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Παρασκευή 1 Μαΐου 2009

So What Do you think about Fashion?

It always comes as a big surprise to me seeing how much difference there is between mine and other people’s opinion on fashion. The two main points I usually come across are the following. In one case they have acquired a slavish attitude towards fashion, worshiping unreasonably high-priced designer’s clothing and trying to fill in psychological gaps with them. Over at the other hand, they are more of fashion rejecters – totally looking down on everyone who would pay even the least attention to what he wraps his body around with. Either point is just a misinterpretation of fashion – if you ask me – since fashion is something quite more simple and quite more important.

Fashion, as seen through my eyes, is a way of expression and the different ways of expression consist of Art. How is it different from creating a painting the way you are getting dressed? Making an outfit has to do with aesthetics, mixing the colors in a way that looks good to you, choosing the different parts in a way that represents you. Represents your special touch, your current mood, or even the way you think. Now, can you find too much difference in all that from creating that painting? In both cases, there is that need to say something by using different ways, other than that of words. There is a wordless dialogue taking place. And what is more? In the case of this particular painting - the one of how you are getting dressed I mean, you are dealing with having to carry it on you all day!

David Bowie, when asked about fashion once, said that the way you dress shows the way you want others to perceive you. I think the whole meaning of fashion is summed up in that phrase. Because if you come to think about it… Managing to bring into balance your inner and outer self is another step towards self-awareness and finding your style is a way to achieve that, isn’t it?