What I'd Like To Say About Fashion.

Why is that I am a fashion design major, yet I basically undermine the entire industry by telling people to stop spending money on clothes and make it yourself? Well, I guess its because I am trying to make fashion more creative. Fashion in its very origins referred to the way people would take a particular style and make it unique. The example that comes to my mind first as picture I saw in costume history class. Its a middle ages painting of a man wearing a shoe on his head. That's how fashion started. People take things, and change them. But I feel as if we've gone away from this idea. Yes, people have different styles, but we as consumers buy into things that make us fit in. So I probe the question next time you shop for an item of clothing: Why do you want that item?
So this is my quest to get back to the roots of true fashion. I want people to feel inspired to create, to rethink, to problem solve their way through style. Do not look at ANYTHING face value. There's a million possibilities for a single item of clothing, or for anything for that matter.