Often, the first thing that comes into
people’s minds when the word fashion is mentioned is celebrities and the latest trends
in clothing and shoes.
However, 'fashion critique' goes beyond just the
popular style of clothes. The fashion I intend to write about extends to all
things that society popularises. These vary
from hair styles/cuts, jewellery, shoes, phones and beauty issues such as
weight loss, skin bleaching among others. My definition of fashion is informed
by the late designer, Coco Chanel's quotation on fashion. It
reads,
" Fashion is not something
that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has
to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
Recently, when I asked a few people why
they identify so much with fashion trends they said fashion is important to
them because they want to look good. However, some of the people that I talked
too were saying there are not fans of fashion. Others felt that fashion is a
waste of time and that it has brought more harm than good especially to
children who are now caught up in identity crisis situations.
I have also realised that people go to
the extent of suppressing their likes, their health, feelings, comfort and
esteem in chase of fashion and the fashionable.
Personally, there was a time when I was
obsessed with fashion to an extent that I would prefer to starve
myself and use the little money I got from parents just to buy clothes and
get my hair done just to fit in. Until a friend told me that it’s not always
just about what is deemed fashionable. After all its fashion
today, tomorrow it’s behind the times.
It is all these variations on fashion
that prompted me to assess and write about the popularity of fashion with the
aim of encouraging society that they should make informed decisions in their
pursuit of identifying with fashion.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to
mock fashion. Of cause I understand fashion changes time and again, but the
extent to which some people follow fashion just to fit in the fashion world got
me worried and left me with a burning desire to investigate and say more on
what I think about the popularity of fashion.
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