In the words of Alexander McQueen ‘I don’t think like the average person on the street’. Everything we feel, touch, see, smell and taste can in some way be conveyed in fashion. Fashion is a sense of its very own. You can feel it, see it, smell it and in a way you can taste it. So when entering the mind of a fashion designer such as Alexander McQueen, what do we see, feel, smell or taste? The illusive thoughts that when brought into the true world that we live in, can be false. A mind can be unimaginative to brilliantly broad, innovating thoughts that have never before occurred. Some bizarre yet wonderful where we can all be taken to a dream world where through the eyes of a fashion designer can be seen parading down a catwalk on garments. Not just any garments, garments that are thought provoking, immediately striking to the eye! Just the fact of how a piece of fabric sculpted to fit the body can portray all these vivid thoughts is astounding. Dreams can both excite and shatter a person from the inside so how is it that they can be ‘put out there’ on a piece of clothing? Why do people buy fashion when thoughts of terror have been the theme? As a society do we unconsciously covet terror in fashion?
The Circle of life is one of life’s peculiars. We are born to live a life of whatever we make it. Sometimes life is cruel and unfair, other time’s life is wonderful and exciting. So to be a fashion designer where your legacy can live on through garments and accessories galore, you live on in your creations. A legacy is purely built on the life you’ve created for yourself; brilliance is something that can follow. To explain the brilliance of a fashion conscious mind would be merely an understatement. When fashion is your true love, it becomes the air you seek and breathe. Every deep breath gorged with molecules of insightful ideas flowing around the body, pumping these ideas to the mind bursting with excitement. An explosion of emotions awakens the senses, stimulating provocative thoughts. What can first seem like a complete equivocal idea can suddenly seem unmistakably blatant.
This is what fashion means to me. It is quite simply a desire, a drive, a yearning. To summarise it is a large part of my life and I wouldn’t have it any other way!
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