/fa/ - Fashion

How come no one ever considers this? You see it all the time with celebrities, they're dressed up for events and everyone says they look stunning but outside the machine they wear sweat pants and flip flops because that's who they really are.

It takes an immense amount of bravery and integrity to dress for yourself, especially when most people will think that you look like shit.

It's not an issue of being unable to dress for others it's a conscious decision not to. Speaking personally there's little to learn if you dress for others. That means taking into consideration everyone else's aesthetic preferences and putting aside your own. It often means toning it down and avoiding experimentation. Almost every day I try to combine my wardrobe in ways that I have never done before. A lot of times it does look like shit but I learn from it. Not to mention when it doesn't look like shit it means I've discovered something new about fit or silhouette or proportions or fabrics or colour. If I didn't dress for myself I would never experiment, I would never dare to look bad, and I would never learn.

As a designer my body is a living sketch pad, artists and other creatives should be able to get this. Imagine if you walked around with your rough sketches and plastered on the front of your shirt. That's what people like Twerk are doing. That's their craft, it's their medium, and with clothing like any medium the only way you can learn is to fail. The difference is clothing has to be worn to be understood so the failure is public.

Twerk is young, he's learning, and failing, and growing. You can laugh now because he's like that one kid who took gymnastics and looked retarded and kept falling on his ass but 10 years later when he's graceful as fuck and can do standing back flips and gets roles in kung-fu movies you'll all be wishing you joined up with him instead of sitting on the side lines and laughing because you didn't have the balls to experiment and be shit at something.