realistic disclaimer

The real reason anymore, especially me, likes fashion is because its pretty. We're attracted to things aesthetically, whether they have intense intellectual grounding or none at all.

For example, I've been reading a lot about Hussein Chalayan and his use of the mirror in conjunction with performativity (for example, in his 1998 show Panoramic) to "reverse the relationship between voyeur and subject, and challenge the way we define cultural and geographic territory in space [and explore] negative space around the body" (Caroline Evans).  I want to completely accept this objective and praise Chalayan for completely conceptualizing his work as a challenge to the naturalized codes of beauty and fashion, but that cannot be the case. Aesthetic appeal, shock value, and above all (or beneath all) economics all play the same role in every piece of fashion.
So as much as i would like to academicize fashion into theory and go back to Brown spreading the intellectual gospel of studying fashion-- that's really not the point. And i need to keep that in mind as I continue to produce.