Oddities Resonating

Prompt No. 68: April's (Somewhat) Avant-Garde Acquisitions

If I were attending tonight’s Met Gala, I would have gone as a horseman.

Here we acquire perspective, not just things, and recently Arthur Zaczkiewicz, former Executive Editor at WWD, asked me an interesting question: how had the last year shaped my perspective and relationship to fashion theory? You can hear my answer, as well as the rest of our chat here, but the question still rolls around in my head. One point I keep coming back to is that fashion theory cannot capture our desire to transform. As I delve deeper into avant-garde and anti-fashion, worlds that exert individuality outside of social patterns, I have come to realize that that transformation may feel authentic, but it is not always honest.