Saturday, March 6, 2010

Fashion vs. style

Fashion vs. style. Are you a slave to what you see in magazines and on the rack at expensive stores? Or do you know what you want to wear, seek it out at the lowest price, and mix and match what works for you and creates the look you want to project.

Do you wear logos? Not your logo. Someone else's logo. Why? Do you want to advertise somebody else's product? Or is it your intention to show that you really know how to be in fashion by having Versace written all over your body.


You actually paid for that logo shirt. They should be paying you. I have noticed recently that sometimes people forget the difference between fashion and style. Yes, most designers produce fashionable products, yet did you notice that, with few exceptions, year after year they make same product just mixing up a few details, different colors. Sometimes its not what you have on or person next to you has on but how you are wearing it, with what are you wearing it, and what attitude do you have in your face. That is when style comes into play.


Fashion costs money. Yet anyone can be fashionable by borrowing some ideas and putting them to practice. But the main question is can you be stylish? Style is not expensive but it requires total freedom—freedom from internal and external self-importance. An undamaged ego.


Of course there's nothing wrong with having well crafted, hand made designer things. You work hard and deserve to treat yourself. But it does not look good when people walk down the street in Coach shoes, a Louis Vuitton bag hanging from the elbow, neck wrapped in a Burberry scarf, head covered with Dior. At best, it looks foolish. And it always looks as if you're trying too hard.


You can spend $20 on an outfit and look phenomenal. And you know how there's always some girl who looks like they just rolled out of bed but somehow her hair looks fabulous and her skin is glowing? That takes confidence... and confidence is always sexy, stylish, and fashionable.


A monotonous person will always be boring. Excitement exists only in fascination and titillation. A fashion-unconscious person will always be senseless. Fashion exists only for the mannequins choose what they wear by label alone.

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