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Self Expression through Fashion & Style

Though affordability or an expensive cart can be subjective, Fashion is truly Not! As of 2019, on the whole, the world's citizens acquire some 80 billion apparel items annually (Thomas, 2019). Nevertheless, how many truly understand the relation between Fashion and Style, Fashion and Self Expression, or Self Expression through Style?

A brand is No Fashion; Fashion is the walk, embracing your presence in the look. An admirable fashion style never upholds 'pricing' as a criterion. The buyer with such a sense of style believes in the billion-dollar walk that would rather talk on its own. The billion-dollar walk needs no ramp or a luxury car. All that is required is just 'The Vogue Comfort.' The comfort can inflate from a vintage piece reconciling the owner with a beautiful memory or any other fashion product reminding of a particular time. With such ease, one can be a brand by themselves. The owner can now embrace the feel of the cloth more than the place to be shown at. The feel of the fabric, the sparkle of the ornament, the knot of shoelaces, or the smell of a favorite scent or aftershave all play a vital role in a perfect “You.” This simply means that a good styling is the alignment of a personality in a surrounding with its apparel. And facts being called, Fashion and Style are never confined to branded clothing; they simply just act as the elements blending for a reaction.


A beautiful girl admiring her look in the mirror

Step 1 - Focus On Symbiosis

To understand fashion trends, one must realize that neither of them is taught in schools, just like “Making Money” isn't too. What is taught is what to wear to work and how to get a job! However, just when we realize the exponential space that lies between the two - Wearing Clothes and Living Fashion, or Getting a Job and Making Money, we move one step closer to actually knowing what Fashion or Sense of Style truly is. For instance, the Nordstorm rack is the favourite store for the elites. Fashion or Style is a slim profile of a person, and hence it cannot be leveraged by the price or brand of a product. For real, a good styling will amend that by enhancing the depth of empowerment felt in the moment. One must ask themself before leaving the room, am I dressed for myself or for others? Making or putting on clothes involves fundamental theories like the quality of the material, color, and size, to name a few. Just from there, for step one, aligning with the personality and mood, leapfrog the basic concepts like focusing on the symbiosis of disparate materials, gradients in color, and variants in shapes and sizes to unfold the broad curriculum of Self Expression through Fashion and Style.


Working woman with spectacular dressing

Step 2 - Mix-Match-Desire

Step two for the fashionable and functional destination will indulge mixing-matching-desiring and the constant improvisation of the same, i.e., performing this theory again on every predefined desired look. Mix-matching disparate clothing and accessories and trying to wrap them around your body in various styles will bring the desired outfit forth for the day or occasion. However, while doing so, one must not let the social constraints or work norms define their comfort boundaries and their productivity in a much broader way. For instance, the most common look for a male is blue jeans, a white t-shirt, and white shoes. After numerous styling episodes, a fashionable outfit can be light blue jeans, a side-tugged red t- shirt with a white letter print, red shoes, and a black/white sling-type fanny bag, or another fashionable outfit could be dark blue jeans, light blue t-shirt, white sneakers, and a broad dial watch. The two stylings, as denoted, do not uphold the price of the product but rather the vogue and comfort in divergent categories. The Mix-Match-Desire of step two, if comprehended, is not just the freestyling of Fashion and Styling but rather an art on its own.


Cool guy swinging down a step

Step 3 - Seize Your Faith

Per step three, seize faith in the choices made. The disparate fashion styles focus on distinct identities one can create and carry. Each tailored product or outfit will create a unique recognition for itself and the user. One can also keep tailoring various styles in mind before even wearing them by observing the clothes or draping styles of the people in their surroundings. Eventually, seize on the choice that you imagine appreciating on yourself or someone else, and make it look like a way of your living. Ikea, the most renowned Swedish- dutch multinational, follows similar cheap DIY (Do-It-Yourself) approach for furniture to inspire a better imagination and life at home. They evaluate the styles of the top brands in the industry, replicate or perform minimalistic changes, and live in it for themselves and hence, for others. Additionally, the selected choice must not be intimidating. Understanding the disparate fashion trends and prototyping a comfortable sense of Style each time will help to eliminate such a factor. And, not necessarily, you will make the right choice in the first go, but at least you are learning from your experience, and that is enough for you to realize that you are now one stride closer to being fashionable and functional.


free standing dresser, stocked with jackets

Step 4 - Uphold Your Faith

And the last step will briefly reconcile the upholding of the faith. Summing up with the confidence on an outfit will yet be incomplete if your walk is not, making it seem like 'The Truly Yours.' Fashion is said to be one of the boldest languages of communication. It endorses the 'Expressions' of the owner. In accordance, the owner must make it look significant, not common! For instance, Bershka, by Zara, manufactures and sells the too-cool clothing products that tend to appear expensive but are not. This analogy highlights the fact that even multinational brands who want to make Money believe that oneness is more important than price. Fashion is a way of reducing the gap between your inner state and outer appearance. The visual representation of such a state outshines as a subtle communication for the viewers. In accordance, one must have a comfortable, fashionable, and stylish sense of feeling at a specific point in space and time. The routine practice of such dressing will overcome the market's volatility and outdo the fashionable and fabulous persona of the owner.


Brave lover sitting down relaxed, leaning to a walk

Thus, by amending this four-step process, one will outcast Self-Expression through Fashion and Style, making the walk, talk a billion-dollar.


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