ironic, isn’t it?
How everyone is trying to move away from the typical and be ‘different’.
But isn’t it ironic how everyone is trying to be the same kind of different?
People often try to emulate the style of people like Lady Gaga and Agyness Deyn; two particular examples of people that have rocked the fashion world with their originality.
Well perhaps when Gaga or Aggy steps out in a completely original outfit, one that may even be very risque- it is a bit of a shock to the fashion world. In a good way of course.
So this ‘groundbreaking’ new look is published in every magazine and a young teenage girl tries to emulate that outfit, hoping for the same attention - the same shock factor. Hoping to be different.
But she is completely oblivious to the fact, that so is everybody else. So, if everyone is now wearing that outfit, how on earth does it make them different?
You simply cannot be different by copying a ‘different’ outfit.
You simply cannot be different by trying to fit into somebody else’s definition of ‘different’.
So if we’re all trying to be different, I guess it just makes us all exactly the same; which brings us back to square one.
So, I would like anyone reading this, to think about all of the pressure to be some perfect fashionista. Pretend its all writing on a piece of paper.
Now destroy that piece of paper — tear it, rip it, crumple it, stamp on it. Then throw it out the window. Or burn it. Whatever.
Wear what the hell you want to wear. Be different in your own way. Screw what everyone else thinks. Wear what you want to wear, and not what you think somebody else would want you to wear.
That is utimately, in the end, the only way to actually be an individual. After all, you can’t buy originality in any store.
Love always,
Jesse. xx
