A Few Words About Fashion

I am by no means an expert on fashion or style. But I love it. I love clothes and how they can transform a person; how you can express yourself to the world. I like exploring the ever-changing and ever-constant (A dichotomy, no?) world of fashion. From the American standards like Michael Kors and Ralph Lauren, to the ridiculously otherworldly like Alexander McQueen, Mugler, and Comme des Garcons.

It's not a perfect world. Sometimes it's really stupid. Sometimes it's unfair. Sometimes it's inaccessible.

But... I like it. I like talking about it, posting about it, writing about it, ruminating on it.

Here is what a few folks have to say on the subject:

"I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, they just put it down. On the whole, people that may say the meanny things about our world, I think that's usually because they feel, in some ways excluded or, you know, not a part of 'the cool group,' so as a result they just mock it.

Just because you like to put on a beautiful Carolina Herrera dress or a pair of J Brand blue jeans instead of something basic from K-Mart, it doesn't mean that you're a dumb person.

There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous." --Anna Wintour

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"True fashion is about the triumph of personal style, and in these uncertain times, don’t you want to dress up and face the music in your greatest thrift-shop finery?" --Lynn Yaeger

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"Dressing up is an exercise in creativity... Too many people are so afraid and they just want to do what everybody else does and look like everybody else." --Iris Apfel