about trends* the discussion

[xxkissbangxx]

Exactly. The "no-trend" trend. But everything is a trend these days so it doesn't matter. Just wear whatever.

 

[Sylphide]

Anti-trend trendsters seem to be the logical extension of "mainstream-alternative" fashion and music as well as hipsterdom. "Alternative" street trends seem to be filtering down more and more quickly- forums like this probably have a lot to do with it. Fortunately we can count on marketers to make us individuals (just like everyone else) I adore the paradox inherent in this. It's a fascinating phenomenon!

 

[jealous]

Love this thread. If we're really in a no-trend trend, which it seems we are, I'm terrified/intrigued to see what happens when it implodes. Strongly defined style tribes? A universal return to fashion "laws" (white shoes after labor day, one acceptable skirt length, etc)?

 

[Whitelinen]

I'd like to say; dress how you like. Doesn't always work though.This is a difficult subject!

 

[Artiste]

I love the sort of college trend (Ali McGraw style). I absolutely adore cute socks with heels. I have the best wedges and wear them with embroidered socks and have got so many compliments on them!

 

[Alliecat]

Wow - great thread. Perhaps the trend is in the 'individual'? I dont follow trends - unless they happen to be something that I already do - ie wide leg pants. A trend for me implies someone wearing something that doesn't help them to look their best (but then I guess that is subjective).

 

[roca3itch]

I like to think of a "trend" in two ways. First is the more longterm "trend"' like what the first poster was saying, the recognizing a certain look with a decade, the 'roaring twenties' thing, the Carnaby street bird/swinging sixties, the hippy 70's...it's the more gradual decade recognizability. The second is more short term...like trendy...the 'boho' thing or the Edie Sedgwick thing that we see more of today.
The 'problem' i think with modern fashion is there is too much of trendy and not enough of the gradual trend. If everything is trendy, then, eventhough you are doing a different thing every 6 months, nothing new happens. You might think, and a couple of people have said in this thread, that the quick, intense almost schizophrenic heating and cooling of styles is good for fashion because it gives you more options, but I feel like it limits it incredibly because it's not just a matter of 'everything is in' so you can have a big range in style, it's a matter of a few intense style that are in and then they are completly out and exhausted, and then a different vintage element is reused, so nothing new happens. I don't think there have been any great advances in fashion eventhough it seems like perfect time for it... It's like a horse with blinders on going around in circles...It's fueled by it-girls who peak and decline just as quickly, and the USweeklys. So it kinda kills individuality because a lot of 'individual' becomes fake and marketed to the masses. Style becomes bastardized and overdone..

It's all the Man, man.

 

[Whitelinen]

Great post! This is an interesting thread.

 

[roca3itch]

we need to bring this thread back!

 

[Couture_Tribe]

Great thread, thanks Roca3itch for bumping it back!

I think the anti-trend isn't going to get mainstream, it's only for people who wants to look different, and they get frustrated by all those trends, therefore they start to wear whatever they desire and ignore trends. IMO, trends is like a direction set for people to go, for people who are very insecure about themselves or very non-opinionated, they just try to wear what others wear to blend in fit in, a security blanket, a sense of where they belong, and that won't go away. As lt's a process for people to grow up to knwo who they truely are, YKWIM?

 

[sparklepink]

Women think they have a great variety of fashions from which to choose. Actually, the basic design is by one couturier--the age in which they live.

 

[roca3itch]

^do you think you could explain that a bit further?...i think your saying that the time in which a woman exists is what truely creates the fashions she wears... if so don't you think...and this could just because we're too close to our own times to seperate our eye from it yet, that fashion has changed greatly in the last decade and that there isn't really a defining image for this new generation... i'd love to here you go more in depth but I like your point!

 

[BettyCooper]

Maybe we can't see it now because we're too close to it. With time we will look back on the naughties and recognize what made them unique. Its funny though, how through the lens of time things can look different than when you actually experienced it! I guess thats why some scientists say the passage of time is an illusion.


This has been deep thoughts for Thursday Sept. 07!