Day 50 From the Few Items Fashionistas to Imre Makovecz

50 days of blogging, wow!
I do find people, who don’t care about fashion at all and wear the same couple of pairs of jeans and a few T-Shirts all the time without any allure of trying to fit in or out of any style – directions, fascinating. All of those people have different ways of displaying what the majority does through fashion. Most likely they are the most sustainable fashionistas of the world and they don’t even know about it. The beauty of fashion and anything to do with clothes is that we are all part of the game even if we don’t want to be or don’t care about the whole thing at all. Fashion surrounds us since the first man thrown an animal skin on his shoulder. Let`s not start an argument what was first woven textiles or animal fur. I am a country girl, who has a deep grown intimate relationship with nature and what it gives to mankind from many centuries, what`s more thousands of years. (I am not undermining here our non-environmental friendly last few decades, even century.) I am talking about the purity of our original relationship with nature. Growing up in a village makes life more connected to the life cycle of the surrounding flora and fauna. The birth and death of both are part of a well written and well-practised gigantic piece of music played by a symphonic orchestra. On a farm one learns to accept these lifecycles the ducks hatch they grow, they are fed, they get plucked, they are fed more and on the way there is always one-or two who won`t make it. That is life. And we have to accept it.
Life cycle is one of the most complex relationships between the planned and the unplanned. And when we walk on corridors that make us cry or feel at ease in places we know we are undoubtedly taking part in this journey of complexity. That is happening everywhere around us, wherever we look whatever we see is part of this complexity. That is the same with fashion. We create lifecycles within products, we decide during the design (planning) process what the item is going to be made out of, what it is going to be worn for and how long for? But the true essence of this design (planning) process needs to be defined by a goal. And what that goal is defined by is the personal belief in an idea. And what that idea is fed on defines the product`s lifecycle. Is it to make people feel good about themselves? Is it to create something that is needed? Is it about durability? Or is it about more profit?
`Fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.` (Oscar Wilde)
Nowadays every 6 weeks. Life cycle is shrinking, shrinking, shrinking and shrinking, creating more and more and more and more profit.
I just watched a programme about Imre Makovecz (http://www.makovecz.hu/) the famous Hungarian architect. I can`t find words to describe how considerate his organic design process is. "...a house where life revolves around the centre, resembles life itself; a being, a kind of being which takes on man's functions, spiritual, physical and intellectual, and not a 'machine for living'. . . My concept of a 'building being' means this." (Imre Makovecz)