2012-08-25, 03:24 PM
Yes. I guess I wasn't clear on that. Certainly there is fashion art.
However, contrary to what FrozNLite said earlier, not every single person has to be a fashion artist to look acceptable.
The initial question was, "why do people respect fashion art less than other art?" and the simple answer is: it's capricious, and it's oppressive.
Capricious:
It seems entirely random every new season.
Unlike, say, music, where you can hear the trends evolve from each other (and your own taste can change gradually along with them), fashion's trends for this season are unrelated to the last one.
And crazy runway fashion seems like some sort of contest of "how absurd can you make a model look?"
Perhaps paradoxically, too much creativity makes art appear too frivolous to be respectable.
Oppressive:
The feel the public gets, justified or not, that the new trends are dictates we must adhere to or be denounced as "sooo last year!"
However, contrary to what FrozNLite said earlier, not every single person has to be a fashion artist to look acceptable.
The initial question was, "why do people respect fashion art less than other art?" and the simple answer is: it's capricious, and it's oppressive.
Capricious:
It seems entirely random every new season.
Unlike, say, music, where you can hear the trends evolve from each other (and your own taste can change gradually along with them), fashion's trends for this season are unrelated to the last one.
And crazy runway fashion seems like some sort of contest of "how absurd can you make a model look?"
Perhaps paradoxically, too much creativity makes art appear too frivolous to be respectable.
Oppressive:
The feel the public gets, justified or not, that the new trends are dictates we must adhere to or be denounced as "sooo last year!"