What exactly is fashion?!

So at the end of last week's seminar, we were all asked "what is fashion?" Here's my thoughts.

• It's an expression, a way of expressing one's self that can't be shown in any other way.
• It's part of society, it's all around us.
• It's an influence.
• Fashion means different things to different people. Some people love it, even addicted to it. Others don't see a point to it and just wear "whatever".
• Fashion is clothes, shoes and accessories that many people adopt and wear, copying each other. However, you can also "be unique" and, for example, wear 'vintage' (like me, aha). (Although so many people wear vintage now that it's kind of lost its "unique" label. This also applies to 'goth', 'emo', 'steam punk', 'hippie', etc.
• However, when people talk about/say "fashion", they generally refer to what's being shown on the current catwalk collections, and what's being sold in mainstream retail shops.
• IT'S REALLY HARD TO DEFINE WHAT EXACTLY FASHION IS!

I mean, I'm not exactly what one would call "fashionable"... :-P

Dress made by me, from a 'Simpsons' duvet cover. :L