What is Fashion?
At first, my understanding of fashion was simple, short. When someone ask me definition of fashion, I had always answered that fashion is the way to show own identity. It does not mean this answer is incorrect, but the problem is that is only answer I have. It means that I have I had only one dimensional thought about fashion, not an intensified thought. Since the beginning of the semester, I had learned many things about what fashion is. One of them is that fashion and culture always back. “Both fashion and culture simultaneously undergo continual change and continuity.” (Susan B. Kaiser“Fashion and Cultural Studies” page 12) The movie ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ has the background of 1960s, but lots of garments in this movie are similar with what people wear nowadays. The main character of the movie, Audrey Hepburn, wear items such as a pair of slacks, a pair of jean, a transparent lens sunglasses, and a burberry coat, which are trendy in current fashion world. I have already noticed that fashion always comes back but I have not know that culture also comes back with. Also I did not know that fashion and culture are closely connected and work together. Culture is changing by economy, new generation, or trend. When I was young, K-pop was new and affected adolescents. K-pop was the largest culture among young people. Many K-pop stars wore skinny jeans at that time, so lots of young people wore skinny jeans to being like K-pop star. And skinny jean became fashion in 2000s. It means that K-pop culture set the trend. Culture is fashion, Fashion is culture.
