Fashion is art.
Fashion is not always style.
Style is not always fashion.
And now, some definitions!
Art, a definition from dictionary.com!
–noun
1.
the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
2.
the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.
3.
a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.
4.
the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture.
5.
any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art.
6.
(in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story?
7.
the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling.
8.
the craft or trade using these principles or methods.
9.
skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.
10.
a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.
11.
arts,
a.
(used with a singular verb
) the humanities: a college of arts and sciences.
) the humanities: a college of arts and sciences.b.
(used with a plural verb) liberal arts.
) liberal arts.12.
skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.
13.
trickery; cunning: glib and devious art.
14.
studied action; artificiality in behavior.
15.
an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of politics.
16.
Archaic. science, learning, or scholarship.
and then it goes on and on with a bunch of other meanings of art.
and now,
a definition of fashion from dictionary.com!
–noun
1.
a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
2.
conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., esp. of polite society, or conformity to it: the dictates of fashion; to be out of fashion.
3.
manner; way; mode: in a warlike fashion.
4.
the make or form of anything: He liked the fashion of the simple, sturdy furniture.
5.
a kind; sort: All fashions of people make up the world.
6.
Obsolete. workmanship.
7.
Obsolete. act or process of making.
–verb (used with object)
—Idiom8.
to give a particular shape or form to; make: The cavemen fashioned tools from stones.
9.
to accommodate; adjust; adapt: doctrines fashioned to the varying hour.
10.
Shipbuilding. to bend (a plate) without preheating.
11.
Obsolete. to contrive; manage.
12.
after/ina fashion, in some manner or other or to some extent; in a makeshift, unskillful, or unsatisfactory way: He's an artist after a fashion.
/ina fashion, in some manner or other or to some extent; in a makeshift, unskillful, or unsatisfactory way: He's an artist after a fashion.and last, but not least (well, maybe),
a definition of style from dictionary.com!
–noun
1.
a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.
2.
a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode of action or manner of acting: They do these things in a grand style.
3.
a mode of living, as with respect to expense or display.
4.
an elegant, fashionable, or luxurious mode of living: to live in style.
5.
a mode of fashion, as in dress, esp. good or approved fashion; elegance; smartness.
6.
the mode of expressing thought in writing or speaking by selecting and arranging words, considered with respect to clearness, effectiveness, euphony, or the like, that is characteristic of a group, period, person, personality, etc.:to write in the style of Faulkner; a familiar style; a pompous, pedantic style.
7.
those components or features of a literary composition that have to do with the form of expression rather than the content of the thought expressed: His writing is all style and no substance.
8.
manner or tone adopted in discourse or conversation: a patronizing style of addressing others.
9.
a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode or form of construction or execution in any art or work: Her painting is beginning to show a personal style.
10.
a descriptive or distinguishing appellation, esp. a legal, official, or recognized title: a firm trading under the style of Smith, Jones, & Co.
11.
stylus (defs. 1, 2).
12.
the gnomon of a sundial.
14.
Zoology. a small, pointed process or part.
15.
Botany. a narrow, usually cylindrical and more or less filiform extension of the pistil, which, when present, bears the stigma at its apex.
16.
the rules or customs of typography, punctuation, spelling, and related matters used by a newspaper, magazine, publishing house, etc., or in a specific publication.
–verb (used with object)
17.
to call by a given title or appellation; denominate; name; call: The pope is styled His or Your Holiness.
18.
to design or arrange in accordance with a given or new style: to style an evening dress; to style one's hair.
19.
to bring into conformity with a specific style or give a specific style to: Please style this manuscript.
–verb (used without object)
—Idioms20.
to do decorative work with a style or stylus.
21.
go out of style, to become unfashionable: The jacket he's wearing went out of style ten years ago.
22.
in style, fashionable.
Just to confuse you more,
what those definitions say, are not really true.
Style, does not have to be fashionable.
Fashion is art, and can be stylish, but doesn't have to be.
Yes, it is confusing.
So,
just so it is very clear, because yes it is confusing, and yes it is weird. Why? Because fashion is just weird, as I have always said.
- Fashion is not always style.
- Style is not always fashion.
- Fashion is art.
- Style is a look.
- Something can be both unstylish and unfashionable.
- Something can be both stylish and fashionable.
And just one more thing to completely confuse you out of your mind, around the world, to the moon and back a million times,
a poem about something, nothing, and everything.
Something is one out of everything,
nothing is none out of nothing,
everything is all somethings and nothings,
nothing is never anything at all.
One thing is something,
because it will always be, and was always.
Nothing is nothing,
because it never was,
and neve will be,
nothing is nothing,
not even nothing.
By creating the word nothing,
nothing will ever be nothing,
because nothing will always be something.
Never nothing.
Not now, not ever.
Nothing.
Never.
Always it will be nothing, and never will it be anything.
It is nothing.
It is everything.
It is something.
CONFUSED YET?
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