(Thumbing through pages of this month's Departures issue. Eyes wander over cover article.)
"[Leading magazine editor] has covered the collections in Paris, Milan, and New York for decades and tracked their cultural impact . . . "
"[Leading magazine editor] has covered the collections in Paris, Milan, and New York for decades and tracked their cultural impact . . . "
(Puzzled look)
It is my belief that culture is what affects fashion --not the other way around. Designers are the IV tube linked to our cultural saline bag --designers provide us with the translation of our culture intravenously to our daily lives. In war, we wear epaulets; during times of recession, we wear short skirts; when we are guilty of our own pollution and waste, we transform into primordial water creatures.
Magazine editors were once the catheter attached to our bodies, as they directly parlayed culture and fashion to us in an intimately understandable and relative way. Today, fashion is at a crossroads between Mass Consumer Court and Obsolescence Avenue. How are editors to deliver the cultural solution to fashion if what links them are technologically and ideologically outdated? One mustn't forget that this generation is much different from the last: glamour and excess can no longer secure a mystique and popularity. What can is the proper understanding of fashion's ability to tell us who we are. The fashion industry today is turning fashion into the tyranny of the majority, where mass consumer demands rule over unique artistic visionaries.
It is my hope that this blog illustrates that fashion is the embodiment of culture, translated by the designers who understand it best.
- Frank Expósito, 24, Assistant in the fashion industry.
