Reflection Paper About Fashion

1. Why did you choose this program?
Because I am really interested in fashion, I think it is an extension of my personality. Fashion gives a certain amount of freedom to me and allows me to be who I want to be. A lot of people will say it's because it's a way to really express yourself. It's a way to subtly signal where you fit in, what is in your mind. For me, it's mostly an experience of art. There are large aspects that i am quite ambivalent about of course and sometimes i even dislike the term fashion because of the connotations but as a form of literally being able to put your soul and emotions onto a sleeve,that makes me very enthusiastic about it. I've had so much passion and respect for it from a young age. I remember being around

It serves as language, a non-verbal communication, which is the only way in which a culture's beliefs, mores, customs etc are passed on to another generations. Our choice of clothes represent inner desires and emotions which we want to show or hide too. Fashion is everywhere, and everyone is part of it, but it is as diverse as every being's DNA. I suppose for me the thing that I love most about fashion is what it ultimately seeks to do; make life more beautiful than it is by making people look and/or feel more beautiful than they otherwise might. There's something so idealistic about fashion in that it visualizes things in the best possible light. But there's also that part of fashion that seeks to challenge beauty, to change the collective eye and propose new ideas of what beauty can be. And unlike any other art form, the beauty that is often created in fashion is completely fleeting, it's a moment. At it's best it burns brightly and quickly and can never be duplicated. That ability to change, to constantly renew itself is probably what makes fashion so intoxicating. I love that you can look at one designer's work within a given period of time and see the change, whether it's blatant and revolutionary or subtle and evolutionary. You can't always