Fashion, No Imitation

When it come to fashion, the first picture jumping in my mind is that many people wearing the same clothes and hairstyles in the street. People want to be fashionable, but at the same time they want to be different from others.

Here is a question. Let’s suppose this winter the most fashionable thing in the world is doomed to be red hair. Then there must be a fashion setter who is authoritative and popular enough to pull the trigger and set the trend. He is very aware that this can create a subtle feeling in people and make himself look good. He is the creator. He has thought about it and put it into act. Then the second people sees him and begin to appreciate that. Instead of thinking about what will suit him this winter, he is caught by the fascination that this red hair will, too, make him look good. Then the red hair population grows. The No.10,000 people who make his hair red thinks, I don’t care whether red suits me or not: this is beside the point. The point is, if I am to keep my hairstyle which belong to the last season, I look silly, the safest thing is the change as everyone else did. He stops thinking long time ago.

If that is how fashion works, it means stealing other people’s idea and put them on ourselves without initiative. And I will dismiss it as sheer nonsense. But if fashion means being different, I think it will make more sense.

In order to be special, we need to think in the first place. We must not steal other’s ideas. We refuse to be parasite of others. We depend on ourselves to make every decision concerning our life. We refuse to be controlled by other people.

I think that is what makes us different and fashionable. To be our own person. No imitation.