![]() draws fashion fanatics seeking ‘dope’ threads Do the hypebeasts of Fairfax like “Fairfax”? Is the block hot because of it in a good sense or bad?Ĭalifornia Supreme store in L.A. So it’s fair to ask who the show is really for - and what the real people whose lives inspire it think of their close-up. The show’s version of the tastemaking store and brand Supreme, for instance, is a vibe dictatorship called Latrine. It’s a curiously vulgar and often dark comedy for a program about seventh-graders, and it’s gently critical of many aspects of the cutthroat and image-conscious scene that it’s inhabiting. ![]() (The show exists in an alternate and blindingly colorful universe in which the locales are familiar but fictional Canter’s Deli, is replaced with “Schwimmer’s.”) ![]() Soon, he’s taken under the Instagram-savvy wing of three fellow students - film buff Truman, woke activist Derica and brand-obsessed Benny - at Fairfax Middle School, a thinly veiled version of Fairfax High. Amazon’s animated series “Fairfax,” created by Matt Hausfater, Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley, is largely set on the stretch between Melrose and Beverly and satirizes the streetwear-focused “hypebeast” scene that’s centered there - a scene that one of the show’s protagonists, Dale (voiced by Skyler Gisondo), describes as being “like Hogwarts for fashion,” as he takes it all in for the first time from the back of his family’s Subaru.Īt the start of Season 1, Dale is the “normcore as hell” newbie in town, oblivious to the alien world of merch drops where hats with huge holes cut into them go for $260. It’s about 90 degrees outside, to start, and the second season of the neighborhood’s namesake show just dropped. On a recent Friday afternoon in the Fairfax District, the block is hot.
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