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The Fashion Industry’s Evil: Preventing Self-Love
Conformity ≠ Belonging
The fashion industry, and at large the beauty industry, is all about disrupting your relationship to yourself, and your ability to love yourself by throwing your world into chaos.
As a movement, and through the tools it deploys as an industry, the fashion and beauty industry as a whole, is insidious and manipulative. That’s its dark side; what the world suffers from, but rarely publicly acknowledges. And when they do, not enough anyway to topple down this industry, or overhaul it, as it should be.
One Size Fits All
The technique that came to be dubbed a “one size fits all” approach is at the root of the mold of conformity deployed by the fashion industry.
Originally, the intent was not particularly nefarious. “One size fits all” emerged as a result of consumerism sweeping over the (western) world, and the massive population waves migrating from suburbs to cities which transformed social structures in the wake of the industrial revolution.
That transformation meant fast-paced growth; more and more human needs needed to be served, and much faster at that. Suddenly, there no longer was time for carefully crafted, singular outfits fitted for every different occasions that you’d rotate to…
