Fashion...

I'm meaning fashion as in designers, fashion as a kind of art. In a thread on pirates being a fashion style this season, fashion got a bit of stick, so I started this poll to find out, what does VR think of fashion?
Personally I see it as an art, and I am interested in it. I don't follow it strictly or anything but I like to look at fashion magazines for inspiration for my art and my own style.

Discuss...

What I said in the other thread sums up my response to this :

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I'm not anti-fashion, that would be ridiculous, like being a 'goff' to be alternative for the sake of it. I love fashion. I read fashion magazines like Elle and Vogue too. I watch America's Next Top Model religiously and drool over the fashion shoots, especially the high fashion ones.

I'm anti-trend though, especially when everyone you see on the street looks the same, and then there is a difference

I see it as an art too, Jayne. But I tend not to follow it. And that's not because I'm trying to look different - I wear whatever suits me regardless if it's in or out of fashion. But the pretentious nature of the world of fashion, the elitist hype that surrounds it, is not to my taste, particularly.

Fashion is an art. A trend is crappy cause everyone else is wearing the same thing. I was having this discussion with my friends the other day actually, whence upon we realised we don't follow what is in fashion, we wear comfy stuff. I myself like t shirts and and baggies and my vans which are one day going to wear right through to the floor when I am happily skipping along in the street and I will fall to my knees and cry. But at the same time, I don't just limit myself to those clothes. I just wear what I like. Like my green shoes, they are sooooooo fabulous.
However, me aside, fashion is an art. So much work goes into it all, and yeah, basically they are amazing. I am drawing textures of wools and various other cool fabrics in detail for my annotated sketchbook, so I'm paying lots of attention to stuff at the moment.
As for fashion magazines, I read glamour, which isn't really a fashion magazine, but the stuff in there is amazing and some of the adverts are really cool to look at. I just don't wear the stuff they tell me to buy.

I don't really like fashion, it seems to encourage the wrong things like people losing loads of weight, spending loads of money, and bullying people for what they wear.
On the other hand, i can see how people would see it as an art form... just an unusual one.