Okay so I have finally decided to get my act together and start a blog! I am a very creative Design student specialising in Fashion and Styling and it's about time I shared my journey; ups, downs and inbetweens; with the blog world!
So the first topic in hand, The Age Of The Clone; The Introduction. Well it is what it is. We are inevitably exisiting in a time of followers. As much as I adore Fashion; and I too once followed it religiously; it is exactly that - a belonging, an 'in' crowd, It's imitative. And I see a younger me in the younger generation nowadays. The Topshop way or no way. Almost a statement, a need to prove you know your stuff, that you are fashion. And you can spot Topshop attire a mile off, and in doing so you have a huge amount of respect for the girl wearing it, and it's mutual, because you both know.
This need seems to develop during our school years. Prior to being thrown in to pre-school head first the majority of us are carefree to wear what the hell we want, dressing up as Kings and Queens; Pirates and Donkeys for godsake, imitating our elders and ruining our mother's beauty products and trashing her Jewellery box!
(A younger and probably more elegant me!)
How much more fun and exciting was it to mix and match whatever you wanted with absolutely no 'rules'? Before you were aware of the boring 'rules of society'. Sadly, it's when we develop through our school years and 'grow up' that this innate creativity somehow gets repressed and it almost gets drilled into us that there's these unwritten terms and conditions of how we should behave and should dress. And it is our teenage years that see us develop insecurities and the need to be liked and accepted - the in crowd. We follow, we imitate and we need - The Age Of The Clone.
Goodbye for now & Lots of love!
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