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My Tumultuous Relationship with Fashion
By Glendy | February 3, 2010
I love fashion but right now we are taking a break from each other and exploring other options.
I have loved fashion for a few years now, it was love at first glance. At first, I learned so much from It and It made me feel so inspired and happy. I now know it probably wasn’t appropriate but I’ll come clean and confess it, fashion was my provider. It was a mean and strict dictator but also a fulfilling and intriguing lover.
However, last year things turned sour, fashion and I got to the point where we couldn’t have a conversation anymore and our constant arguments drove us to fast-fashion insults. I avoided trade shows, showrooms and even magazines, I couldn’t bear to see fashion fall from grace, It became a ridiculous and lost soul. It became obsessed with the 1980’s and I believe It cheated on me with cheap skanky collabos.
I endured it until the Fall season, but it was always the same promise, “I will give you the best collections this season baby”, and of course I was a fool and believed it. But it was too late, I found It’s inbox full of e-mails, texts and even pictures with Lady Gaga! How dare It do this to me? I had always been faithful, following It’s trends and I even purchased a few of the awful publications from It’s mother, Anna Wintour. I just could not take it anymore and one night under the bed, I found the most awful thing…. SHOULDER PADS! At that moment, I confronted fashion and told It we needed to explore other things.
I am now seeing my childhood friend, medicine and we get along very well but fashion keeps e-mailing me, calling me, sending me invitations and I cannot stop thinking about It. I love fashion and always will, but I have learned that I am also interested in other things. Fashion and I are now close friends, we occasionally hold hands and see each other at events but It knows that I also care about medicine. Fashion will always be a part of my life and who knows, maybe one day we’ll share something together again.
photos by Marc Rogoff
Much love,
Glendy
Topics: Art, Fashion, Op-Ed | 15 Comments »
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:42 am
Enjoyed reading this. You’re a great writer! I too have had a tumultuous affair with fashion throughout the years. I’m glad you and fashion are still close friends. :)
xo, becs
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February 3rd, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Go explore!
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:30 pm
@ Becs
yes fashion and I are still very close friends, I still visit IT at shows and events but I don’t necessarily want to move in with fashion again. lol
@ Sarah
Yes Sarah, I am exploring different things but Fashion and I speak everyday, I hope we can manage a “friends only” relationship.
Much love,
Glendy
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Will the blog continue? I liiiiike it. And you are a lovely writer.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 12:54 pm
@ Ian
Yes the blog will always continue! I am just exploring other things but fashion plays such an important role in my life, we cannot just stop talking or seeing each other even if we’re just “friends” ;)
Much love,
Glendy
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Fashion and I are frenemies. LOL. :)
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February 3rd, 2010 at 2:44 pm
I’m with dreamsequins! It’s definitely on frenemy status. =)
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I love this!! I didn’t know you were such a great writer! kudos
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:07 pm
I know exactly how you feel! Fashion is such a massive part of my life and I love it to bits, but writing and the study of English Literature will always be my first and most passionate love… Sad I know :D
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February 3rd, 2010 at 4:53 pm
@ Alicia & @ dreamsequins
hahaha, wow I never considered fashion to be a frenemy, but I think it shows how other friends view IT, to me it has been a lying cheating beast, but yet I still love IT,sad huh lol.
@Tamisha
aww thank you so much darling :)
Much love,
Glendy
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Fashion is tough, I am more about style (since style costsnothing I can afford it!). :)
P.S – saw you on Doe Deere today!
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February 4th, 2010 at 10:53 am
I was redirected here from doe deere’s blog, and I definitly will be returning. I too have a love/hate relationship with fashion. I’ve spent many years trying to follow fashion, to be someone who could be called fashionable, but when I finally got enough guts to try the new clothes, the fad has left and I’m just left in the wake. I then decided to keep fashion at a reasonable distance, and work on my education instead. Now that I teach, I’ve noticed high schoolers tend to be nicer towards teachers who are more fashionable, I guess we teachers are more accesable socially if we resemble the teenagers a bit. In any case, I’ve been following fashion more so lately, but its more of an acquaintance than a friendship.
Definitely found another reader <3
Melinda
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February 5th, 2010 at 1:04 am
Oh I know the feeling. Sigh.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:33 am
@ Melinda
I completely understand, I feel a bit fashionably lost right now and sometimes I like trends but when I see them in person I find myself not liking them as much. I guess fashion is a very different thing for all of us, it’s inescapable whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, fashion will always be part of our lives.
PS: How wonderful that you are a teacher, I have a great respect for educators and btw I love your images at your Deviant art :)
Much love,
Glendy
February 7th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
hahaha amazing analogy!
fashion and medicine are two very different things. good luck!
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