Fashion vs Tawdriness

Do you know the difference between Fashion vs Tawdriness? Have you ever thought where ends the line between style and tastelessness? In a world, where is accepted to judge on appearance, one of the most common fears – look ridiculous, absurd or inappropriate. On my previous article – Fashion vs. Social Trends – I wrote about how fashion entirely depends on acceptance and why it is so important to follow the trends.

However, the fashion industry has actively offer such fun products, which are in demand, even if they cost a thousand pounds. Sleepers with kittens, clutches as gums, crop tops with teddy bears – every fashion related person is actively buying with the words “Oh, what a cool thing!”. Let’s be honest and argue about how humour, combined with pop culture, formed the modern fashion and when is it better to quit with jokes.

Humour, fashion and intelligence are closely related. Handle things safely and without excessive reverence, mixed extraordinary accessories, clothes and shoes. One cannot do this without a sense of humour and a drop of estrangement. Many style icons were not just eccentrics, but brilliant and educated people.

Think of Lady Gaga, Peggy Guggenheim, Diana Vreeland or living legend Iris Apfel. The first fashion kitschers were surrealists at 20s of the XIX century, precisely a century ago. Lobsters as a dress prints, buttons in the form of candy and peanuts. Elsa Schiaparelli flirted with public perceptions of poor taste and invented shocking ideas together with Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau.

Fashion vs Tawdriness
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In the late ’70s for not a joke, but the rebellion of the punk movement has proposed the slogan “Anti-fashion is fashion”. This idea was realised in the 80th and 90th by Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano and Marc Jacobs. The most radical things were done by Moschino. The former illustrator of Versace wanted to make fun of overvaluation things, deride and undermine materialism and capitalism. He founded his clothing brand in 1983, but though soon it itself was turned into a successful business.

Kitsch and humour perfectly meet the needs of a wider audience for something elegant, but at the same time not too bombastic. A good example is a love of Americans’ stars to “semi-formal” and “ironic” along for secular outlets. However, if you do not take into account the eccentric pop idols and aesthetic views of stylists, a large part of the luxury brands audience still takes itself seriously. And sometimes fashion comes out from the streets. These Adidas Stan Smith trainers are the best example.