Author Archive for Libbie Allen

Fashion is a specifically human invention. Fundamentally personal and wholly man made, fashion is an avenue for explanation, enjoyment, recognition, camouflage, and utility. It is our attempt at a tactile representation of our fleeting conditions, influences, and imaginations. It is an ongoing experiment with our control over who we may or may not be in our own mind and in the eyes of others. Through our desire to design a "self," and for our own pleasure, we create walking, talking pieces of art. Part fantasy and part function, it may be frivolous, but fashion is always fun.