I’d like to say I’m a kind of person who resists to specific dress code, for me, I prefer to dress in  limited colors (black & white) and certain dressing style (formal dressing), I definitely have lists in my mind recording the brands I appreciate or the style I try to avoid, also in my everyday life I’m always aware of the clothes I’m wearing and the feeling they have brought to me. I personally believe garments have enormous vitality, they’re documenting wearers’ stories therefore abandoning clothes is one of the most unforgivable practice.

After a seven-day document of my daily clothing, I found out the clothes I was wearing aren’t alluring anymore compared to the first time I saw them in stores while I was browsing my pictures, although they’re still clean and preserved in a good condition and they used to be the ones I desired so much that I have to save my budgets for time. I guess my clothes are starting to blend in my daily life after I purchased them, and wearing them no longer triggers my excitement – and I think this is one of the important reasons I keep pursuing new clothes. However, a new feeling has come to me within these clothes which is comfort.

Another discovery is my misunderstanding of my style: My friends kept telling me I dressed super formally then I naturally felt like the same way. However, while I was preparing my clothes for my internship, I recognized I was not able to find anything ‘professional’ out of my whole closet, instead, I’d like to describe my closet’s style as ‘playful’. I always want to wear whatever I want but there’re always limitations, I have to deal with the social relationship and take care of others’ perspective towards me. – Or Maybe because I’m just still not brave enough.

“I wanted to portray that feeling of first experiences with fashion, like a kid is experimenting with their look for the first time” – Jonny Johansson.

Acne Studio, a multidisciplinary luxury fashion house founded in the year of 1996, released a series of “genderless” propaganda/advertisement by featuring founder’s 11-year-old son Frasse  for its 2015 AW collection. This series of photographs not only challenges the traditional idea of  how people from specific gender are supposed to dress, but also the ages. In the photos, Frasse is wearing a long peach puff color wool coat with nipped waist, a pair of patent leather boots with silver chunky high heels and carrying a ladylike handbag. Acne Studios is trying to promote the concept that the new way of dressing is to experiment just as children do.

“Style fashion-dress as a system of concepts conveys a sense that people create their own ‘fashion statement’ but are ultimately constrained by what is available in the marketplace, by dress codes and social conventions, by political regimes and the like.” (Susan B. Kaiser, 2012) Indeed, our daily outfits are strictly limited by the surroundings- our society however while our society is developing significantly, people become more and more acceptable to rising ideas. In fashion, for instance, the boundary between genders tend to be more vague than any time, the idea of “Androgyny” is no longer unfamiliar. In my perspectives, fashion has no limitations, fashion is forgivable, and fashion is interested in every innovated possibilities that pop up in people’s everyday life. I have even imagined that any one is able to wear anything without judge in recent future.