At what age did you start getting into fashion?

[lmelanie]

i didnt start getting into fashion until I moved to NY for college..so i was about 19ish..which was only about 3 years ago.

 

[BerlinRocks]

i first get interested into fashion world around 10-12yrs old... first time I saw kate moss... first i was what we now call a modelizer (that's right, non?) and when I was 14-15yrs old, I started to be really interested into fashion...
but when i was a kid i used to love playing with clothes on my friends' Barbie. if it's important...
and now... i'm 23.... omg!

 

[GorguzLaChick]

when i was six

 

[danimal]

My story is pretty different. I'm 26 now but 5 years ago I was a college boy in abercrombie. One day I weighed myself and realized: I'm 5'8 and 170 pounds, I'm fat. So I started going to the gym every day and 6 months later I weighed 120. None of my clothes fit anymore and no matter where I looked I couldn't find anything that fit. I couldn't even find jeans that fit, the smallest jeans I could find were a size 30 and those fell right off me. So I deciced to head to Chicago, found a pair of size 27 jeans at Diesel and a great SA who told me to go down the street to Barneys. I was blown away. All I could afford was one Helmut Lang shirt but I was hooked. I started looking up designers... and I found Dior Homme. That was it, I was obsessed. 5 years later here I am in downtown Chicago in my Balenciaga, Dior, and Lanvin. My old college friends still don't get how your average straight guy from Indiana ended up obsessed with designer clothes, and neither do I really, but whatever. I love it.

 

[Elinhs]

My story is pretty different. I'm 26 now but 5 years ago I was a college boy in abercrombie. One day I weighed myself and realized: I'm 5'8 and 170 pounds, I'm fat. So I started going to the gym every day and 6 months later I weighed 120. None of my clothes fit anymore and no matter where I looked I couldn't find anything that fit. I couldn't even find jeans that fit, the smallest jeans I could find were a size 30 and those fell right off me. So I deciced to head to Chicago, found a pair of size 27 jeans at Diesel and a great SA who told me to go down the street to Barneys. I was blown away. All I could afford was one Helmut Lang shirt but I was hooked. I started looking up designers... and I found Dior Homme. That was it, I was obsessed. 5 years later here I am in downtown Chicago in my Balenciaga, Dior, and Lanvin. My old college friends still don't get how your average straight guy from Indiana ended up obsessed with designer clothes, and neither do I really, but whatever. I love it.

awesome

 

[homeboy]

For me it probably started when I was an infant and played with my sister's barbie dolls.

Side note: I'm straight as a ruler

 

[joobie_Bb]

I've always loved fashion, but i think i really started getting into it last year, when i started fashion college, then i started having more interest not only about current trends, but future trends and designers etc.

 

[Allius]

I was into fashion about 14 and didn't start applying it until 17. I didn't dress the way I wanted to, not only because the clothes didn't fit my age but I didn't want to feel overdressed when compared to everyone else in school.

 

[Zoely]

i guess that i am started with the age of 15. I didn't really find my style, and i thought that i had to lose weight and by searching on the web i saw Kate moss and i really thought that she was beautifull. Also because she is short like me and she show that even if she is short she can wear those beautiful design clothes!
And now at home i am making my own collection on paper...

 

[Mantha]

I really started to get into fashion just a few years ago,i was 20 years old exactly.I very tasteless in clothes before...

 

[TommyJJ]

About 15, until then I was a skater with long hair and baggy clothes but now at 17 its all changed!

 

[ibimus]

When I was about....3.
I was obsessed with Barbie, and mostly her clothing. I was very particular about her hair, makeup (I used to draw on 'better' makeup with markers.), and clothing, and I was not afraid to sneer at friends'
dolls who had shorn heads or raggedy clothing.
I was SUCH a Barbie snob. I never owned Doctor Barbie or Teacher Barbie becuase I didn't like their clothes. So I bought the funky pop stars, ballroom and partyers instead. And everything had to be from Mattel. I never dressed my dolls in dollar store knock-offs.

And yeah. That was the start of my fashion obsession.

 

[farren fashion]

well, i'm eighteen. my obsession started around 15 yrs old. so only about three years ago. it started when i moved away from my overbearing father who wouldn't let me wear makeup and really shielded me from what he felt were "superficial" aspects. once i moved out and started discovering more about myself, i found that fashion really inspired me. it's been a journey. and it's just something fun to do. it's about all i do... hah.

 

[Eloise]

I've always cared how I looked (even when I was little) but I started following trends and such about four years ago.

 

[xEmma2k5x]

When I was about 16 and started earning my own money. I had to buy my own clothes from then on so I took more interest in it. I liked clothes and fashion before that but I never had a great interest in it because my mum would buy my clothes!

 

[Ybmug]

Two, nothing Im proud about really. I would cry and hide the clothes my mom would put on me if I didnt like them, she would go crazy. And still today when I ask her about my outfits she brings it up "Does it really matter what I think?!For love of God, I couldnt even decide what you would wear when you were two".

 

[mme]

I think that I've always known I wanted to be in fashion. In grade 5, I wanted to be an interior designer, but I think that was just so my family and I could accept the whole 'designer' thing. I was supposed to be the smart one in the family, the academic one, so why would I waste time in design? When I would go to the bookstore to buy home decorating magazines, I would actually be glancing at the fashion rack as I walked by. I thought, "One day I'll be tall enough and brave enough to reach up there, and grab one of those glossy magazines." I don't know, but up until now, I've been embarassed by fashion. I never wanted to admit that's what I wanted to do. I still am kind of embarassed. Eventhough I'm insanely obsessed, I don't openly admit it unless in front of my closest friends. I think I'm scared of rejection, because after all, "how could that short, little 'cute' girl be into fashion?!" "What does she know?!?" Yea, well, screw you. I realized that it's their problem if they thought I wasn't good enough, so one day I grabbed a fashion / interior decorating magazine with Tiiu on the cover, and the next week I reached for a Vogue with Daria on the front, and ever since then, fashion hasn't not been on my mind everyday (even though I am still afraid of rejection) .

Long story, short answer, so I guess my obsession has started now, 15.

 

[farren fashion]

^^ i still feel embarassed. when people ask me what i want to do or what i'm going to school for, i don't want to say the truth. going into fashion has such a negative connotation. people automatically think you're just going to be having a lot of fun and not working at all. my grandpa has given me hell for it. he wants me to be a nurse or a lawyer or something. the people i know never see it as a career. i hate that.

 

[mcflyandgemmafan]

i've always cared how i looked but i hadn't really got into fashion (as in, other than stuff at the mall, does that even count?) until I was eighteen. About a year ago, I remember seeing Gemma Ward on the cover of Teen Vogue and it immediately caught my eye. I loved her look and suddenly became more interested in fashion. I found the Fashion Spot, joined it, started buying more fashion magazines and trying to apply fashion to my own style and here I am today.

 

[naty]

Probably started when I was 13