Quite infallibly, there are people around us who strongly stand by the idea that fashion lovers are either gay (if they're male) or they're stuck-up snobs (for the want of a purely contemporary word). I refuse to allow these people to harbour these feelings since, for the most part, they're wrong. Even if I have to say so myself. Nowhere in the world does a profession have anything to do with your gender; to some extent, it has a lot to do with your personality because personality is momentous in determining what you produce and how you produce it. Quite frankly, gender's relation to work is a washed out phenomena that died with the advent of feminism and well, modernism. The extents to which we associate people with their professions is quite absurd. Does this mean that when I pass a construction site and see an effeminate man erecting a building, I should cringe?
Maybe not...I wouldn't. It would seem completely out place but does not put me in a position to assume anything about the man or judge him.
This brings me to the central concern of this post. Fashion lovers or Fashionistas aren't always gay or stuck-up. It's just like art and has a lot to do with the variations of colour, moods, textures and creativity. Like art-lovers, fashion lovers are immersed in what suites them best and what they love. There are people who are stuck up, by default or because they live with the misconcept of fashion giving you free will to be stuck up. This, however does not apply to all people who love fashion. Perhaps your closest friend is a little delusional and stuck up and loves fashion, you can't stand her personality and so you blame fashion. Doll, I think you need to think outside the box for the moment. This is not your father complaining about his tedious meetings and making his job sound like admin for Lucifer down there. It's fashion and your friend's stuck-up-ness probably has something to do with the personality she has cultivated from false impressions and misinterpretations of the world of #Fabulosity.
As for the assumption that all men who are into fashion are gay....Well, a great deal of them of are but this does not eliminate the fact that many straight men share a passion for fashion. Perhaps they're intrigued by the more technical side of it (such a side should exit) or perhaps they're attracted to the model walking the ramps or standing behind the camera. We'd never know. But I think at this point it's safe to assume that fashion, like every field of interest is open to even those beyond the boundaries of femininity or stuck-up-ness.
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