One
would wonder what fashion has to do with nature. Nature is the sum total of a
thing; the very qualities and characteristics by which a thing is recognized.
What
then is the nature of fashion?
Shall
we say that the true nature of fashion is dependent on the person creating
her? Maybe not. Fashion, though not restricted to what we put on our body and
how that makes us look, has her nature.
In
her natural state, fashion is meant to add beauty and style to our dressing and
our way of doing things. Over time, people started using fashion to achieve
some other purposes. This new approach to fashion completely bastardized her
nature and affected her very essence. Once her original and true nature was tampered
with, her beauty was gone, and what was left of her was the shadow of her
former self.
The
beauty of fashion is in its essence which is to add glamour and style to
clothing.
What
is fashion not?
Someone
has once said that on our way to becoming who we must be, we might sometimes imitate
people who are ahead of us in the path which we have chosen. We may also need
to adjust and re-adjust before we become. But, what happens when we decide to
take up another’s image forgetting who we are while hiding under the cover of ‘facial
enhancement’? Do we call that fashion too? I hope not.
Fashion
does not require us to stop being who we are to become another, it rather
requires us to continue being who we are in a unique and beautiful way.
We become better by improving on
who we already are rather than trying to become another person.
