Hobo Chic from The Bindle Bros. of Brooklyn
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| photo: Dina Litovsky for The New York Times/nytimes.com |
Holy Cow. This one really got me.
When I first saw the headline and accompanying photo above, I almost lost it. I just thought that since we have artisinal ice cubes and bespoke, luxury cupcakes that this might actually be a thing.
Alas, the joke is on me. The Bindle Brothers are really a creation of writer/director Kemp Baldwin, who cast the two performers as a spoof and started a fake company. A man who clearly has the self-awareness to recognize that he himself, a 33-year-old resident of Brooklyn who's first name is Kemp, is a hipster stereotype.
Read the entire article here complete with the description of a few New Yorkers who actually purchased one.
I think we might see one at Fashion Week.