2000 'nd Snap

So who died and made you God’s gift to the world you shallow attention seeker. We Millennials are so shallow, drugged by the scent of instant gratification all we want is to take and take more but who are we giving to?

The cycle of fashion or trends always has a source, an igniter or movement that which is robust and true to itself and posses a Mona Lisa art like stature. Yester years have seen fashion movements and icons who have influenced the landscape of fashion beyond what they have known to, the punk who have revolutionised youth rebellion copied and pasted on the worlds runways then mass produced to a point where it had to come back to the streets to find its home again. What we do not realise though is that what has been mass produced are the souls, hearts and minds of the 60’s London youths. They didn’t do it for the fame nor the money, whether they became popular or not was inadequate but the fact that they were robust and true towards themselves is the main reason they have reached a height so desirable in pop culture.

My all time favourite style icon Grace Jones has inspired the world to an extent her hands cannot reach. They say under the sun the is nothing new which is evident in the way things are being innovated instead of created but  all driven by inspiration, the difference being whether you choose to do it consciously or if it’s a faded picture from something you might have seen or heard somewhere sometime stored in your subconscious library. Whether she would care to admit it or not Lady Gaga is an innovator and not a creative merely because she is ‘not new’. Her subconscious has conjured and imposed on the world that she is truly a one of as kind from planet who knows where, her eccentric dress, colossal performances and pop stature has inspired the youths of today with wanting that Lady Gaga status.

Now as I see my peers posing with Gagaesque tendencies on social networks as soon as they can just to say I told you so and renaming themselves ‘swag so and so’ would have queen should in uproar for abuse of her language, I ask myself do these kids actually know whom are they a product of? They are actually a product of Grace Jones in this respect. A product of her soul and what she feels in her heart, her expression and how she chooses to display it and dress it up. It’s a poisonous gas killing our urge to be original and robust, true to ourselves like a living art work to inspire generations to come. All we aspire to lately is to take Gaga’s shades, Kanye’s bags, Minaj’s lipstick and MIA’s wild jeans then pose, click click shoot and share.

If we just considered not just to mimic and pose, click click shoot and share for the purpose of instant gratification but rather look to who we are and how your style can inspire and change the world because if we take an honest look no one in our times is playing the role of fashion idol to us, One to be remembered for years to come and possibly start a revolution. In saying so the world is missing style authenticity and fashion God status,  the world of fashion is currently a blank canvas hungry for new style, a style that has no shame and does not consider others’ feelings a style with soul and a do not care attitude so ask yourself if this could be you? Give us something to stare at, laugh at then copy as our own for only then would you have reached style icon status.

For the sake of not sounding outdated, this particular post was drafted in 2011 so clearly it is way overdue but still relative I believe.

Original photo from Ravesuits.com