Was born with roses in her eyes…”
One evening, 1945
With just her sister at her side
And only weeks before the guns
All came and rained on everyone…”
History keeps repeating itself. Fashion is today what it was yesterday, just with a different back drop dotted with technology of the future. Life has its faults and joys–at core this is all the same.
We are one person and could have been another. How much of who we are would always be the same, and how much of us is made from the world and situations that surround us?
After going through this photo shoot and thinking and thinking and thinking some more, I decided to take a round about way of explaining my thoughts. My initial vision of the shoot from the look and back drop, are of the 1930’s and the dust bowl. I thought about The Grapes of Wrath and the family’s struggle to survive in a world dotted with sorrow and loss. All they were trying to do was live when everything was lost due to the circumstances of their home.
Don’t we all look for water in a desert? Don’t we all look for shelter when it rains? It can be the 1930’s or 2010’s: life is life, and survival is survival–no matter how you dress it up and prettify it.
Playing pianos filled with flames
All sing to say my dream has come…”
To speak in simpler terms: our core purpose never waivers. Fashion takes from one to reinvent another. This dress is from the 1980’s, but it took from the 1930’s, to now be worn by me in 2010’s. I could travel forward or backward in time and no one would look twice.
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on…”
Fashion is today, tomorrow, and yesterday. We are one and the same. It defines you and differentiates who you are and who we are. How you live or your grandparents lived. It is more than fabric and thread. It is history. It is the people. It is life. Yes, fashion is life.
Keep on sewing. Keep on dreaming. Keep on being crazy, because we want to let those anthropologists and fashion designers of the future see us as who we are and where we came from. We are living history and lets define it.
Quotes come from the song “Holland 1945” by Neutral Milk Hotel. Listen to the song below:
I’m wearing:
Dress: The Curvy Elle Shop
Black Leggings: Hue
Red Hat: The Curvy Elle Shop (FOR SALE!)
Black Boots: Chelsea Crew
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