With over a thousand looks and fashion trends to customize to fit who you are, it is important to know what different trends represent your TRUE image.
So ask yourself, when incorporating fashion trends into your wardrobe, "how does this outfit represent me?"
Fashion is such a humongous part of American culture due to the mass conditioning of the media reporting whats "in", who wore it best, and fashion do's and don'ts. What ever happened to self expression?
I'm starting to notice gothic like trends becoming more popular as well as fashion that promotes self-degrading titles and imagery. While this trend is becoming more and more popular, the ideas the labels promote are also becoming more trendy and are targeting our youth. Our youth are living up to these titles thinking it's "cool" because they see their favorite celeb rocking the same labels with the same messages...
Some labels have messages that are more subliminal and you may have to dig a little more to recognize the hidden message...
a perfect example of a label that has subliminal messages and propaganda hidden in it's clothing line is named "OBEY".
According to a blog titled Soc Theory, the creator of this brand, Shepard Fairey, claims that the distribution of this work, and the original artistic pieces, were an experiment in phenomenology.
Fairey discribes his goal as follows:
“The Andre the Giant sticker campaign can be explained as an experiment in Phenomenology. Heidegger describes Phenomenology as “the process of letting things manifest themselves.” The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker.”
Propaganda is always controversial...
It took me awhile to see, that this new line that is in every urban clothing store I've visited, had a hidden agenda in its message.
The first time I noticed this clothing line I was checking out at the register and happened to look up behind the register where they had a wall of hats. One of the fitted caps messages captured my eye.
This message alone made me obsessed with getting down to the bottom of understanding why and who would create a line with such a negative message and why people would still support this clothing line after seeing this message.
After further research I found other imagery with hidden messages that this clothing line promotes and I'd have to say are a little disturbing...
Check out the following images below and you come up with your own conclusions...
PARENTS BEWARE
