People have the power in Fashion, which is not just for the few anymore. It is accessible to everyone to wear, purchase, criticize and celebrate! And this is what we call Fashionalism!
Take a look at your closet. Surely you own at least one designer item (even if their name shares the tag with the H&M logo). Leave it to Fast Fashion to bring you all the latest runway trends in affordable prices. High Fashion designers can only deal with it the way Lanvin or V&R have done with H&M; by giving people some cake.
Events like Fashion Night Out also allow everyday people to get involved and be part of the fashion world.
And of course there is fashion blogging, which can be considered as the ultimate form of fashion democracy. Anyone can be a model, stylist, photographer and -why not- a fashion icon nowadays, thanks to the internet.
But this is not what we will be doing. This is not yet another regular fashion blog.
We are interested in the various forms of fashion democracy and how they develop.
And we are just wondering, does this phenomenon have a dark side, besides the obvious bright one?
Your thoughts will be much appreciated.
Welcome on board!
*** The Marangonians
Whether or not Fashion is in fact democratic depends completely on the era. The recent era of fashion’s democratization has already shifted from the halcyon moments post-9/11 when everyone, and I mean everyone (from Anna Wintour to Rudy Giuliani), was proclaiming fashion as a right to which every free person was entitled in a liberal society. To now, the recent backlash against fashion bloggers, indicates that the pendulum may be swinging back towards exclusivity – which has profound implications for how we understand, among other things, economic democracy.
ReplyDeletei thought that the democratization of fashion was a good think until i went to a Suzy Menkes lecture in San Francisco called "If fashion is for everyone, is it still fashion?" hmmm...maybe not, i want fashion to be for those who know, those how care, not every little teenager who likes to shop and wants to start a blog.
ReplyDeletei think fashion SHOULD be for everyone.. screw this elitist bullshit
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