There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
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Colour is not the issue in America; class is.
Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.
Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.
So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience.
American Apparel does great colourful basics that you can customise.
In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
Coca-Cola is an American icon.
I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.
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