"The Vogue Woman"

I'm still only in my 'teens', so I do not know much, and I accept that. So 40 whatever year olds don't come howling at me because I'm trying to figure out the 'vogue woman' whens the odds may be that I wouldn't have a clue, because you were there with Turlington and I'm here with this Agyness Deyn shit. Hear me out, I may have come close.

I recently got my hands on a book called 'The art of vogue covers 1909 - 1940", by William Packer with an introduction by Lady Diana Cooper. And it was amazing. Cover to cover, filled with hand drawn languid and humble forms adorned with the fabrics that gave birth to Vanity's celebrity status, it shows, in every sketch the beginnings of the art, the everlasting style, of Vogue. And it made me wonder, with all our fashion schools churning out the 'young and innovative' all the Siriano's, Pugh's, Anna Plunkett's and Luke Sales', pushing the boundaries of abstract and vulgar to try place the nought-ies on the fashion time-line, with all this welcomed change and eagerness towards 'the future', does the porcelain recumbent woman in the withered pages of my old book, covered in peacock feathers, pearls and ra-ra's, still stand? Or is she just tossed aside as 'vintage'?

Its established that fashion moves forward with the decades and aspires to address the present with the bold new ideas of tomorrow. So, it reflects greatly on the designers of its current generation. The last few decades have shown a very productive transition of the legendary houses Dior, Chanel, Lanvin, Loewe changing their creative directors to suit the contemporary fashion market. And in doing so, Galliano, Lagerfield, Elbez and recently, Stuart Ververs have made for themselves signatures to go down in history. However, the question is now, in 09 with the big ten looming. What have we got to show for the early 2000's? What will go down in the fashion books pf 2090? What will be proclaimed as 'vintage' then? This leads me to speculate our upcoming designers who will dress our generation, who will dress me, what do they have to offer?

Predominantly, I see a rise of the eclectic and carefree, and though it may be a refreshing perspective, it makes me think about the mindset of our contemporary designers, which leads me to think of our contemporary youth, and, our generation. What's the mentality of the 00's? It's said that what you wear, reflects who you are and vice versa. What are our clothes saying about us? With youth culture sitting hand in hand with facebook, youtube, twitter, ipods and mac books, I wonder, is this the rise of personal freedom and individuality or just self obsession? It seems, that the free-thinking individuals of our generations are not so easy to find, with blogs and online profiles making it so easy for us to "express ourselves" and pushing us to show off our individuality, how do we filter through the bullshit?