fashion, the crowd mentality?

Personally I think todays fashion is just plain ugly, no style, no flair. Sort of like "let's see who can dress the worst.. hey ya that's cool!" Right now you've got all the rehab honeys that seem to be deciding what's cool. Lindsay Lohan (the passed out princess), Brittany Spears (the bald baby makin' babe), Nicole Richie (the anorexic pretender to the thrown), and of course their bestest buddy (jailbird-to-be) Paris Hilton. EWWWWWW I mean really Ewwwww! I saw her on tv the other day wearing a gold sequined tank top with silver spandex jeans... ohhhhh pullleeeezz. Thought I was gonna have to break out the eye bleach. Ya, these are the girl's I'd want to imitate, NOT! I swear there is no such thing as elegance or class anymore. Ok that was my imitation of Joan Rivers, how'd I do? LOL.

Many followers of fashion seem to be hypnotised by their "heroes". They wear it, so it must be so cool. And then you have some fads that are downright dangerous... Skin-and-bone catwalk models for instance. I have had clients who are reluctantly dragged to see me by concerned relatives that are near to needing drip-feeding, yet look in the mirror and see a "fat" person looking back at them. The "hypnosis" has become so powerful so as to make them hallucinate. Who decides? Big business, the media, the government - all play their hand in getting us to swallow what we *think* we want. Bu would we choose it without influence? But judge not... Not easy though! :-)

i think it's the person wearing or using it. For me making things fashionable doesn't mean you have to go with the current trend. Being fashionable is being original, it's your own style, the expression of your individualism mixed with ones charisma.

I think fashoin has more to do with the trend.People do get bored of the same things & when something newcomes they get attracted.That is why old trends do come back again & again.

Simply put - the fashion industry decides. They decide what's hot and what's not - and then shove it down out throats. They use models, magazines, television, and a myriad of marketing campaigns to make us believe that something is the hottest trend. We believe them, and buy the product, whether we really like it or not (sometimes we don't like it and buy anyway because we think we'll fit in). Amazing, isn't it? The music industry works the same way!

I've often wondered if it is the fashion designers who decide. The older I get, the less I care about fashion. I'm more into what is practical and as long as it looks ok.

I'll tell you, by some of the fashion trends we've seen I can guess whomever it is they're completely blind! LOL What's even stranger is that the "catwalk in fashion" versus the "real people in fashion" are so totally different. So why exactly do they do the catwalks? If nobody really wears them, even most of the stars shy away because they're usually so "out there", then why bother? Why not do ... now get this... fashion shows with REAL clothes and REAL fashion that we will be seeing!? Naw... way to normal. LOL

Lately, I think it's individual decision making things fashionable. Some types are better worn on certain people and I think THAT'S fashionable!

For me, to be fashionable means to be updated to the latest fashion trend. I think if anyone mix and match their dress, it can also called fashionable. The fashion designer get to decide what fashion is in and what is not.

I think most of the time popular movie stars or just popular people most seen in society {on tv}, are the ones viewed as fashionable, so whatever new thing they wear is called the new fashion trend. I don't really know much about fashion though, cause I just wear whatever, usually anything cheap and that feels comfortable on me works just fine for me.

After seeing some of the trends out their today like the revealing clothing that young girls wear and the bagging clothing the boys are wearing, I would not be surprised if there was a chimp somwhere collecting royalties for every ripped pair of jeans or sarcastic t-shirt.