Thoughts of a Hungry Mind

Tonight I saw Terminator Salvation. It is a very well crafted movie with an unproductive offering to the advancement of the Terminator... franchise, as some might call it. John Conner stays alive with the help of the hitherto cyborg which was created for the purpose of, guess what? Killing John Conner. More of that for you within the movie. However, the good thing about this movie is that it has acted as a catalyst for my own thoughts and I feel I've approached something worth articulating.

You know where this is going, right?

So looking at this from the sartorial angle, the importance of clothing was easily seen as it was an identification of which flank one was associated with. In this case, the Resistance against Sky Net, identified themselves with a red stripe on the arm to imply the work that they have done for the Resistance. At this time in the movie, after the "Judgment Day" (when a massive amount of people died for the sake of idk by the hand of SkyNet) the only survivors are humans working for the resistance and common peddlers who violently steal other means of living. So, within this context, the wardrobe for this movie could only be specific to the charaters capacity to find clothing for the spartan conditions of the human-less domain around them. This is where this becomes interesting for me.

A collection of clothes, high fashion or not, has an aundience by which to appeal and contribute to. The majority of the human species value clothing to dress themselves. But there are those of us who do not have the oppertunity to have a selection of clothing because of the logistics of what companies are willing to create. Individualistic design elements are present in the expensive clothing, along with quality aspects that can make an item practically only available in small expensive numbers. A high fashion designer's gift to the world. We call this high fashion, which acts as a source for "Fast Fashion," drooling fashion minions and publications that process it for it's own consumers. Then there is "Fast Fashion," which works in a way that mimic the topical collective trends of high fashion, but minimally approach a practical quality standards. What we have is a system of fashion working to make money by (at it's highest levels) producing orginal design for limited amounts of people and (at it's lower levels) simply selling clothes.

Here births my own design philosphy for which I want to take to change the world. (Ambitious, isn't he?) Now, I say this still with an open mind, but still trying to make a point. Personally, I think it is disqusting to see an elephantine amount of people dressing the same. I would love to make it a point, while appealing to the masses, to provide people with the means to be individuals through dressing. This is possibly all the product of feeling trapped amoungst the mass market's bind on me because of what it provides. Which leads me to the essential part of what I really need right now to vent my sartorial motivations of the moment.