How Did You Get Interested In Fashion?

[colourmefashion]

when i was younger i used to always dress up and walk around like a mini model, and when i was at my nans i used to put her shoes on and be a little diva i guess. lol. but one day when i was in grade 5 or 6 i just drew random clothes and since then i designed stuff. but never made any of it yet. and id like too. and now all i wanna be is a fashion designer. so after highschool im applying to alot of design schools in NY and that area.

 

[Tatika]

my grandma and mom are very classic and fashonable and just so confident...IMO. i was always brought up to do my best face forward in all aspects fo my appearance..regardles of the size of my paycheck..but started really geting into it when i started watching "sex and the city"- it made my fashion brain gears start working and i started venturing, being creative and whatnot with my fsashion sense....thos two big things really got my ball rolling

 

[mme]

I remember when I was really small, walking in malls, I would always wonder why everyone carried the same bag with the same logo. It drove me nuts. Everytime someone passed me by with *that* logo, I would just cringe thinking "Why would anyone want to carry such a horrible bag?!" My mom had one. I thought all women were crazy.

Now that I think of it, my curiosty for the Vuitton monogram was probably the beginning of it all I think I've always been interested in fashion, it's just always been at the back of my head until now. That must explain why as a child, I had an odd fascination with huge walk-in closets.

 

[cinnamon-toast]

I've been reading Vogue since age 10. I had subscriptions for Vogue, Bazaar and Elle by age 12. Thx mom!

 

[Kwing]

At the age of 10 till now I always was fascinated by fashion. When I was 10 I didn't care how I looked, but I was always wondering why some people wore vans,quiksilver and more of that skatingstyle and other people always wore armani or replay.
I was really inspired when I saw musicclips from The Strokes and The Libertines... I really love their style, although it looks like they really don't care what they're wearing Skinny jeans, blazers, ties etc. I love it

 

[jenmkat]

my family wasn't very well off when i was a kid so getting our back to school clothes consisted of walmart and dollar stores. Not really what I wanted. $20 was too much for any sort of clothing item. I think after I got into college I wanted to live that life of having nice clothes and being able to buy what I wanted and look how I wanted. I always looked at magazines and envied girls that had a style I wanted but couldn't put together with the clothes I had. I ended up rebelling against all of that in high school and went totally thrift-store punk rock so I told myself (and almost believed) that I didn't care about fashion. Now, though, I want to look well put together and have clothes that last because I don't get to go shopping that often.

 

[lordevan]

i like really tall skinny girls. i was browsing through style.com and was amazed that some of the high fashioned models there were better looking than any of the victoria's secret/sport illustrated models that i have ever seen before. at first it was just appreciating hot girls, now i pay attention to the cloth for conversational purposes.

for mens fashion, i became interested when I realized that for desinger cloth, the length dont change with size. , for the first 21 years of my life I didn't really care about what I wore. I'm really tall skinny, 6'4.5" 148lbs, so I kinda assumed that it's impossible for me to find fitted cloth, so I just wore gym cloth all the time cuz it's comfy. but then I found out about Dior Homme through this forum, and the old collections were cloth that made skinny men proud to be skinny men.

 

[blackman]

I grew up in the eighties(oh the hideous pictures) ... and my mum gave me the best advice 'why pay to be a walking bill board for a company' that has stuck with me for a long time. Fashion, in my school, was about the labels and it wasn't until my mum enlightened me did I open my eyes to the true meaning of style. It is very hard to seperate merchandising, and advertising from fashion these days and I am so glad my eyes are open.

 

[kissmesweet]

I've always been in love with fashion for as long as I can remember... well, maybe it wasn't that long, given i'm still in HIGH SCHOOL.... anyway, I love clothes. My mum is obsessed with clothes. she has a room-size closet for her shoes and bags fetish. She has a certain liking to Marc Jacobs, since when he first came out. Her clothes are pretty cool, maybe sometimes too eccentric and feminine for me -- but the designs are always cool.

I remember when I was younger, my best friend Alix and I would raid our parents' rooms and get all the clothes out and put on like a fashion show ourselves and get our cameras and take photos of each other. Later, we'd go to her house and steal her dad' video camera and film each other walking down a runway... or the corridors of our houses. pretty sweet, eh?

I've always liked dressing up my Barbies too... I've grown out of that of course.

 

[sweetcandylove]

my parents owned a retail store. so i've been very much into a whole lot of fashion style since i'm really young. i do remember when i was like 5 i think, i'd go with my mum to the boutique and play dress up with the clothes.

 

[jpolla]

Ermmm with me??? My dad has always been into well cut clothes and tailored suits etc. This kinda made me like clothes that look good and just generally looking at men's amgazines (NOT FHM! EWWW and just becomin interested in the whole world of fashion. Sorry not a particular interesting story. xxx

 

[ShuggaStiletto]

It was always in me..I don't know what it is. I was a tomboy growing up...yet I like to be girly, it's an odd combination. For school I will mostly wear jeans/sweatshirt very boring....but going out I will always plan my outfits and go shopping for weeks ahead trying to find great pieces. Fashion magazines definitely propelled my interest...and the fact that I'm artistic, and very into the art world..I want to go to art school, and fashion is just as much art as a Monet or Picasso in my eyes..

 

[shadow]

I remember being 11 and picking up a french Vogue from the hairdresser's in Spain. It was a whole world that opened before my eyes . The fashion editorial featured Caroline of Monaco in a convertible. Pure undiluted glamour! Vogue was different, from age 16 I used to save up for the magazine and hide it from everyone, read the issues with so much fruition that I csn still recite whole paragraphs after 20 years. Helped me enormously with my knowledge of foreign languages. An education!

 

[mini me]

I've been interested in fashion since I was a very little gal...I got some painting books about dolls when I was 9 and since then I've been fascinated in colour and clothes

 

[theridiculous]

I became more interested in fashion after I started dancing.

 

[fashionista-ta]

Hmmm ... I am not completely sure. I was always interested in aesthetics, and offended by ugly things It was the 70s and there was lots to be offended by I guess it was an outgrowth of that, plus I have an aunt who was into fashion ... she gave me catalogs & lookbooks & commented on what I was doing with my clothes.

 

[sill]

I started getting interested in fashion in the 7th grade, when I was very interested in mary-kate olsen.. So I searched on the internet and found olsenpapworld and became a member there and then I saw that awesome Pistachio balenciaga bag and I fell in love with that, searched where it came from (i didn't really know of any designers back then, so i thought it would cost a reasonable amount of money ) and found out that the designer was balenciaga and it just grew from there..

 

[missophisticated]

I believe I became a lot more interested in the beginning of senior year of high school because I was thinking about going to colleges and I knew I didn't want to sit in a university. So I gave fashion school a thought b/c I've always really loved fashion but never thought of it as a career and then I started thinking maybe it can be a career and it started off from there

 

[sofabar]

My first 17 magazine when I was 14.

 

[theprettycat]

when i realized the way you dress can influence pratically everything in your life. i think i was about 14