High Fashion - High Risk?
Every season we, as consumers of fashion, are bombarded by particular styles and trends deemed fashionable by high fashion brands and institutions on the catwalk. Many of these styles and trends are exquisite in their design and make, but there are always some designs that really make an audience as the consumer think… “What the?!”
As fashion conscious citizens we continue in our attempts to replicate these trends so as to remain up-to-date and to resist the fear of slipping into that dreaded category that many fall into everyday… the dreaded title of “unfashionable”. (bom, bom, BOM!)
Its classifications like this that makes me think, when did being fashionable become such a strived for notion by modern day consumers and why?
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore fashion and the trends that fade in and out from season to season, but what intrigues me is the fact that in our modern day society we are just so fixated by something that can be considered an art from by some and a waste of time by others. These two binary opposites are most definitely intriguing are they not?
For me, fashion is indeed an art form and is something that cannot be done justice through replication in the everyday. In the everyday we dress for comfort, practicality and sensibility whilst attempting to encompass various trends we have seen from the catwalk and what has been dictated to us from higher fashion institutions; whereas in the fashion world, one dresses for iconography, admiration and extravagance. It is one, big costume party and its looks like immense fun!
As fashion conscious citizens we continue in our attempts to replicate these trends so as to remain up-to-date and to resist the fear of slipping into that dreaded category that many fall into everyday… the dreaded title of “unfashionable”. (bom, bom, BOM!)
Its classifications like this that makes me think, when did being fashionable become such a strived for notion by modern day consumers and why?
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore fashion and the trends that fade in and out from season to season, but what intrigues me is the fact that in our modern day society we are just so fixated by something that can be considered an art from by some and a waste of time by others. These two binary opposites are most definitely intriguing are they not?
For me, fashion is indeed an art form and is something that cannot be done justice through replication in the everyday. In the everyday we dress for comfort, practicality and sensibility whilst attempting to encompass various trends we have seen from the catwalk and what has been dictated to us from higher fashion institutions; whereas in the fashion world, one dresses for iconography, admiration and extravagance. It is one, big costume party and its looks like immense fun!
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