With human evolution and as the basic needs are met, we start to evolve & expand our inner perceptions for what surrounds us directly while emerging – naturally – new challenges when it comes to self-actualisation. Like that, fashion or fashion-related products become an expression of our creativity & enable a feeling of achievement. Ready…
Not only your clothes define a thing or two regarding what society perceives from you, but your hairstyle can reveal big surprises regarding their understanding of your fashionable personae. So, what defines you more…clothes, hair or a hybrid of these two?
The fashionable personae is understood as a situated, narrative, and performative character developed by bloggers specifically for their blogs that is anchored simultaneously in the blogger’s self-identity and in the enactment of collective cultural narratives.
in Monica Titton (2015) Fashionable Personae: Self-identity and Enactments of Fashion Narratives in Fashion Blogs, Fashion Theory, 19:2, 201-220
Self-representation is defined as “a statement of facts, reasons, etc., made in appealing or protesting; a protest or remonstrance”. This is part of my findings while questioning myself – & afterwards, the #BeYOUtiful people on my Instagram – about why I became to dress in a disruptive way in the countryside when compared to the…