I Want to be Popular.
Do you still blatantly want to be popular? Do you "not" want to be popular. Or do you honest to g(G)od not want to be popular?
And does the 3rd category even exist?
Prove it.
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Anyhow, I sometimes think that popularity is the basis for everything we do.
Money's nice, fame's peachy, but popularity, I mean, honest to goodness popularity?
it's a drug.
Are the rich happy?
The drugged ones, maybe, but the rich rich?
Are the famous content?
But the well-loved? Those folks have it all. And the extra-famous who think that they're well-loved? Even better. Because more is more when it comes to good attention. So how does this apply to a Midwesterner's fashion blog? Well, how does it not?
I mean, when it comes to popularity, I think us Middle America folk are pretty far down there on the totem pole of adoration.
Are the famous content?
But the well-loved? Those folks have it all. And the extra-famous who think that they're well-loved? Even better. Because more is more when it comes to good attention. So how does this apply to a Midwesterner's fashion blog? Well, how does it not?
I mean, when it comes to popularity, I think us Middle America folk are pretty far down there on the totem pole of adoration.
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Well-liked? Maybe. But loved? That adjective belongs to our friends on the coasts - the objects of more deep-rooted obsessions than Ryan Gosling himself (if Ryan Gosling obsessions were deep-rooted).
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And Fashion? The ultimate popularity contest. Who wears it first, Who knows what it is, Who makes it it, and their devoted and hopelessly directionless followers - willing to venture into strange waters in an attempt to achieve the ever-elusive "cool".
Denim on denim? Birkenstocks? Nail art? Onesies?
It's like someone's playing a joke - forcing us to prove just how willing we really are to sacrifice our pride for potential popularity.
In conclusion : as my always-inquiring friend put it via text yesterday eve, "Is the 'fashion culture' really a culture, or just a cult"?
Is fashion really a way of life, or is it a continual quest for some sort of acceptance? Do we really strive for personal expression, or are we after something else?
In conclusion : as my always-inquiring friend put it via text yesterday eve, "Is the 'fashion culture' really a culture, or just a cult"?
Is fashion really a way of life, or is it a continual quest for some sort of acceptance? Do we really strive for personal expression, or are we after something else?
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I'd once have resoundingly shouted "No!!!" . . . but now I'm not so sure.
Maybe the moment you stop really caring about popularity, is the same moment that you stop caring about "Fashion".
Maybe the moment I stop caring, is the moment I'll stop writing this blog.
jumpsuit: urban outfitters, shoes: colin stuart
Don't hold your breath.
Cheers.
Photos by Shoiab
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