What is Fashion?

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Undoubtedly, the most significant question of all time. In essence, fashion is the force.

Although it may seem perplexing, this article will try to clarify the statement, and hopefully will lead to a deeper appreciation of fashion as one of the most substantial intangible aspects of our existence.

So, let’s begin from the very beginning.

The beginning of fashion

Fashion came into existence when time began. This statement does not imply that they began simultaneously or indicates which one started first. The point is that it didn't emerge at a later point in time, but has been present since the very beginning. The relationship between Time, Fashion, and the Zeitgeist has always been symbiotic. It's important to note that fashion is distinct from time, but close to our current understanding of the Zeitgeist.

What is not Fashion?

Sometimes, it can be more fitting to describe something by what it is not, rather than what it embodies. This is not due to the inability to define fashion accurately, but rather to enhance clarity and comprehension.

1. Fashion is not clothes.

   Many people connect fashion to clothes, but fashion actually has nothing to do with clothes. It is deeply connected to design, but never to clothes. What connects both fashion and clothes is fashion industry.

2. Fashion is not the fashion industry.

   Fashion industry is the most important form of fashion manifestation in our collective reality.

3. Fashion is not a product of capitalism.

   Fashion exists everywhere and always and there is no possible way to ignore it’s existence in spaces and times when capitalism was not existing. It is deeply connected to fashion industry that operates in capitalism currently, but fashion itself is a manifestation on its own.

4. Fashion is not a tangible entity, place or space.

   Ultimately, if fashion were to represent anything, it would be a living entity or an organism. Fashion is dynamic. Fashion is more alive than it is not.

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With knowledge of some of these truths, creating the definition of fashion as a force of time becomes quite simple. Let's construct that definition gradually.

STEP 1; Fashion = Force

To begin, let's reflect on the perpetual presence of fashion, always in motion and self-sustaining, impacting reality without any explicit demands, existing in a state between life and death. Knowing this, we can define fashion influence and fashion itself as a force.

Fashion is a powerful force, not a passive one, but rather an active and forward-moving one. It is ever-present and responsive. The question remains whether fashion causes social changes and challenges, is merely influenced by them, or whether a combination is true - that fashion both is causing, is caused by and affected by social changes and challenges simultaneously.

• Social change is every change in a society that happens and leaves a mark by impacting the existing society.

• Social challenge is every yet to be solved and (un)predicted situation in a society that can cause a social change.

  
  

STEP 2; Force of Time

Now we can go step further and define that force in a certain dimension understandable in our reality. We know that it can not be defined by 3D dimensions and we know that fashion and time are intertwined. So, starting with definition of time — flowing relative constant that may exist or may not exist at all, we find that it corelates to core of fashion existence. It may exist or may not exist at all, but it is dependent on the existence of time.

Force of time. Fashion most definitely is not time, but it’s deep dependency to time makes time and fashion seem unified. Time has no power, it just is. Fashion also just is (if we purely observe it’s existence), but fashion has a power affected by the Zeitgeist deeply connected to social changes and social challenges. So as time simply flows/is (whatever direction and shape), fashion attached to time makes an impact to 3D reality. It operates as a powerful manifestation of time. It simply acts like a force. Of time. Ultimate force of time.

If it is a force, it is automatically undestroyable. It is immortal by nature. It lives as long as time lives. If only it ever lived.

Thank you.

Igor

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