What is Fashion

Fashion is life. Fashion is an individuals perspective on how he or she is perceived and how he or she wants to be perceived. It is a subtle yet loud glimpse into an individuals psyche if you take the effort to see the correlation between a persons style and a persons outlook on life. The way in which a person decides to dress is in sum proportion,  a correlation to that individuals perspective on life. With this understanding fashion can be used as as an offensive and defensive strategy in the game of life

OFFENSIVE
A Fashion Intellect understands the concept of perception and the affects it can have on everyday situations. The ability to perceive is one of societies strongest but also most debilitating characteristic in my opinion. The term " do not judge a book by its cover" had to have derived from some continuously fallible misconceptional trait. But where there is a misconception; there is room for exploitation, and as many great athletes know and understand, the best offense is a great defense. An author does not slap their title on a plain book cover and expect it to sell out the store. Understanding your market and strategy goes a long way in marketing and designing a book cover or sleeve. This is basic business 101. If the content of this book has best seller potential, it wont sell like it should if the cover does not speak to people. (figuratively speaking... or am I?... just kidding... or am I??) This is the mindset a Fashion Intellect should have when getting dressed for potentially progressive opportunities, which should be everyday.

A prime and most typical situation is a job interview. a Fashion Intellect should analyze as such:

1.  Type of job
1. Position Environment (Work aspect)
2. Position Requirements (What will be asked of you)
3. Work Environment (Company Culture)
2. How to be perceived
1. Obvious Position Perception

(Please comment if you would like examples)

Once the analysis is done, a compilation of the most appropriate outfit and persona can be selected. Now some of you might say... That's a  bit much, throw on some slack, a button up and tie and your good to go...(I hope not), That seems conniving, or may ask what do you mean select a persona?shouldn't you be yourself?...
In my opinion, I do not think is it a bit much or the least bit conniving. Not if you understand that you are the master of your fate and the captain of your soul, as William Earnest Henley states in his poem Invictus. Also when I say select a persona I am in no way saying that you should pick from the vast personality types there are in this world and not be yourself. First let me say if you are interviewing for a position in which you feel like you have to be someone other than yourself, I hope that this is a temporary job and if it is not then that job is not for you (my opinion). With that said, human beings are complex creatures (well most of us). Their will be sides of us that will be ideal and sides that will lack luster in an interview and eventually job setting. The idea in selecting a persona is to identify and separate these character traits. Making a conscious effort to focus on executing the ideal traits and suppressing the lack luster traits as you see fit during an interview and any (potentially) important meeting. I call it being yourself, as you see fit for your benefit.

Fashion is way more than just clothes my friends. It is also a personification of who you are and the ability to express yourself. Expressing yourself in a way that makes others see you as you want them to see you. In short self branding.

More to come

Sivad