I. Illusion.
There is an art to creating, promoting and maintaining a facade. An artistic, spiritual and authentic masterpiece, the film Eve's Bayou concludes on a statement that holds relevance to my current thoughts, "the truth changes color depending on the light." What is indeed actually exactly true? People enter our lives under whichever pretenses they would like and thus they appear to possess various qualities to create an illusion in which they can be classified accordingly.
On the most simplistic, superficial level, a person can create an image by making a fashion statement, designing a web page or fratenizing with a certain group of people. On the most complex of levels, a person can create an entire identity and live vicariously live under that pretense.
When a girl (or a party boy) with a nearly $7,000 Alexander McQueen dress and $1,195 Rene Caovilla strappy sandles embelleshed with Austraillian crystals hops out of a CL 500 Mercedes Benz with a Yves Saint Laurent clutch in hand, an illusion has been created and thus conclusions surrounding this individual will be drawn regarding this person's social status, monetary worth and fashion sense; but it is a great possibility that this person has an overdrawn bank account which has been sent to check systems, is borrowing the car and the clothes "belong" to a friend who works as a stylist and has been so generous to help a friend out before the clothes must be returned to their appropriate spots on the shelves of high end fashion boutiques.
In turn, a person with a dirty t-shirt and dirty run down shoes and uncombed hair will be assumingly classified as a peasant; when in all actuality the wearer of the dirty t-shirt may infact go home to a mansion and have more monetary worth than homegirl with the rich illusion in the Caovilla masterpieces.
What does it mean to just be? Without trendsetters, fashion conosuers and entertainers what would the average person drape themselves in? How would they present themselves? How would they exist without illusion?
:::Let's Get Into Her Illusion:::
Dress Designed by Alexander McQueen, Pre-Fall 2008
Shoes Designed by Rene Caovilla, Spring 2008
Clutch Designed by Yves Saint Laurent, Spring 2008
What a Hot Illusion, but yet and still
an illusion...
1 comment:
I have been thinking about the exact thing lately. My conclusion is: Everything is relative.
AK.
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