The Fashion Industry

It’s a strange old world the fashion industry. It literally is a world of its own. Filled with beautiful clothes, beautiful bodies, and beautiful faces. To the professionals, the fashion and beauty editors, the creative directors, the stylists, the photographers, the designers, the models, the makeup and hairstylists it’s an art focused business where they can play and express themselves.  Where they can be inspired and impassioned and create from those emotions. They are driven solely for the love of what they do.  But strangely this fantastic thing they have found (their gift’s and talents) they have created an entire industry for consumerism. They have created a lifestyle that people want. 

From an outsiders point of view they see beauty and abundance and they want that for themselves. They want to know how they can be a part of that world. They see their idols be it a fashion photographer, a designer, a makeup artist as majestic beings who can make anything they touch turn to gold. They research and look to see what inspires their idols what sets them apart from their peers. They want to be what there idols are and they hope to inspire people in the future themselves.  As I don’t see anything wrong with that, I do feel however that they are looking in the wrong direction for what they want.  They’re getting lost. They don’t realise that these people they so admire, were just ordinary people like them when they were younger, but instead of following what someone else was doing, they chose to be only inspired and to forge there own path, and by Looking inside themselves, They found something they loved to do more than anything else and made a career out of it. 

Its only after watching a number of documentaries on the industry and fashion photographers that this felt clearer to me. 

Film list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCKx72zhbUU Beaton by Bailey

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4swPSq5gY0 The September Issue

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9kUljPTpss BBC documentary Mario Testino

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S678bcdXsag Fame, Fashion and Photography: Bailey 70's.