Sunday, February 26, 2012
Fashion hauls
I was wondering this morning, how the future of fashion would end up being at the end of this century. I was born in the 80's and I remember studying fashion from the 1900's on and seeing where we had come from, and where we were now. I haven't studied this lately maybe because I lose interest or perhaps because it's not as important as it once was. What brings me to this conclusion is the fact that I keep seeing the same styles over and over again and the re-inventing has become boring and lifeless. Could it be there's nothing to re-invent? I think so... and then I don't think so. I was thinking about it this morning, pondering what kept eating at me that I am tending to think that worldwide fashion will die in the 21st century? To me, it's the lesser ability to compliment many people's individual styles and personalities at once. Fashion has yet become a personal choice rather than a social choice. I say this with great emphasis on the dreaded "hipsters"... those whom I wish to address, and those whom I've been accused of being also. It's the title that's brutal, but take for instance, the hats, the hair, the mustaches, the suspenders, the pants, and the overall idea of them or, us, whatever that means. It's a conscious effort to look a socially acceptable way but complying in a way that suits individual needs without the need to grab the latest and greatest newest piece of cloth from Urban Outfitters or GAP. I'm not a fashionista anymore and my involvement in the fashion world lacks, but hasn't it started to imply that social fashion has run out of ideas? I believe by the end of THIS century, runways, catwalks, and fashion shows will be a thing of the past. Why? Because people will start catching onto the fact that this was a style once seen, and once seen again, and again just a short decade ago. Fashion used to have a 30 year turnaround retrospective. Now it's a retrospective of the retrospective. The 2012's are a retoaction of the 80's and the 80's were a retroaction of the 50's. I mention this because the bohemian will always become mainstream, and the bohemian are asking from the 20's and 30's of the 20th century. Why would they need to skip 70 decades to look for another interesting social fashion. In some (more interesting) cases, they borrow from the 20's, and the 50's and the 70's with a splash of 80's. These are my personal favorites because that's where I believe I belong. I look at it in the same way as I've been looking at art history, this is one time that art has funally surpassed fashion in its evolution. The realism is the starting point, abstraction is the finishing point. Soon, fashion will be such a composition of decades with pieces taken from every generations's style and merged with each other in a composition on a body, what will you call it? Abstract. That's what I would call it. Will the fashion in another 30 years be as interesting and renaissance as this years fashion on fashion on fashion was? We will never know until it comes but I personally like to imaging the possibilities.
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