Monday, October 29, 2012


How Do You Define Fashion?
Kunika Toya

 Before I start to explore what is certain fashion or style in certain area, I would like to introduce definitions of what is fashion. Since people do not have all the same views, there are many ideas what fashions is.

“Fashion is something we deal with everyday.”[i]
 There are people who like to choose and think about what to wear and dress up; however, there are of course people who think opposite way: do not like to think or care about what they wear. Every morning people choose what to wear, and we ask questions to ourselves. Which tops goes with the pants? Which accessories should I put on? Which shoes and bags match with the clothing today? Even though people who do not care about what they are wearing, they think and ask questions about what to wear. Is it sunny or rainy? How cold or warm is it? And we all say about their liking of styles. Fashion is related to everyone even though they do not care about it. Everyone has different taste and liking, and even people who do not care about it would criticize if they met people whose style is not their taste.

“Fashion is what is in at the moment. It is temporary and has a limited time span.” [ii]
 Fashion is a trend and changes a lot. People get fashion ideas from movies, books, music or televisions.[iii] We look at magazines and get ideas of fashion from celebrities, and we look at music video and get ideas as well. For example, because of K-POP boom in Japan, a lot of Japanese magazines tend to pick up Korean style of make-ups; also, people including me tend to want to wear or follow that their favorite artists are wearing or their hairstyles. If you watch drama from decades ago, we probably see the style of clothing that people in drama is not fashionable at all, and you might see it as old-fashioned, but when you watch drama broadcasted in recent years, you do not really see the clothing as old-fashioned. Not only movie stars or musicians influenced what we wear, but also politicians and the Royal Family influence what we wear. [iv]The death of Princess Dianna affected to the world of fashion because her clothes were always on magazines. Also, in 17th century The French King Louis XIV spread his style of clothing such as velvets and extravagant laces to the people.[v] But is fashion only a trend?

“Clothes create a wordless means of communication that we all understand.”[vi]
 Fashion is like a language that expresses one’s feeling, culture or religious view. We dress up when we are happy and feel like dressing up. Sometimes people just do not care about clothing because they are upset and not felling like dressing up. Islamic people cover all the body except eyes[vii], and Korean people wear their traditional clothes on special events such as weddings.[viii]

“Fashion is self-satisfaction”[ix]
 What is your priority when you buy clothes or decide your next hairstyles? Is it that what your friends recommends you? We buy clothes because we like them, and we may think about what others say and recommends but the one who decide at last are ourselves, each of us. [x]People pick up their clothes by their own decision even though for people who do not think about it, they consider about what they going to do and how the weather is going to be and pick up their clothes. Also, do not care about what they wear means they are satisfied with how they look no matter how they look and what the trend is. In terms of this idea: “Fashion is self-satisfaction,”[xi] fashion should be based on what you like and what you think and feel in your heart.[xii]

 So what does the word fashion mean to you in personal? In my next blog entry, I am seeing fashion from deferent aspect, as a business.

[iv] Ibid
[v] Ibid

[x]Ibid

[xi]Ibid

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