Kurt Cobain, The Smiths, Walt Disney, Romanticism in Literature and Anne Frank. Twi is a revolution. Peaceful revolution. They've already come and smash the hipsters to smithereens.
Kurt Cobain, The Smiths, Walt Disney, Romanticism in Literature and Anne Frank - what do they have in common? "Twi," replies journalist Tamara Montero, author of an article published on La Voz de Galicia. “Do you think I'm out of my mind? No. Twi brings it all together … and more. Twi is a revolution. Peaceful revolution. They have already come and smash the hipsters to smithereens,”the author writes.
Twi is a social movement, no less important than hip-hop and punk, the author claims. “Twi is tenderness. Twi is friendliness, beauty and tolerance,”the article says.
American journalist Mark Spitz recently published Twee: The gentle revolution in music, books, television, fashion and film. In an interview with YES magazine, Spitz explained that the Twi movement is a reaction to a world that has become more violent. Our world needs twi, I'm sure
According to the publication, the Twi movement is rooted in the work of Walt Disney. Disney decided that in a world ravaged by world wars and crises, the best thing to do was to indulge in fantasy. Pinocchio's When You Wish Upon a Star rivals Breakfast at Tiffany's Moonriver for the Twi's anthem, and Mickey Mouse is the first and most enduring Twi idol in the United States.
Twi are looking to the future, but they are looking to the past. Spitz insists that references to literary romanticism can be found. More precisely, "any movement when artists sing about themselves and oppose friendliness, beauty and tolerance to ugliness and cruelty is a Twi movement." Twi is Anne Frank writing a diary and hippies who put flowers on gun barrels.
Spitz also says that Twi are people with an "independent spirit, adoring the 60s" of the twentieth century.
Journalists found several people in Galicia who can be called Twi. For example, the owner of a clothing store, Belén Garcia, does not sell on the Internet: “I wanted to open a shop that was typical of the old days.” The clothes she sells can be tailored to the taste and shape of the customer.
Is it possible to recognize a Twi by looks? Spitz writes, "You should have at least one cardigan in your wardrobe," and there should be at least one Belle and Sebastian album on the shelves. In cinema, the idol of Twi is Wes Anderson, in literature - Sallinger.
In general, according to Spitz, changing your hair is not enough to become a Twi. “You have to read a lot. And, as a rule, alone,”the journalist explains. Moreover, you need not only to gain knowledge, but also to create a whole way of life for yourself. As Spitz sneers, "pretend you took less drugs and had less sex than you actually did." Twi adore birds, visit their grandmothers and believe in the precepts of ecologists.
Like all fashions of recent decades, Twi originated in Brooklyn. “Brooklyn is what America makes,” just like Hollywood 50 years ago, Spitz said. It all started when artists moved to Brooklyn in search of low rent. They opened cafes and record shops, bought clothes in second-hand shops. Gradually, a whole aesthetics took shape.
