Many people tend to see fashion, and trends as an interest of vanity. Who cares what people are wearing and how many people follow a trend? You may not know it, but fashion dictates everything. The way you present your self is the way you come off to the world. Every day, the clothes you put on your back can very well determine how your day is going to go. And those clothes that you put on, whether it be sweatpants or a gown, started from somewhere. I believe the best way to put it is in the words of the iconic Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada.
“This stuff’? Oh, ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back.
But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean. You’re also blindly unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn’t it, who showed cerulean military jackets? And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers.
Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic “casual corner” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin.
However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”
The recycling of trends whether it be, an article of clothing, a color, a fabric or an accessory is something that we don’t even realize happens every day in the world around us. These trends start from the top and trickle down to the “bottom” where most of our wallets live. I look forward to delving into these trends during the upcoming fashion season and see how they make their way to the public.
– Marina Di Costanzo
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