n 1965, Coco Chanel said, “Mode passes, style remains,” and while the iconic fashion house founder probably didn’t have RGB standing desks or Razer Boomslangs in mind as she said it, it’s just as pertinent to our own strange little corner of cultural expression as it is to high fashion. Over the last decade we’ve seen a very distinctive visual theme emerge from PC hardware, one drenched in multicolored lighting, scribbled with tribal designs like a lower league football player’s arms, and built from black plastic into severe, angular shapes. The gamer aesthetic had us all in its thrall throughout
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Sep 06, 2022
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