Look Out for The Fashion Police
Casually doing a bit of window buying goods a couple of years back in one of Italy s oh so fashionable small lane ways, I noticed that pointy toe stiletto s were everyplace. Glancing down at my round toe Mary Jane s I d just bought before leaving Australia, I was feeling both repulsed and anxious. Repulsed because I thought pointy toe stiletto s were ugly, and anxious because I knew it was only an issue of time before I would be forking out the lire to buy them. Two weeks later, I had succumbed. The trend had gotten the better of me, in spite of how silly I looked when the heels got caught in the uneven Italian pavement each time I walked down the street (which was when it comes to each three steps).
So what was it that changed my mind? I believe the answer lies in the hands of, well, a handful of individuals called Trend Analysts AKA The Fashion Police. Their job: To serve and protect the commercial interests of fashion companies all over the globe. How? By dissecting the public’s psychology of what are going to be the next trend are going to be via spacious travel and buying goods expeditions (those bastards). These trend analysts then report back to analysis companies, who then go on to consolidate their determinations in industry magazines and internet sites for the use of fashion companies.
I d like to say that fashion companies use analysis companies because they are lazy, but it s certainly not the case. They are just frightened to make a fault (may you imagine devising 1000 pairs of high waisted skinny leg jeans only to find that every one was going for low rise bootleg? Ebay auctioning them is NOT a solution here). There are also unbelievable time constraints amongst the seasons. So most designers design their range around what they are fed, and whether or not they are lucky they get to travel around Europe and Japan to buy garments to take inspiration from . They are we get a slight variation of the trend theme each season; all our designers are buying goods in the same store in London! They are you want to see something actually interesting, just notice the women with suitcases in major department stores buying size ten (when They are size 12) at the commence of each season. Ask them what they are up to for a living.
May you see we are at the hands of a confederacy! ? We need to take activity. I urge you to burn your pleather DKNY handbags! Let s make up our own trends! I myself am going to knit and extended version of the merkin (If you don t recognise what one is, I advise you Google it because I m certainly not when it comes to to explain). Yep, it s going to be a toasty winter for me rugged up in my black merkin cardigan
Which brings me back to my primary thought at the beginning of this piece (merkins also have the power to fetch individuals back to what they were in the first place thinking). What was it that made me buy those pointy toe high heels I now so dearly cherish? I believe it comes down to one word: Agreement. Agreement by trend analysts, agreement by industry magazines, agreement by designers, agreement in fashion magazines, agreement throughout the stores, and at long last, agreement by you. Agreement creates our fashion reality. Not always bad, but within the safety of agreement comes a absence or unavailability of invention. And that s why we need those quirky fashion revolutionaries; so we may steel their ideas, manufacture them times a million, and sell the homogenized version back to you. Back to square one. We again enter into a state of agreement. Weird world we re living in ain t it? Now where did I put my knitting needles and my merkin wool supply. . ?