2012-08-24, 02:45 PM
FrozNlite Wrote:The bottom line is that fashion is WORK. If you want to look good, you need to put the time into researching and experimenting with what looks good on YOU and YOUR body type. Note that I did not say money, because with the advent of fast fashion and the internet, looking put-together - not necessarily the most runway-trendy person, but put-together - isn't unreasonable for most people. And because there's an abundance of information on how-to for your individual self, to choose not to put in the effort is a statement of laziness, nothing more.
And there you have it. That is why people don't view fashion as art.
Art should not be work, or not that kind of work.
The artist works, the public consumes. We view, we listen, we like or dislike, but we don't have to work on it. We are not tested on it.
When the "art" of fashion is to come up with 8 or 10 different new trends each year and then make the public work to make them fit, that's not art. That's a capricious game of "Simon says".