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Ridiculous Decadency
tommydski:
To be contrary, for two years or so I had a girlfriend who worked for Karl Lagerfeld. The people in fashion I met during this time were the most incredibly headstrong, talented, unpretentious and unbelievably hardworking people I have ever met. I think something that I didn't appreciate before was that working in fashion requires you to be proficient in a wide range of skills. You have to be able to conceive, design, render and then actually make outfits on your own. This means every person has to be able to draw to an artistic and then technical standard, have an incredibly wide knowledge of materials and how they fit together as well as being able to literally make their designs with their own hands. It's only through many, many years of hard work do people earn proxies and functionaries to carry out these tasks. To these regular rank and file designers who work for the larger fashion houses, they put in an awful lot of work for comparatively little return. They don't do it out of some sense of 'cool', they do it because they genuinely love their craft and are every bit as committed to their art as anyone else.
However, the media coverage of fashion is often pretty misleading and every bit as distasteful as you might imagine.
Personally, when I wear specific outfits deliberately it is because they are functional. I utilise certain outfits in the same way you might use any tool you might have at your disposal. I have a couple of suits I use when I am running presentations for the company I work for because certain looks do subconciously alter people's perception. I am a professional and I feel like it is my duty to use every trick at my disposal for the good of my employers. On occasions, I may need to have the appearance of someone who is dynamic, authoritative and affluent. If people with money are more inclined to invest if they see a young man in an Armani suit, I'll wear an Armani suit. I'm being paid to get results and I would be disappointed in myself if I didn't perform to the best of my ability. This is what you might call goal-orientated fashion. No more different than if you had a job dressing up as Mickey Mouse at Disneyland.
On topic - I just spent $16,000 on a new kitchen.
SeanBateman:
My fashion is goal oriented too!
The goal is to get people who appreciate fashion to touch my penis.
tommydski:
Exactly.
Liz:
I kinda think that what you see in a magazine is more along the lines of the style that they want you to emulate. Therefore if you follow magazines you are stylish, not fashionable. The difference to me is that fashion is doing your own thing and being original, style is being a copycat.
I know that was worded really oddly but it makes sense in my head.
Lines:
I don't think style is necessarily being a copycat. I always thought of it as a way to categorize just what kind of fashion you're into, like genres or music, etc. Like it's a subset of fashion as a whole.
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