Fashion! What About It?

Louis Vuitton, a French fashion house, is one of the designers that best reflects elegance, beauty and glamour in his creations. Alexander McQueen, a British designer, is known for his dramatic designs that best reflect the British society. Each designer has his own style, and he expresses it differently. Nevertheless, consumers also do express their clothing styles by preferring a certain designer over the other. People who first rejected the fact of going with the flow and wanted to stand out just to be different found that others also had the same message to send and eventually became trendsetters to their own culture. That is exactly how punks, gothics, hipsters, flappers and other cultures existed. Accessories, tattoos, make-up, and body piercings are also included in fashion (Lurie, 457). Nowadays, having a tattoo is not considered as a taboo however a couple of decades ago it was. Style, unlike fashion, changes from one person to another depending on one’s personality and environment. Several subcultures aroused in the medieval years each one of them reflecting a different style, however as time went by they became mainstream.

First, looking back to the year 1970 when punks came to existence from the mixture of “young people who defined themselves as anti-fashion urban youth street culture” and a new genre of music which was called punk. Later on, punks were known as the lower class people who didn’t have enough money, who wore torn clothes and designed their own garments in original ways just to gain people’s attention. They even got piercings in unusual places. This rebellious behavior was done just to offend the members of the higher class society (Weston Thomas).You can now find elderly people who have tattoos hidden under their clothes due to their rebellious actions during their youth days. Punks were considered as uncontrollable forty years ago, however now they are considered as one of the most important trendsetters. Nowadays people pay more money to get torn jeans, colorful tops and piercings in their eyebrows. Wearing trousers made of different textures is considered as fashionable and no longer offensive. Punks are not so flagrant since their fashion is now abided by most of the youngsters and is considered as mainstream.

Second, after the punk subculture came the gothic culture in 1982. It aroused in “The Batcave”, a club in London, where the members of the gothic subculture came and listened to gothic music wearing gothic clothes (Vercillo). What exactly are the gothic clothes and music? Goths usually wear dark colored clothes as in black and gray and they also put on dark make-up. They listen to strong music usually played at a high voice (Vercillo). As you walk down the aisles in a supermarket you see teenagers wearing black from head to toe, with dark eye shadow but you don’t stare at them. Why is that? Why do we see this huge divergence as time flies by? After the increasing number of the