Category Archives: Pilosophy of fashion

Being one step ahead of fashion trends might be a bad thing

Wherever I look I see people who desperately want to be fashionable. I’ve recently read in a book that in Paris it is better to have no bed than to have no clothes. Not dressing according to the fashion trends is a  reason for shame and it has been widely accepted that  it is a bad thing to be out of fashion. I will not argue this statement, as I take it for granted. But there is another question that came to my mind. What if you are always one step ahead fashion? Is this something good, anyone should try to do it, or is it another reason for shame?

I guess that at a first glance, you’d say ‘hey, of course it is a good thing to be one step ahead fashion trends, this should be something to be proud of, after all, you can anticipate fashion’.
Well, yes, after all, you can anticipate fashion trends, so what? Go work for a designer or fashion magazine, write some fashion forecasting articles, but don’t wear it before its time.

Why?

Because fashion is the very expression of society. From my point of view, being out of fashion is just as bad as being one step ahead of fashion trends. Either way, you are not fit in the society. Of course, if you like going to the mad house, you could say that it is a good thing, an act of individualism not to be fit in the society, but it is just as saying that it is a good thing to wear grandma clothes when a baby and baby clothes when a grandma. Don’t forget the old saying: there is a time for everything.