Thoughts
Posted on | March 9, 2010 | No Comments
Staying up on fashion and the latest trends is hard enough for the average woman (or man). We shuffle threw fashion magazines, watch models on the catwalk, and see hollywood and rock stars on the red carpet; always with the partial intent on seeing what’s the latest and trendiest items to add to the shopping list this month.
Now with the magazines piling up on the coffee table or the stack growing on the back of the toilet, what was once one persons original thought is now a statement that a multitude of women walk around proclaiming. From the minds of people like Miranda Priestly, the editor of Runway (from The Devil Wears Prada), trailing down into our living rooms, our style is created.
“This… ’stuff’? Oh… ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn’t it, who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff.”
It all comes from someone, somewhere and we find it, claim it, wear it. We identify ourselves by what we wear, by who we wear,… But everyone, everywhere is inspired by someone’s original idea.
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Hi! I'm Becca Coe and I'm a photographer and graphic designer living in the Baltimore/Washington area of Maryland. I love traveling, photography, and designing just about anything.
I like to spend hours with my camera or tinkering around on my computer, designing something new. I like a clean and crisp look to anything I put my time into, but also with a creative eclectic feel. If it stands out it stays.
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