This editorial was first published in InCompany by Attire Club, Spring 2018.
We’ve often written on AttireClub.org how fashion is one’s expression of who they are; of their personality and world view. The clothes you wear have the power to put you in the mood to do something or can give you the confidence to be who you want to be. A simple accessory can change your entire attitude: adding something that you like to your look can improve your posture, your approach towards people and the things you do and even the way you speak.
But fashion goes a lot beyond that. This is why, a few years ago, we have introduced the concept of “metafashion”, which describes the things you do before and after getting dressed and the things you choose to surround yourself with. In other words, it’s the process of extending the things that express materially who you are in your soul to other aspects of life, to composing your life as a set for the character you want to be.
Aligning the clothes you wear with the idea you have or want to have of yourself is important because it keeps you working on your personal development; it gives you the opportunity to analyze yourself and to have a deep relation with yourself.
Of course, one should not base their entire life on their look, clothes and material things, these should be extensions of yourself, but they should not be neglectable.
See your home as your dressing room, your playlist as your soundtrack and the things you have as your props. Don’t think of them as what they are to others or to those who made them, but rather what they are to you and what role they play in your mental structure. Where do they come from, what do they symbolize?
All these things matter because in the end, as the amazing Diana Vreeland would say, “It’s not about the dress you wear, but the life you lead in the dress.”
Fraquoh and Franchomme
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