[Reserved] those years, we were chasing Fashion!
October 18, 2011
those years, we were chasing Fashion!
by: Li Guanyi Kevin Lee
Fashion is what? Popular and fashionable for me, is the most abused words in recent years.
abuse that I have to look at the word, we are talking about the recent What is fashion? But not serious if the theory, but in one second become famous princess funny way Hold out sister live in the new topic. In line to see this very popular funny shape, but the film caused a pandemic, a whole back to the beginning of my exposure to popular 15-year-old youth period, that period of fashion victims!
I remember the 1980s, Taiwan economy is a long red and designer brands just entering the Taiwan market period, when the next higher I, the first thing to buy this life and popular brand is the slightest Comme des Garcons (I am glad it is still very Hold brand is maintained to the present scene, if the first is for the Pierre Cardin, I might not write it!) I also remember the first time, took my parents about nearly two million, it was ordinary people months salary it! I do not know why I would like to like obsession can buy at 400 or 300 McDonald lunch money, money used to buy a like change clothes and make up a floral cloth clothes? Possible only because her friends say this is Fashion! So I do not understand the popular, this entered the no return. The next high school, just as addicted as I continue to cheer when the whole of Taiwan Fashion Xiaoya and Sunrise Department Store. Every time off school uniform and glasses, as Superman incarnations as, anxious to find a degree of self-identification, I will immediately put these designers blessing over the new clothes, walking with the wind at the time of Taipei Fashion shuttle the place. Label each piece of clothing as spell-like confusion to me, so I think the works of these designers will be put on me becomes higher, variable handsome, change supermodel. However, they never imagined, accidentally under the age of 16 years that I really turned into a supermodel! And I firmly believe it is Fashion spell effect, so it is even more convinced, even as the general paranoia of the cult worship. I remember when my mother asked me, always with a smile: “crown Yi ah, you do not save money to buy clothes so exaggerated, is to get what? They can not be winners, why so serious?” I can not answer, because then I sure is crazy! However, the filial piety of me, because my mother inspired this sentence, and finally in 2002 at the annual Hong Kong Fashion event, get the best taste in clothes Top Ten Award. I jokingly call my mother once said: “Mummy, I wear clothes winning it! These years of return on investment!” I think my mother must think of my life studying this popular course, should I get mad right? Ha ha! Indeed, I think so, because the circle is not mad but also on the table it does not end!
When a person has spent millions of first ten million or even go abroad to receive a good education, learn special skills will get good knowledge, technology or a diploma is worth showing off. I go through the baptism of the hard work of numerous designers, with no concept of total parents to pay school fees for my Prodigal, I completely changed the taste of true … but in addition to getting better, but also to change expensive! Because I seem to fall into a bottomless abyss, always think less is always a suit of clothes, a pair of shoes, no excuse can be used to lag behind the others. I was, more and more clothes, but less and less self-confident, always feel that the clothing did not wear Fashion, less like Superman cape and red underwear that. Only because all the popular advertising and reports are not enough to remind us how perfect, Fashion brands continue to kidnap after my self-confidence, let me pay to redeem it. All the information I am convinced that loyalty to the Fashion rebel goblet Xuan Ыo I recruit the perfect look, let me superior. Popular because it was like a beautiful description of heaven, and I was completely hypnotized. Finally, Fashion I get? I have been asked at that time only 20 years old himself! Later, I found that I could have bought a house the money to do public charter, all fall into the blind faith of the popular, but I still can not find the correct answer What is Fashion. So I decided to betray extremely disappointed I was in Taiwan popular belief, resolutely moved to Paris to find the truths of the faith, because they say there is its birthplace, where not only the pursuit of fashion, there is greater knowledge about , is the advanced version of the popular: fashion. So I took my passion, could have the money to buy a house in exchange for a bunch of fashion moved to the fashion capital: Paris.
fashion with a Taiwan-style blind worship of loyalty Chu B degree, in Paris, I have every day excited to explore the fashion message, as pious men light linen Yi Pan angry ふ example should Curui B Cang Ying Chu Xian Heuimengxiemu Jiaojuanzhuoyong Wen r yet! I am learning French, I continue to work to buy a designer dress, I took as followers of scripture-like enthusiasm, to buy books to study numerous magazines, I struggled every year to participate in hundreds of field size of the brand fashion show and exhibition, I believe I will find the truth of the Paris fashion. I also entered in the 160-year history of the French Institute of Clothing Technology ESMOD continue to study the faith. Classes at the same time, I started out purchasing, to reach a wider range of popular brands, and then learn about commercial Hey saddle blanket behind with Jin H Yen Huan Sheng Bian W learned more in-depth, more understanding of the design process and business operation, the I got tired of the so-called Fashion. I found in Taiwan are too skin to see the Fashion Min ⑻ grind old woman playing next I realized I had really good silly naive and blind obedience, but only the lower part of the fashion circle the most popular victims, because those of us who at best but as the West booming fashion industry only idiot. Oh, I mean that? We are just a pawn! At that time I began to have shaken the faith of Fashion idea. But the last straw breaks the camel, but it is I broke our hearts to a Sunday afternoon.
