“Fashion moves in space and time. It shares in the complexity of physics and mathematics, making patterns and networks, forming maze and constellation. Through its forms we have an opportunity to reunite art and science and to heal the rift of the two cultures.”
This quote talks about fashion as something more than superficial aesthetic but as something that is deep and complex. It is constantly changing with the space and time, and the emergence of every form of it has a logical and thorough history, or a theory, behind it. However, people nowadays are looking at fashion separately from science, viewing it as something utterly shallow. Although I agree with the point that “fashion moves in space and time”, since fashion is constantly changing with time, and it has a mirror-effect of what society looks like at a specific time in history, I disagree that art and science have to “heal the rift of the two cultures.” Even though I believe that art emerged from science, yet its continuous development over the past centuries has matured it to become something that is beyond science and logic. Art is no longer a grid, a pattern, a symbol to display science in a physical form, it became something that derives from emotions, the deepest point from human mind.
“Fashion is intensely personal, in the same way that poetry is intensely personal. It is a medium through which personal stories can be told, memories relived and futures foretold.”
This quote simply says that fashion is extremely personal. Everyone who presents fashion is presenting their own state of mind. It is ingrained with its presenter’s personal stories and memories. Fashion should not be publicized. It does not need to be judged as right or wrong, or even good or bad, because fashion is personal, which should be diversified. I strongly agree with the point that fashion is personal. Fashion designers infuse their personalities and history into their design, and fashion consumers resonate with the message that these fashion pieces are designed to deliver, thus they act like a “billboard” to display these ideas and thoughts. However, I also believe that fashion is rather a bad medium to tell the personal stories or forecast the future events. “Personal” is rather a broad term to use in this kind of ambiguous and vague circumstances. Because the physical form of fashion is so “public,” which tends to create criticisms and contraries because it can be understood so differently between distinct populations.
