Fashion Don’ts Become Fashion Dos
Remember when seeing sandals and socks together was a concept that would make you cringe with embarrassment? Remember when white pants after Labor Day was considered a mortal sin, so in the winter time a white pant was as rare as snow in June. Remember how these were unimaginable things if you wanted to be “in the know” of fashion?
Today it seems as if the only rule for fashion is that there are no rules. A struggling need for an own identity and fashion footprint has forced fashionistas all over the world to create new styles, outfits and even silhouettes. Bringing inspiration even from the so-called fashion faux pas. Red and pink was for long a color combination for kindergartners, but now seen walking around on many streets of fashionable metropolises.
Fashion icons of the 21st century such as MIA, Emmanuelle Alt and Iris Apfel have all cleared the path for celebrating the individual. It’s not about what you wear but how you wear it. Expressing your own unique self with chains and colored feathers, or just donning a clean white t-shirt, have become celebrated in fashion cities all around the world. In each of these cities there will naturally be some styles that are still more accepted and in general more easy to adapt when visiting, context is the key! A strong identity can pull off any style in his/her own way – anywhere, anyplace. Bringing back acid-washed jeans which long were considered “out” is an estimate of adapting to change in the fashion climate.
So the trend of rocking a fashion may not have been done by a fashionista who adapted to another fashionable climate in a try to survive. Still, one needs to keep in mind to do such with a certain finesse. Wearing a pink top and a red skirt in a luxurious material such as silk or chiffon, or pairing a high-heeled strappy sandals with a fine knit sock can be examples of how to change a fashion don’t into a fashion do.
