Have you ever watched a fashion show or a clothing collection and wondered... What’s going on?!? What are they wearing? Why are they styled like that? Is there a concept? Where's the theme? What muse buried the underlying message?
Personally, fashion was a mystery while I was growing up. I never truly understood the process of creating clothes or what inspired designers from season to season. It wasn’t until I got older that my love of literature and art translated into a love of fashion.
To cover up or not to cover up. That cannot be all there is to fashion. And it’s not.
Miguel Vieira, who has been a fashion designer since the 1980s, merges fashion and art at the Milan Fashion Week when Vieira showcases Pop Art in his Spring 2019 collection:
Photo Credit: http://www.miguelvieira.pt/ss-2019-milan-fashion-week
Portugal Fashion Week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE1mB1ivSBg
Fashion can be art, protest, style, and culture wrapped up in a beautiful pink silk chiffon or a traditional Piu Piu (Maori Flax Skirt).
Fashion sneaks a peek at the past and weaves understanding of battles won with colorful bikinis or firmly stares at the future with an athletic Hijab.
Photo Credit: www.nike.com
As some fashionistas burn bras to be heard others wear next to nothing, like Vietnamese fashion designer and model - Ngoc Trinh - at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, use fashion just to be seen.
Through art and protest, fashion empowers all who seek it. Fashion allows the space for a particular personal freedom of expression that encompasses so many layers of who we could be and what we’re passionate about. Fashion incorporates grand scale concepts and minute details - seamlessly.
So, get ready to share your fashion culture, as I show you mine, and let the world hear our voices.
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