The Fashion Culture

There are a lot of things that influence how fashion is today. In this post, I will be talking about how culture affects fashion today.

Indeed fashion is a never ending change, so is our culture. There are people like musicians, celebrities and the media could affect how we wear and how fashion is created. People, especially the young generation would try their best to look like their favorite icon and that's one of the ways how fashion culture start to change and expand.

Pop culture is created with a mixture of different elements from varieties of cultures. The Korean fashion culture has been brought up by Korean celebrities and the trend has never went down but up. It has already influenced many citizens not just Malaysia but a lot of people in the whole Asia. This example shows how culture and trend helps fashion grow in a very fast paste. Another example is Korean celebrity, G-Dragon, has slowly taking over the Fashion world with his popularity of being a member in a famous Korean pop groud called, G-Dragon. Fashion culture are influenced by people's likes and what they want to see. The Korean celebrities just know what young generation likes do they?

The fashion culture can also be affected by the surroundings. When there's a trend of dance going on around the neighborhood, the hip-hop fashion culture will soon rise but not in a very big area. Some T-Shirt that are normally sold in small sized clothes have varieties of typography on it but little do people know that it's also one of the hip-hop fashion culture, graffiti. Some fashion culture is around us but we never take notice of it because it have such a big variety.

The fashion culture can only be world wide or being called a "trend" can only happen when people are able to accept that culture. The culture can only be accepted when people recognize and find it comfortable.

For me, fashion culture has always been changing and a huge influence by many aspects. Different places, city or even country have their own fashion culture. Personally I feel that the fashion culture is what reflects the society they live in because fashion culture is influenced by trend, and trend is influenced by the society.


Research:

Fibre2fashion (n/a) Does Culture of Any Region Affect Its Fashion Trend. Available at: http://www.fibre2fashion.com/industry-article/6189/does-culture?page=1 (16 June 2016).

Into the Fashion (2010) Cultural Influences on Trend Forecasting. Available at: http://www.intothefashion.com/2010/01/cultural-influences-on-trend.html (Acessed 15 June 2016).

Post Magazine (2015) Fuelled by fashion, the Korean wave i taking the world by storm. Available at: http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1870798/fuelled-fashion-korean-wave-taking-world-storm (Accessed 15 June 2016).

The Sunday News (2015) Does pop culture influence fashion? Available at: http://www.sundaynews.co.zw/does-pop-culture-influence-fashion/ (16 June 2016).