nightmare happened that day, and I also cut off from the popular key. In Taiwan, before returning to Paris to spend the summer months, I found that this period of heavy rain into my basement storage room, and all my collections over the years has been completely submerged! Collection efforts for many years looked moldy smell that moment, I was awakened to realize that those years, we were chasing the Fashion, originally just a bunch of waste. I woke up, it is no longer blind pursuit of fashion, because each time to pursue it at the same time, my mind I always recall the tears of a bunch of moldy waste. Mold and mildew, is in addition to my fear of heights than most fearful things; also because it is too afraid of mold and mildew, I would indirectly cure the mad pursuit of popular Prodigal disease. I understand that, Fashion is just fashion industry created a commercial phantom nothing, and I actually stupid chase this dream for years, but not the truth. In this way, I found the past religion in Taiwan, Fashion model, the original is not Fashion, as in Paris, people talk about the Mode is a culture, but also a successful business model, but also a beautiful art of living, I understood why how the past I have dark skin Chennai Xi deepness Min V @ some fashion victims, just as political victims, always top-level politicians manipulate the controls, they promised us the illusion of a beautiful blind pursuit of , and we are always beating the drums just a pawn, the blind pursuit of those more politicians have the right to higher profits. Under their control, we completely lost themselves, but I can not tell what they were in pursuit of ideology, but the truth is, no one knows. At this point I completely comprehend the fashion of the level of meaning, I want to find yourself to be able to grasp the essence of it, because I do not want to do that a group of people to pursue dreams of nothingness. Fortunately, knocking it away from Chennai whereabouts r in Paris arts, fashion friends and teachers to share how they find their own style of a small universe, they are all chasing after your own story slowly fermented in my heart, I understand their own culture to find out essence, and a thorough understanding of self, only to have the self-style, so we can turn the interpretation of fashion, is not popular captured.
they said, disillusionment is the beginning of growth. I look forward to the disillusionment of the Fashion of the moment, I get a priceless growth. Those years, the Worship and belittle our cultural mentality of self-exposure to the popular, too much emphasis on the surface of the vanity in the content of the era without seeking popularity with the chase, we get what? Perhaps, paid the tuition and recruit numerous mud Ni ^ sub cormorant way, let me find the self-tumble style. Can be considered a repair to the fashion industry, the basic credit, coupled with hard truth and the pursuit of fashion in the process, enhance the texture of the requirements and aesthetic perception, can be considered a blessing in disguise. Elders used to say, where the fall, we should get up from there. With a period of living in Paris, I understand that Asians actually have been the West as the biggest idiot fashion to treat, because we behaved, what they say, we buy according to their brand of media that the United States, We did not dare voice in Asia against the media. If the fashion media on behalf of a national voice for the industry, then, in the last century we have absolutely no say in the fashion it is. We are the Western media, fashion way with colonial aggression, yet we are helpless. In particular, the moon can not change the Worship Circle mentality, can not counter for many years the Western cultural invasion and the fashion media brainwashing of reality, in this century in 2000, I started publishing belong to Asian projects English fashion magazine, hoping to us to observe the aesthetic and cultural fashion industry, and to express our own views on fashion, rather than just the fashion industry in the silent Western consumers. Suddenly recalled a decade ago, I was in Paris for the transit television production program of the European fashion, he had met several times in the Western fashion public relations show off, facing the production team Nuhan: “No Chinese for this show! (Chinese people can not come see the show!) “, and then back to the current global fashion industry, the Chinese in the rise of heart lament. And when the world eyes focused on our market now, we must redouble our efforts to catch up, because in addition to the global Chinese will become the world largest consumer groups and, more importantly, we want to win Xifang Ren Mu Mu gap ê move properly snipe _ @ from my right foot into the fashion industry with the first day of the dream, I am also very happy that the dream has nearly come true.
Looking back all these years, we were blind pursuit of fashion, I fell in love with this industry. I spent 25 years trying to fashion industry has done all the various core and peripheral roles, from the models, artists, purchasing, marketing public relations, branding, fashion designers, fashion editor and founder of the fashion media; from the blind fashion victims consumers in mainland China in 2006 China wind Shang Dadian won the Lifetime Achievement Award for fashion; for me, the fashion industry is inseparable part of my life up. In the acceptance of different media access, I most frequently asked question is: What do you think that fashion? After all these years in mind, my answer is actually: fashion, is to understand the manipulation of people playing, people do not understand the game in the pursuit of a dream!
And you are that one?