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Harajuku Street Fashion
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Fashion is a lot more than just buying the latest 'it bag' or 'killer heels' that cost the same as funding a small school in Burundi. Whether you choose to embrace it and are likely to be snapped up by a Japonese street photographer or you share the same fashion variety as Steve Jobs. You can't escape it... Fashion is everywhere. I believe not only is it part of our society to decorate ourselves, but it is part of our nature. You can look at the most secluded human tribes in the middle of the Amazon and find that people will be making and wearing jewelry. Wearing it to enhance their beauty, to seduce and show how high up they rank... Sound a bit like New York, London, Paris?
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| Evolution of Steve Jobs fashion sense |
Fashion is playing dressing up... And dressing up is important, because of how it makes us feel and the message we give out. And the healing power of dress up shouldn't be underestimated. I first started questioning the importance of image and individuality in a history class at school when I was told about the story of the red lipstick delivery at Belsen Concentration camp. What seemed like the most useless delivery, boxes of red lipstick to starving people turned out to be one of the kindest gifts. Women who where living in conditions we cannot even imagine, where given a form of escapism and glamour that had been viciously removed from their lives. "At last someone had done something to make them individuals again, they were someone, no longer merely the number tattooed on the arm. At last they could take interest in their appearance. The lipstick started to give them back their humanity." Lt Col Gonin's diary which is kept in the Imperial War museum.
Fashion is a celebration of our complexity. Women can dress as men and men as women...
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| Grayson Perry |
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| Jule e Jim |
Through fashion we create...look at these great alter egos...
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| Ziggy Stardust |
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| Miley Cyrus who was Hannah Montana with Lady Gaga, the Queen of alter egos, she has millions of followers, people to have found themselves in her fantasy world.. her little 'monsters' they are lovingly called |
We say what we believe in...
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| Vivienne Westwood, I am not a terrorist T-shirts and baby grows... |
So I truly believe that some frivolities are everything but frivolous.
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