I suppose in the beginning of the semester I my notion of fashion was “anything can be fashion.” I still believe that, however, my notion of what defines what is fashionable has changed. Like the acceptance of men wearing women’s clothes and women wearing men’s clothes, fashion is ever changing. And how the general public accepts fashion has also changed. “In other words, he’s not a man in transition (that’s been done before, when Riccardo Tisci put a transgender model, Lea T, in his fall 2010 women’s ads) or a man wearing clothing that looks as if it could be worn by either gender.” Gender in fashion in ever changing and fashion doesn’t have to constrict itself to just male and female fashion. Fashion is an ever changing medium of self expression that even it’s construct of age changes. It used to be that, “There’s the disconnect: On the one hand, fashion pays endless aesthetic homage to youth; on the other, it remains firmly in the thrall, and power, of the mature. Even for an industry that has made something of an art form out of holding contradictory ideas at the same time (loving both pelts and pets, for example; showing spring/summer in autumn/winter), this is hard to reconcile.” Though the revolution of older fashion can be attributed to “Add the shrinking spending power of the employment-challenged younger generation, and fashion’s sudden embrace is shaping up to be a bona fide trend.” This basically means that young people don’t have as large of a spending allowance as the older class.

I don’t think this course changed my understanding of fashion, I still think fashion can be anything, rather it’s broadened my horizon of what fashion means. That fashion doesn’t have to just be for people of my age group and women at that. I can also now tell the difference between style, clothes, and fashion. They’re like rectangles and squares, fashion is clothes but clothes are not fashion. Style involves clothes, but style doesn’t mean fashion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/fashion/jaden-smith-for-louis-vuitton-the-new-man-in-a-skirt.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Funbuttoned&_r=0