Thoughts on Survey of Dressing
October 2, 2008
Though your personality is not fully your identity, it is a major attribute to it. MAJOR!
So if I’m going to illustrate models based on various personalities, it indirectly becomes a sort of celebration of personalities which cater to different identities.
To note: Though our styles in dressing hold certain insights to the personalities that we possess, it is not fully characterized until we bring into account of the way a person carries herself which is animated by our character. Our image portrayed to the world, thus, consists of the “outside” and the “inside”.
Therefore personalities can be found as similar, but not EXACTLY the same.
Forum: The ideal physical beauty of women in Singapore
September 29, 2008
“Beauty is an agreement. Every culture ties itself to a beauty loop. We point out what is beautiful to us and lean towards the tendency of adjusting ourselves to the closest form of it. In the process of receiving feebacks, we take certain measures and feed the ‘agreement’. Q: What is your ideal combination of physical(i.e. double eye lids, petite frame) beauty of women in Singapore?”
According to the response, we can see how the ideal Singapore beauty doesn’t quite exist. The preference for certain beauties changes from person-to-person. So there are some more commonly preferred features but they don’t exactly point to the picture of that ideal woman.
Perhaps I should rephrase the question to “What physical features would you like to have on yourself?”
The Way We Dress: the meaning of fashion
September 25, 2008
I picked up a film, The Way We Dress: the meaning of fashion, which showed me my topic from a different perspective.
Call number: TT507W357 @ ADM Library
What I gathered..
What is fashion?
- Fashion is adopted because it is what seems as appropriate
- Successful peer pressure
- A form of non-verbal communication and you have many things to say
- “clothing grammar”
- Not to say who we are but who we want to be
- Friends tend to dress alike
- Young people are still constructing their image so they experiment with different styles
- A way of testing the answers to the question, “Who am I”.
- Influential individual influence fashion
- Celebrity driven
- Upper class man wore wigs — Social status
- Tradition of bridesmaid was due to the idea of fashionable women in the past who required attendance to put on their dresses.
- The change in how we spend time
- Only the wealthy has leisure time
- “Casual” image was a recent invention
- People used to play sports in suits
- Fabric: Social standing, not free choice
- Americans took it from social standing to a freedom of expression
- Clothing is an identity kit: “This is who I am.”
- Fashion is a partial answer to question: “Who am I?”
Just a a side-thought.Thebeautyloop Project
September 22, 2008
Every culture has its ideal beauty. You, an individual, do not have to be tied to it to get caught in it. Beauty is an agreement, a “cultural feedback loop” which most of us, who want to be “beautiful”, regard highly. We point out what is beautiful to us and lean towards the tendency of adjusting ourselves to the closest form of it. In the process of receiving feedback, we take certain measures and feed the “agreement”. Well, this “agreement” is a form of approval that we seek.
I’m considering between: 1) Installation and 2) Campaign.
Installation based on metaphorical concepts or campaign to breakout of Thebeautyloop to celebrate self-identity.
(If I choose to campaign) Self-identity can become an issue when some of us fail to run with the approval of others and fall into depression of not being “good enough”. Are we what others say of us? Reports on countless celebrities undergoing the knife is relatively considered as an extreme outward manifestation of the desire within us who want to look beautiful. Obsession over cosmetic surgery, calls for the questioning of self-identity. Yet in the midst of alterations to look “just as beautiful”, we strive to come across different in the opinion of others. The point is we are — Different. You are a human being, a unique individual whom no one can ever, by any means, replace your “earthenship”. Now, what qualifies you for such remarkable individuality? Your birth. So “Celebrate You”.
Get outta here..
