Thursday, September 17, 2009  10:25 AM
Beautifully wrought fashion
This morning, NYdailynews.com somehow found its way into my browser and I finally paid my tribute to the currently ongoing New York Fashion Week as I popped little nuggets of chocolate into my mouth - note: the chocolate habit is very bad, I need to start kicking it but somehow endorphins are highly necessary while at work and the cartons of tudor gold lying around the office make it impossible to resist happiness.
Well, in particular, I was reading an article about Marc Jacobs' 80's look at fashion week as they drew inspiration from Whitney Houston's heydey. It's amusing because just yesterday over lunch, my intern asked me how fashion trends start and who decides it and I was trying my best to educate her with my puffed-up knowledge on the subject, much of which is just what I gathered from the powers of observation and deduction - not that I actually really knew.
Marc Jacobs' confirmed it though, fashion trends go round and round in cycles and there is never one set trend for the season, it's simply who comes up with something that hits the shops first and the rest of the brands follow suit, somehow. Like how super shoulders are in this season, and how I think anyone skinny should pull off that look - yet florals haven't gone away since its sudden inception in late 2007 - early 2008, and those gladiator sandals are still around, just that they've morphed into tamer versions and varying shapes. It's like a game of luck and chance on how long that particular trend will last.
I loved the Marc Jacobs collection, to say the least. Bubblegum peppy, all bright colours and mismatched patterns. It was all about hybrid stuff, bootie platform sneakers and lacquered neon strappy wedges, and what looked like the child of an espadrille and a Converse. To me, that's what fashion is. Breaking boundaries and not sticking to one boring archetype. Who said stilettos have to forever be stilettos, and boots boots, and sneakers made of rubber and thick soles? Fashion needs a change and a revamp, and we need to start breaking rules.
That being said, I admit it would be hard to wear a Marc Jacobs' get-up downtown in this country and not be stared and scrutinised to no end. If New York remains our goal with it being the financial centre of the world, maybe we should start taking a cue from its fashion statements.
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