why be a fashion designer?
because making clothes was an
immediate expression of
non expressive ideas, ideas that
are external to our physical
body, & because making clothes,
& initiating fashion was a rare & precious thing.
Not many people made clothes,
clothing was ‘an interesting thing’
and therefore as a cultural thing
was not ‘mainstream’, so we
embraced it. Now everybody
is a designer / stylist, whether
they like the idea or not.
They are all obsessed completely with image,
and with what is thought of them by others.
It is crowded and over populated, and
clothing therefore does not speak or mean
the same thing. It is being emptied by
participation in it, by everybody.
Words by Professor Julian Roberts