Friday, June 18, 2010
I like fashion
I like it a lot, but every once in a while I wonder how much of it is just vanity. I've been around a lot "fashionable" kids lately. The kind that do possess some skill in dressing themselves, but lack originality, and do it purely for the attention. For a long time I didn't know people like this existed. Until I started high school I thought I was the only person on earth who was actually hungry to set themselves apart. I guess I just feel betrayed. It wouldn't bother me as much if the industry accepting these people as fashionable made me angry and anxious to show them up. However it hasn't. The fact is, as of now I just feel defeated. I feel like everything I am, or ever will be interested in, will be stolen by the masses, ripped up, devoured, regurgitated, labeled, mass produced and re-interpreted. I wish I had the drive to re-invent fashion.
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:( so honestly written. a lot of it is vanity. so much of the fashion industry is, unfortunately, based on attention - who you know, your network of contacts, social status, etc. it's so much about climbing those ropes/that ladder and sometimes it's just upsetting and defeating as you noted... even interning at vogue i really felt that some of the interns weren't there for the right reasons. i guess fashion to me is something about expressing myself, appreciating the art and aesthetics behind fashion, and somehow merging those two in a happy duo...
ReplyDeleteanyway. stay true to your own sense of aesthetics is my best advice and take comfort in the fact that you probably appreciate fashion in your own way, and that you at least have your own vision. :)
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