Monday, November 1, 2010

What is Fashion?

What is fashion? A formal definition of fashion describes it as “a prevailing custom or style of dress”. In fact, most simply associate fashion with clothing and accessories. And while these are fun and important aspects of fashion, it is so much more than that. Fashion is art! It is freedom of expression through a medium that can be incorporated into everyday life. Clothing should never simply be a necessity. It should be a joy, beautiful, shocking, or ridiculous. Fashion is the best and fastest way to show who you are. So, what is fashion? Coco Chanel said that “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.” I think that sums it up rather nicely.

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