Why Don't Fashion Designers Dress To Kill?
You eagerly watch Project Runway as the models comes strutting down the runway. You see outfits, tops, skirts, jackets, suits that you know would look good on you and button-down sexy shirts in colors that would make your piecing green stand out in the sun like nothing else..
And just when you think that this particular fashion designer has got it good, out walks this trashy-looking hippy fella dressed as if he found some raggiddy rags in a dumpster out back in the alley, threw them on and mistakenly ended up on the fashion runway. Oh wait, no, no, that's the brains behind the clothes you just saw. What is up with that?
You would think these designers would dressed to kill. But no, why would they dress other people and make them look hot yet when it comes to themselves? Nahh they don't bother putting in the effort. Why do many designers always look as though they've been shopping at the op shop in St-Kilda and yet simultaneously design clothes that are fit for celebrities? Are they ironically laughing at us? Ha, ha, you suckers, pay hundreds of dollars to wear my label across your t-shirt, whilst I remain content in my dirt cheap ugly tee and old jeans.
Whatever the case, you would think that being in a position of influence, that fashinistas would lead by example and dress to kill rather than walk around looking like a shmuck in raggiddy clothing. Victims of fashion? Call the Fashion Police? What are they doing? Then again, perhaps it comes down to the fact that most artists thrive on simplicity. After all, they are independent artists.. They don't have an image stylist, they style themselves, maybe it comes down to the fact that because they spend all day dressing others, when it comes to making themselves look hot, they cannot be bothered with such efforts.
I mean if you were the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, would you show up at a business meeting dressed up in crocodile shoes and a pink t-shirt? I think not. Then again, I have worked somewhere where the CEO did actually wear crocodile shoes! Woah but that's a different topic of its own. Designers and artistes have the comfort and luckyness, of being weird and excentric and have the advantage of passing it off as state of the art, progressive and hip.
Don't get me wrong; of course there are those designers that easily define what style is all about, rain or shine. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule. But we are not talking about them right now. :)
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