@Phuel , the only thing to say for me is that you speak the truth. I cannot remember how many times I have been told by a lot of people, even average-bodied ones, that I should eat more because I am too skinny. Funnily, telling people that I want to remain skinny to look good in the clothes that I like immediately gets others to total outrage. I don't see why it is so controversial that they can seek happiness in their donuts and cakes, while I am having mine fitting in "S" size Saint Laurent jeans.
ha you're not wrong by any means, but you'll always find people like me who do think some genetics are controversial or just.. hilarious. Like.. can't afford a donut because you immediately expand out of your current size?
my mind always goes 'oh so I guess he/she has that kind of.. a grape (and
only a grape) a day keeps the grape figure away type of family genetics' haha..
I'm honestly not impressed by anyone's lifestyle
... it depends on the culture. Some cultures are just truly healthy and tend to have both an active lifestyle and well-balanced cuisines, and their people age well, are fit, etc. But if you're in your car all the time, eat 'just a banana' in 10 hours because it's ~healthy~ and the only way your body behaves.. lol.. sorry to break it to you but you're as reckless as someone living on mac n cheese. But not gross.. just tragic.
Back to
Fulton's original point.. yeah, I have followed fashion for as long as I can remember (a lot less now, thank god) and when I started, well, involving brain cells and not just screaming in excitement, I remember thinking some aspects were a bit off, or super archaic, and that they definitely could benefit from regulation (nothing too complicated- usually outrageous, in-your-face things like..
why have Peachoo + Krejberg been kicked out of Paris Fashion Week out of pressure from Condé Nast) and that criticism was definitely needed, because it seemed frowned upon, as if everyone was just supposed to nod, clap and spend money, or look away if you don't like it. I hated that and it pushed me to like more thoughtful designers and publications (like Vestoj).. but it didn't change the fact that more room for debate and refining was clearly needed, for its own sake, to remain ahead of the curve and relevant and avoid becoming nodding sheep itself.
Fast forward to several years later, and yeah.. I actually think that this lack of willingness to foment criticism and debate under their own terms, allowed fashion to be so easily permeated by an ordinary, social media-trained, 'outsider' eye that clutches its pearls at fashion as a whole, its present and past and doesn't really want it to change and grow but to be something else, to mirror the more palatable mundanity and make it its premise. And the industry follows like a dumb headless chicken whose income now hangs from saying yes and immediately complying to that outsider eye. They're not exactly unaccountable, you can say 'oh it's the PC police that's destroying everything!' but that will never explain how big houses have solidified their power while independent designers (and thinkers- those who understood fashion
and knew how to challenge it to make it better) have vanished.
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