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I love fashion, but I hate fashion
January 23, 2016
A sentence that stayed in my mind. "I love fashion, but at the same time I hate it." When I heard someone saying this last week I was like yes, yes, yes, so true!
I love fashion
Okay, I love fashion. Fashion is about expressing yourself, about telling a story without actually talking. It's a form of art. I love to think about and plan ahead what to wear, for which occasion. It can happen that I change my outfit three times a day, because it has to match the thing I want to do, the place I go to, the people I meet and of course the weather. Fashion is fun, it's always changing, it never stops to reach further than before. Fashion is about fast trends, but it can be timeless. It's developing super fast and it criticizes. I recommend you to read articles about what designers want to express with their collections. Often they are about philosophical ideas, but sometimes they even want to make aware of things that go wrong. And if we think about it, we need fashion because we are individuals and not everyone wants to wear the same ;) And I think most of you agree with me here.
I hate fashion
But around the general idea of fashion, a whole industry developed over the years. Photographers, stylists, models and front-row-guests, bloggers and it-girls, fashion magazines, and the list goes on. I agree there's a lot of cool jobs in the international world of fashion and often I would love to be part of it. But I know that this world is often about envy and hate. It's about egoism. It's about superficialities. Who wears the most fashionable outfit? Who is the thinnest? And that's the part of the world that scares me.
Economical, ecological and social unfairness
Economical, ecological and social unfairness
But there is more. We all know how our clothes got manufactured. Do you? People died while sewing your clothes when the factory building collapsed. They didn't quit this job were they have to work in horrible conditions, because they need the money. And the money they earn is nothing compared to what you have to pay for the piece, and the money they earn is by far not enough to live properly. It's not enough money to buy food for the family. So even the children have to work.
I know, most of you got annoyed by now. Because you know this. Because everyone is talking about this too much in your opinion. And because no one is changing something. And I agree, it's hard to change something.
I know, most of you got annoyed by now. Because you know this. Because everyone is talking about this too much in your opinion. And because no one is changing something. And I agree, it's hard to change something.
But I have to say this, because that's the part of fashion I hate. It's not social fair. It's not economical reasonable (except you can make a lot of money ;). And it's not ecological sustainable.
Be the change
Be the change
But I know there's a lot of people out there who try to change things. Who try to make sustainable fashion. Who care about people and not about materialism. And that's my intention why I don't run away from it.
If you're interested in that topic, there is a impressive movie called "The true cost" by Andrew Morgan about this. You can find the trailer here.
This is just a glimpse of what I think,
Janina
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