Evolution as a Person and Its Projection Through Fashion
When we're growing up, we rarely see the things that we experience as changing us to our cores. But at the same time, our cores remain the same. I think it is very essential to evolve as a human being. You cannot just stay at one point in your life and not see the ability to grow into something better, or sometimes worse, over time. Time passes, so should we. With the passage of time, so should our skins, and we should allow ourselves to evolve.
Evolution is inevitable if one needs to progress in life. That phase of monotony, where everything is just how it is, and a person is doing the same thing over and over, it's just so...stagnant. To be able to absorb the world, as it keeps on shifting, and the incorporating the desired and needed changes in one's self is what keeps us afloat as humans. To evolve is human. And evolution is necessary to survive.
In fashion, this very well may be called adapting to the trends. But who makes these trends? Who calls the shots? If we look at the various designers and labels, we see how it happens. Inspiration, Creativity, Work, and Individuality account for all the things that make one person's work stand apart from another's and evolve on it's own.
We saw YSL do it in his time. If you've seen the new biopic based on his life, we see how over time, YSL evolved as a human being and it translated into his work. Similarly, this is what Karl Lagerfeld is doing to Chanel. He's making an age old label relevant in today's time. Thanks to the human ability to evolve, fashion is evolving. If it weren't for the ability of these people to grow as humans, we would never see fashion grow. And we'd never have the Moschino that Jeremy Scott is giving us. This is what Christopher Bailey is doing to Burberry, and Hedi Slimane is doing with YSL. They're letting the labels they work for, evolve. Evolve to be relevant, evolve to be human.
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Hedi Slimane did to YSL what can clearly be aimed at the label's inclination to appeal to the instagram addicted youth of today.[/caption]
Sure, anyone can make the staples, or the little black dress, but to turn a piece of clothing into a work of art; that is what these people have been doing. And along with the evolution that they've been going through, they've held on to the things that make them stand out, thus creating their signatures.
In Pakistan, we have seen the new age designers such as Akif Mehmood, Fahad Hussayn and Ali Xeshan evolve into something that speaks volumes of their artistic growth. The veterans, Mahin Khan, Rizwan Beyg, Sana Safinaz, etc have all proved how their labels have evolved into something that's their signature.
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Ali Xeeshan[/caption]
Similiary, we have our style icons. Surely they didn't get to their lime-lightened spots because they were able to be great and awesome from the start. They evolved! Alexa Chung, The Blonde Salad, Adam Gallagher, Rihanna, Blake Lively etc are living examples of how fashion evolves as the human beings evolve. It just shows.
Growth is regardless of age. It happens even when the bones stop growing, but the mind absorbs. The mind's ability to let the human being create something out of it is amazing. In fashion, this is how we get great collections every year.
Even if we look at ourselves, as fashion bloggers or fashionistas, we see that with the passage of time, our wardrobes evolve into this huge projection of how we feel and what we have become. As we grow and change, so do our wardrobes.
If it weren't for the human ability to evolve, we'd be stuck at a point where everyone would look the same, feel the same because they'd be donning the same. And a true fashionista would never let that happen, right? So one just HAS to evolve. Fashion, and life, call for it.
Evolution is inevitable if one needs to progress in life. That phase of monotony, where everything is just how it is, and a person is doing the same thing over and over, it's just so...stagnant. To be able to absorb the world, as it keeps on shifting, and the incorporating the desired and needed changes in one's self is what keeps us afloat as humans. To evolve is human. And evolution is necessary to survive.
In fashion, this very well may be called adapting to the trends. But who makes these trends? Who calls the shots? If we look at the various designers and labels, we see how it happens. Inspiration, Creativity, Work, and Individuality account for all the things that make one person's work stand apart from another's and evolve on it's own.
We saw YSL do it in his time. If you've seen the new biopic based on his life, we see how over time, YSL evolved as a human being and it translated into his work. Similarly, this is what Karl Lagerfeld is doing to Chanel. He's making an age old label relevant in today's time. Thanks to the human ability to evolve, fashion is evolving. If it weren't for the ability of these people to grow as humans, we would never see fashion grow. And we'd never have the Moschino that Jeremy Scott is giving us. This is what Christopher Bailey is doing to Burberry, and Hedi Slimane is doing with YSL. They're letting the labels they work for, evolve. Evolve to be relevant, evolve to be human.
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350"]
Hedi Slimane did to YSL what can clearly be aimed at the label's inclination to appeal to the instagram addicted youth of today.[/caption]Sure, anyone can make the staples, or the little black dress, but to turn a piece of clothing into a work of art; that is what these people have been doing. And along with the evolution that they've been going through, they've held on to the things that make them stand out, thus creating their signatures.
In Pakistan, we have seen the new age designers such as Akif Mehmood, Fahad Hussayn and Ali Xeshan evolve into something that speaks volumes of their artistic growth. The veterans, Mahin Khan, Rizwan Beyg, Sana Safinaz, etc have all proved how their labels have evolved into something that's their signature.
[caption id="attachment_4502" align="aligncenter" width="400"]
Ali Xeeshan[/caption]Similiary, we have our style icons. Surely they didn't get to their lime-lightened spots because they were able to be great and awesome from the start. They evolved! Alexa Chung, The Blonde Salad, Adam Gallagher, Rihanna, Blake Lively etc are living examples of how fashion evolves as the human beings evolve. It just shows.
Growth is regardless of age. It happens even when the bones stop growing, but the mind absorbs. The mind's ability to let the human being create something out of it is amazing. In fashion, this is how we get great collections every year.
Even if we look at ourselves, as fashion bloggers or fashionistas, we see that with the passage of time, our wardrobes evolve into this huge projection of how we feel and what we have become. As we grow and change, so do our wardrobes.
If it weren't for the human ability to evolve, we'd be stuck at a point where everyone would look the same, feel the same because they'd be donning the same. And a true fashionista would never let that happen, right? So one just HAS to evolve. Fashion, and life, call for it.