What is Fashion?

Some people like to think they don’t follow fashion, or like fashionable clothes. They do! Fashion is apart of everybody's lifestyle, whether they like it or not.

People don’t like to be classed as ‘followers’, but without knowing it, they all secretly have something that they have seen and loved. So they go out, and they buy it.

It’s all about glamour, beauty and style. Having your own unique style is fabulous, but nowadays can people really have that? What do you wear each day? Do any of us really plan on what we are going to wear each day? Or is it the case of how we feel each morning, whether we feel fat in the dress that once made us look skinny? Or the jeans that now make your legs look too short? Fashion is all about how you feel, what you look like and what makes you stand out from everybody else.

Keeping up to date with the fashion trends doesn’t always mean you have to go out and spend a fortune. It gives you variety in what you want to wear and what you can afford to wear. There are no rules for what you should and should not wear. Fashion is so diverse; you can just be yourself and feel comfortable with yourself without people judging you. It’s all about making that one statement. “This is me, get over it”.

Fashion is a lifestyle, everybody has a lifestyle, and with this lifestyle we try and ‘cheat’ our way into making other people think we can be better looking than we really are, or ‘cooler’ than we are, so in a way we are projecting this false image of ourselves. Fashion can turn into an obsession if we don’t ‘play’ it right.

Celebrities, peers, music, work and even sports can influence how we dress. It seems as though every aspect of life in itself can influence fashion. Young girls in particular are influenced by models and celebrities. Wanting to look like them in lots of different ways, whether it's having the same hair styles, dress sense and even the same dress sizes. Girls and even boys feel they have to look a certain way to be accepted. Having this problem around the world, this can lead people into eating disorders and not being happy in your own body.

How many times have you picked up your favorite fashion magazine and have read an article about how women should have this amazing image of themselves and how they can now be happy with their curves? Not very often. The media is a huge industry and they give out this type of 'normative influence' to teens around the world. The industry can move on from encouraging people to be a shape which nature never intended them to be, therefore the media will just continue to form a view of what young people should look for in the world of 'fashion and beauty'. The world is seen to be only populated by 'thin girls' and not 'real girls'.

The industry is endless nowadays, you have; fashion models, fashion designers, celebrities who have found their fame through fashion, and even now, you can do a degree in fashion at university. Fashion is seen as the backbone to what is now one of the most lucrative industries in the world.