Current fashion shows strike its viewers with eccentric outfits: a triangle-shaped dress, mat skirts, double jeans, $3,000 straw hat dress. Moreover these “impossible -to-wear -clothes “ cost a fortune. But are they worth spending money on? Are fashionable clothes look any stylish?
First and foremost, I think clothes introduced in fashion shows are aimed to express a designer’s feelings and emotions. Fashion is not only about looking pretty, it is ART. Surely, a casual T-shirt with a pair of denim jeans is not powerful enough base for an artist to show own depth. In other words, a runway show that features unwearable garments should be seen as an art exhibition.
For instance, Comme Des Garçons’ Fall / Winter 2017 collection introduces an outfit that makes you see a sculpture in which the human body is used as a material. This garment tells you a story about the influence of media on women’s bodies. Here we have food for thought, haven’t we? Moreover, some huge companies such as Armani, Zara, Versace. I know it might be a surprise to many people, but introduced clothes do not go for sale! You may find these unwearable garments in stores, where they are used as examples of fabrics, composition, embroidery, colour and so on. In addition, as you are never allowed to buy unwearable pieces of art in stores, you can buy their ‘translated’ wearable version. Obviously, it would be very expensive, still eccentric clothes, which require a certain event to wear them on.
Wearing such clothes doesn’t always mean you are stylish, because they were rather created to show three characteristics of the owner:1) he is rich; 2) he is courageous 3) he is self-confident.
In my point of view, style entirely differs from fashion. To my mind, style is the way you wear your hair, the manner you communicate with others – generally speaking, it’s the way you carry yourself. You can’t buy style for 1 million dollar, because the style is your personal work with your look, which costs squillions. Moreover, a stylish person may not follow fashion at all. The style consists of three components: 1) your way of living; 2) disguising your flaws 3) accentuating your good points. As you might have mentioned, the word ‘ your’ is repeated in all three components, that means style kind of ‘works for you’. For example, wearing fashionable double jeans at the office is more than awkward, isn’t it? I guess training in pre-destroyed Margiela sneakers is harmful to your feet, what do you think?
On balance, style and fashion are entirely different notions, that should not be mixed. Fashionable clothes are not necessarily stylish, and vice versa. I would rather be stylish, than fashionable, and what about you?
