Ambivalent or indifferent in 2026.

That’d be upwards of 2.4 million dollars.

Minus what it cost to make the blazers. Marketing etc. When you look at what is cost to put brass buttons on 350 blazers in light of how much money they’d make selling them, it’s a pittance that is only a problem to bottom lines due to fast fashion psychology back of house. It means nothing…and yet… everything, in a weird way.

So many biting Ralph Lauren in 2026 are LARPing anyway. Technically so were the old school back in the day Heads. But in the past there was like…moorings to it. Those rocking it today don’t really know Why they’re ‘supposed’ to wear it, only that.

& in a wildly, weirdly Fashist way… maybe those distinctively disinterested in all that… don’t deserve brass buttons.

I was already egregiously ecstatic this week because the Last three /grievechronic\ revisionist art monographs finally set themselves, body-wise. But this Album has wrought a joy nothing else on earth was gonna be able to strum. Talk about an Independence Day weekend. Sheesh. My heart is so fucking full right now.

Let this be the line. If you don’t get this stay the fuck outta my life. You have no Life Expectancy with me if you don’t get this and move accordingly. This is the sonic vetting my actual Mother has thrown down and there will be NO discussion.

The line will be held.

See how fast the fuck you comes if you come around here talking nonsense about this fn drop- I may hit you Lol in your fucking mouth! JAIL! Jail, I Say!! Omg! -This is why Lourdes was like “I wish a Mothafuckah WOULD!!” Maaan!

…& I LOVED Beyonce’s Renaissance…but she’s my gen pov to the sonic world Madonna wrought inside of all of us running ’round free due to her ass. & Bey’s younger than me. This is like… sonically perpendicular.