Fashion

I like fashion.

Every since the day I joined the Facebook group, "Just Because I Like Fashion Doesn't Make Me Less Intellectual", I've admitted that I AM into fashion.

I love Project Runway, Instyle, Vogue, The Sartorialist, Marc Jacobs, Zac Posen and Australian indie labels. When I watched fashion documentary The September Issue, one fashionista's lament that "There's a famine of beauty in this place" became my pet phrase. It encompassed pretty much how I feel about my surroundings. I love being in creative environments that are original, organic and push the envelope. I'm sick of seeing the same things day in day out. Tired decor, cliches and cookie-cutter takes on design bore me. And when it comes to the way I dress, I feel like I'm sometimes out of my world.... Many days, I wanna wear a fedora, bright leggings, deconstructed sillhouettes, bohemian maxi dresses, quirky vintage, or exude punk-rock fierceness without eliciting ignorant comments like, "She dresses like an auntie" (re: my vintage dress) or "Are you an aerobics instructor?" (re: coral leggings with white oxfords). There are many reasons why I dress the way I do.... to reflect my tastes, moods and philosophies. To be different from everyone else. To look nice and pretty. To place myself where the world is at.

I love Beauty and want to see it around me. Every time I see a famine of beauty, I feel that I need to do something about it (yes, the activist in me again).

So when I chanced upon Christians doing something about fashion, it rocked my world. Like, finally, someone who understands! Hope In The City is a Christian-run runway show that parks itself alongside LA Fashion Week, with a purpose that those doing or seeing the show may encounter the Living God.

I wish that social enterprises, instead of empowering women to sew those all-too-common cloth bags, would empower them to create fashion with their ethnic touch and re-interpretations of traditional cultural dresses for modern day. Tasteful designs, that cater to modern lifestyle. I'm so into sarees and kebayas! Those textiles and textures! A post on mentoring and fashion.

OK, I have an early morning tomorrow and haven't thought about what to wear yet. Time to scoot.