What is
fashion? Well, to be perfectly honest, I’m
not sure. To me, trying to understand
fashion is similar to men trying to understand women; it just can’t be
done. We can watch it on television, study
it in magazines, even try to replicate it in our own wardrobes but the problem
is, as soon as we think we’ve got it, think we’ve pinned it down, it changes, and
we have to start all over.
I am in
FAME, the University of Virginia’s main fashion club which, for years, has
acted as a resource to help students express their identities and artistic
talents through fashion. In FAME, I am
among a group of talented students from around the world who have come together
to celebrate an art that humans practice every day. No, we are not all art majors- some of us
want to be teachers, or business women, even psychologists, but that does not matter. FAME, like fashion, is accessible to
everyone.
FAME
believes that people should be beautiful, inside and out because, let’s face
it, being fashionable does not always mean you have the newest Michael Khors
bag. Being fashionable means you are
constructing the best, most expressive body possible, and that is what our club
sets out to do. If you take anything
from this blog, let it be that fashion is not owned by any one person; in fact
it isn’t owned by anyone. Like I said
before, fashion is continuously evolving and, just when you think you have
control over it, it has done something completely new and surprising. Unfortunately, we’ll never be able to pin
this thing down, but FAME has taught me that the chase is much more enjoyable
when you do it with company.
So what is
fashion? What defines it? Where will it lead us? As you can probably guess by now, I haven’t
the slightest clue. All I can say is
that it thrills the hell out of me to think about what I’ll discover as I try
to find the answers.
Happy Styling,
Katie
Katie
