Fashion

What is fashion for you? – Clothes, shoes, cosmetics, books, magazines or maybe something else? This topic is absolutely mine and I can discuss it for hours.
The most widespread opinion about fashion sounds that way : “Fashion is a form of cheating, the method of swindling out of all your money. Today we have to wear short trousers, tomorrow we rush to buy long ones and this mess will never stop, because every season designers dictate us new trends.”

I hope you’ve read Eric Berne’s book "Games People Play" – the so-called "must-read" about the rules of survival in the modern world. What I want to say is that for me fashion is another kind of a game people play. This game is one of the most beautiful, pleasing and has its own rituals. People love playing this game.

Long time ago there were designers who created something extraordinary; they “painted a graphic vivid picture” - like, for example, young Ev Saint Laurent. After that the industry’s mechanism was created, the industry became autonomous, with its own rules. This a cruel machinery and a really big business. When the business was build in such a cruel, clear and efficient way, society had nothing but to subordinate.

We can hardly distinguish between fashion and style. Let’s make it clear.

 Fashion is about things you love in yourself and want to present to the society. Clothes, cosmetics and even colour of your skin are your tools in showing yourself to the World. You can’t just “copy” it and “paste” in your style. The discrepancy will be too evident.
 

Style is person’s ability to project the image of his/her individuality on the “World’s screen”. Your style of behaviour shows who you truly are. Clothes will reflect your mood, taste, the level of education, etc. Highly cultured person in most cases is also a well-dressed person.

I will write more posts about fashion industry and its history. There is one thing you have to know about this business: “ In high-fashion there is not enough just to do a good job”.

 

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