What exactly is fashion? Simply defined, fashion refers to the area of activity that concerns the styles of clothing and appearance. Not only does fashion contributes to a person’s self-esteem and confidence, but it is also a way to express style and personality. Fashion also portrays the values of a culture, religion, or country. It is like a superhero that brightens up our monochromatic and colourless world.
As Vivienne Westwood said,
When you are a woman making clothes for women, then fashion is not just about how you look. It is about how you feel and how you think
Here are some of the influences that fashion has on our daily life.
⦁ Fashion represents history
The repetition of trends and patterns comes from a long-term understanding of the influential characteristics of fashion in human history. As anthropologists believe that people used animal skin and vegetation as a protection against heat, cold, rain, etc. Now we see designers telling the same story of our forefathers by creating clothing from skin and vegetation.
⦁ Fashion contributes to a person’s confidence
A person’s outlook and identity are greatly affected by the way he dresses. It automatically boosts confidence and the person is more likely to feel good inside and out. When you feel good about yourself, you have more energy and you treat others well in turn. Fashion makes a person bold by adding alluring colors to his average outfit.
⦁ Fashion allows you to be independent in your thinking and creativity
Fashion allows an individual to express himself by exploring various ways. Fashion is indeed an amalgamation of value, thinking, and creativity. Designers create their characters through clothes. This is the same as writers create scenarios through their words. Everyone has their own unique way of creating fashion and making new forms and figures, images and materials.
Nicolas Ghesquiere explained fashion as,
What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.
⦁ Fashion helps people fit in or stand out from the crowd
The colours, patterns, and texture of a person’s outfit can say a lot about his personality and identity. The way of styling your clothes makes you fit in with people or stand out from the crowd. So, your outfit has a major role in attaching you to a certain type of person regardless of your interests.
⦁ Fashion helps tell a story about you
Fashion tells a story about who you are and where you have been. Your clothes not only reveal how styles have changed but also how you have or have not changed over time. It tells the fact that how you have developed your style and gained confidence in your own individual look. So, we can say that fashion is an important part of our society. It has a strong potential of bringing different people together to celebrate their individuality.
Fashion keeps on changing over time. It is an evergreen business that continues learning new things and creating masterpieces.
As Karl Lagerfeld once said,
Fashion is about change – and I like change.