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Fashion Blog (Archive)
Saturday, August 28, 2004
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
1:45 AM (Pacific)
Sorry for the multiple posts. I'm doing something else on the computer that's excruciatingly boring, so... :)
Image courtesy of Pretty In Pink Fan Site.
I'm trying to think now of my own fashion icons. The obvious ones: Diane Keaton, Chrissie Hynde, Molly Ringwald, Julia Stiles. I like individualism. I truly do not like the Hollywood style of having someone else pick out your clothes and your entire look. The look is good, but it's generic.
I always think of the East Coast as being more eccentric than the West Coast but I'm thinking of the way the East Coast was 20 years ago. Twenty years ago, the culture was still flavored with the 70's and 60's.
We have undergone cultural communism. :) Of course this is not based on a book by Marx & Engels; it is based on pure capitalism.
Just recently I started really disliking clothes or accessories that have the designer's or manufacturer's name stamped prominently on them as an intrinsic part of the design...where it's just a name, not even a design.
I mean I'll wear Levi's and Felix the Cat and Hello Kitty, but just recently, as I say, it started making me kinda nauseated to see this name or that, slapped all over the merchandise.
I suppose that one of the main reasons for doing this is that products are copied so often. I can see putting a discreet, small logo in there somehow. But, slapping a big name or initials all over it, all the time?
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