- How does fashion relate to or reflect conformity? What are examples of instances or ways fashion encourages people to look the same? Find quotes in the text and write them down in addition to your answer.
It seems like fashion is there to encourage people to have their own style and be creative, but trend is the word that going backward to conformity. When a person creates a style, people admire the style. Everyone wants to be the person, so they all imitate the style. Then, everyone starts to look the same.
According to Abe’s interview answers, fashion is being more and more repeatable. “I thought it was a little boring, you know, it didn’t really stand out, we’ve seen a lot of trench coats already this week”
- How can fashion be used as a way of expressing individual identity? Find quotes in the text and write them down in addition to your answer.
A person’s outside appearance is the first impression for others, so fashion is the first of all being evaluated by others. It’s always harder to know a person’s inner personality, but easier to see his fashion. What kind of clothes he wears can reflect to his thought. “Abe was 13 years and 3 months old, and he did not need to be told, by Virgil Abloh or anyone else, to look at himself. He knew exactly how he looked.” A person can choose his own fashion. It’s how he wants others to see him, so the way being recognized is his identity.
