Fashion is not just clothes. It is a visual presentation of our aesthetic choices, gender expressions, social statements and cultural/religious reflections etc. Dressing the body can be a decision of how we want others to perceive ourselves without any verbal contact. By wearing this visual language, we get to either express our true identity, or live an imagined persona.

The relationship between fashion and social expression reminds me of Thom Browne – an American designer who revolutionized the men’s suit. His suits are in different shades of grey, superbly tailored with cropped close-to-body jacket, and hemmed slim pants that stop right about your ankles, and last, with his signature touch of red-blue-white grosgrain tape on the back collar. The whole look gives people a strike of sharpness and seriousness. In Joanne Entwistle’s book Real Bodies – A Sociological Introduction, the chapter “The Dressed Body” discovers the social relationship of dress and expressions. Entwistle states “Dress is routinely attended to as part of the ‘presentation of self in everyday life’. We all have a code of dress and these impose particular ways of being on bodies in such a way as to have a social and moral imperative to them”. Thom Browne’s sharp looking suits embody wearers with a sense of discipline, for which himself is most known. In an interview from i-D magazine, he said “I wear the same grey suit, and eat the same breakfast everyday,” he asserts, “and that will always be part of what I do.” He also revealed his wardrobe that he owns no casual clothes, not even a pair of jeans. His code of disciplinary is reflected in his everyday life, his own way of dressing and his designs.