Hey what do Google, cheese, authentic consumer electronics, and now “fixed gear bicycles” have in common? They are all hard to come by in China.
Poor Nie Zheng (pictured) had to wait his entire life to complete his Mission hipster look:
‘It’s been a dream since I was a kid to get a bicycle like this,’ the 40-year-old fashion photographer told me. ‘But no one sold them here.’ It took nearly nine months, he said, to get a track bike he wanted sent from England in 2007.
Someone throw a benefit show for these guys, already.
(via Slate)
Previously:
[...] vigilant for hipsters in our world, Mission Missionistas yesterday spotted a Chinese hipster wannabe north of 40. By nightfall, the Americans had taken [...]
[...] vigilant for hipsters in our world, Mission Missionistas yesterday spotted a Chinese hipster wannabe north of 40. By nightfall, the Americans had taken back [...]
[...] Mission Missionistas, quienes siempre mantienen los ojos abiertos en busca de hipsters en nuestro mundo, identificaron [...]
That guy is clearly Mulato!