On the frivolity of fashion

It’s a subject I have many times touched in this blog, but now after having had an exceptionally exciting and totally uplifting conversation with someone who has devoted her life on reading the meaning of fashion and how does it reflect life, why people buy clothes and accessories and what their clothes say about them, I have to once again make my statement:

Fashion is a game, it is a way of playing and keeping the child in you entertained. Fashion is joy, laughter and beauty. It is an experiment to what extent you can reinvest your identity. It brings you sense of control because you can travel in your mind any time, anywhere.

Many women don’t want to dress up, especially here in Switzerland, because they want to demonstrate a special attitude. They take themselves too seriously to care about what they put on their back. But why they turn back on beauty and womanhood for me will always stay incomprehensible.

Sometimes women think that dressing up is a form of weakness, superficiality and even frivolity. May be they fear a different attitude from men, that they won’t be taken seriously at work if they wear a floral dress or a pink lipstick. The risk these women take is to drive themselves to depression because of constantly suppressing their natural desires. At the end fashion, as I feel it, is a natural escape to us women as cars and football are naturally attractive to men. Why do we fight back against our true nature and desires?

Skirt Max&Co., ASOS earrings, H&M denim shirt, vintage belt, Minelli sandals

Now you may ask yourself what this subject has to do with the pictures in this post. Well, I will tell you that I got on the train in this skirt and with this pair of earrings on an early morning, at 7:30, and I was not going to a birthday or any kind of event. The occasion for me was just a meeting with a special woman who I didn’t even know in person and I was going to see an exhibition opening at the St. Gallen Museum of textiles. Did I feel overdressed and too flamboyant for a Wednesday in Europe’s leading financial centre? I will leave that answer for you to guess. As for my conversation with  PD Dr. Monika Kritzmöller, a scientist, consultant and writer, who analyses phenomena of life style and everyday culture with main topics such as fashion, textile and the body you can read more in the November NU ICONS issue.