Fashion and beauty

What is fashion and what is beauty? On the one hand, these questions are very simple. Fashion is something that changes every season, something that appears on the pages of glossy magazines year after year, something that is customary to wear at the moment. What is considered beautiful. And what, then, is beauty? Beauty is what is accepted, this is canon, this is what is considered beautiful at a given moment in time, here and now. What is beautiful, we are told from the pages of glossy magazines. A vicious circle of eternal relationships between beauty and fashion. Beauty - after all, it is also a fashion, or rather, there is a fashion for beauty.

We will not go deep into history, just hint a little that in each era there were their own ideas about beauty. So, for example, thinness was not always appreciated - remember the paintings of Rubens. But not only in time does the idea of ​​beauty change, but also in space. For example, in one of the tribes of Africa, long women's necks were highly valued, for which they were pulled out with special rings, which girls began to wear from an early age. The ideas of beauty also varied depending on the estates. So, in Europe, women with magnificent forms were highly valued among the peasants, which testified to their health, but among the aristocracy, thinness and pallor of the skin began to be appreciated, as a symbol of sophistication and special sophistication.

And they also say that beauty is internal. However, such an idea of ​​beauty is very characteristic of idealists - no matter how a person looks, the main thing is what is in his soul. The soul must be beautiful. But here's a strange coincidence - not so often those who are ugly have a beautiful soul. And again, let's remember what people say - the inner has an outer reflection, the inner beauty is reflected on the person's face.

So many opinions. And in the end, everyone will have their own idea of ​​beauty.

So what is beauty and why is fashion interesting?

Once we interviewed people who are in any way connected with the world of fashion and beauty, below are their answers to the eternal questions - what is beauty? what is fashion?

Natalia Pampukha, plus size model.

Natalya, what do you think a truly handsome person should be? What, in your opinion, is beauty?

My views are in no way at odds with the general. A handsome man is one who shines from within, who lives in harmony with himself. Beauty is not centimeters. Love yourself and you will be loved and beautiful to those around you.

Katya Rashkevich
She creates magical worlds. She is a photographer. She does not photograph reality. She creates fairy tales.

Your idea of ​​beauty. What should be a handsome person?

What a difficult question :) If we talk about visual perception, then everyone has their own, so it's hard to say. And spiritual beauty .... In my opinion, there are people to whom you involuntarily reach out. It is easy to communicate with them and in friendship. They seem to glow and you always feel very easy next to them :) Although it seems to me that now it is very difficult to be a beautiful person for real, there are too many temptations and too little time to reflect on yourself and your actions.

She is 17, she is a high school senior. She lives in Riga. She speaks fluent French and English, knows German. Her name is the same as Charlie Chaplin's wife. Her name is Una... She is a blogger, fashion blogger. And she's already being interviewed.

Una, what is fashion for you, why are you interested in it?

I had a real interest in fashion when I was a child, when I was spinning magazines in my mother's hands and looking at photos with girls in chic clothes. Now interest is growing with my blog. Indeed, for its development, first of all, I myself must develop and grow.)

Ekaterina P. from Ukraine... She is older, she has already graduated from the university, she is a journalist by education.She is also a fashion blogger.

If I had been told 4 years ago that I would ever be seriously interested in fashion, I would have considered it a very bad joke. Surprisingly, it was 4 years ago that I first picked up the Russian version of the Harper's Bazaar magazine. Moreover, it was bought not out of interest in fashionable novelties, but to prepare for a seminar on journalism. It was an April issue: spring bows, interesting articles and talented editing of the then still Anzor Kankulov could not fail to impress. That's how it all started, - writes Ekaterina on the pages of her blog.

Vika... Vika is from Belarus. She is also a journalist and also a fashion blogger.

Why fashion? Why is fashion interesting for you?
Fashion has fascinated me since childhood - I loved trying on my mother's and grandmother's outfits, shoes, I could spend hours looking at jewelry from their boxes, I loved dressing dolls - I sewed them clothes myself. Then glossy magazines appeared, which further increased my interest in fashion. At the same time, I never wanted to become a clothing designer - I dreamed of becoming a fashion journalist.

Initially, fashion is interesting to me for its power of transformation, constant passion for renewal, art of combining the incompatible.

Another Catherinebut she is from Russia. And she is, yes, also a journalist and fashion blogger. A very popular fashion blogger, designers themselves invite her to fashion shows.

Today you are a well-known fashion blogger. What do you think is the purpose, the raison d'être of fashion blogs?

The goal is to share something interesting with your readers that you know well. As if you had a hobby and you would tell your friends about it - revealing little secrets, sharing personal experience.

Raya the oldest of the girls. She lives in Spain.

In addition to a blog dedicated to Spain and fashion from Spain, you are also the creator of a community about style and fashion. Who do you think is the main audience of this community, who actively writes to it and who reads?

We conceived our Style_Community together with Anais-et-Chloe as a place where anyone can ask any question about fashion. But as a result, the community took on a life of its own, and took the form of more of a fashion magazine - where the latest trends and style are discussed not only on the street and catwalks, but also in music, decor and cinema.

We are open to everyone, and we have practically no moderation, as we have gathered an extremely intelligent and polite audience. We only remove ads.

In a little over a year, we have almost 800 blogger subscribers and up to 2000 daily visitors.

But men also write about fashion. Today, many men do not mind playing this game called fashion. Maga is a journalist and fashion blogger.

Magicianwhy fashion? Why is fashion interesting for you?
Since childhood, I had a special feeling for clothes and fabrics, because as a child, staying with my grandmother on weekends, we cut with her. For me it was a fascinating process from shading with a bar of soap to the sound of a Singer machine working. I cannot boast of an impeccable style, but it is always interesting to contemplate this or that phenomenon in fashion from the inside.

Which of the designers, perhaps both Western and Russian, are you interested in?

I am interested in those who know how to play what is called fashion and do not strive to reinvent the wheel from season to season. There are undisputed geniuses, like Alexander McQueen or John Galliano, whose work you can admire endlessly. To say that someone likes more and someone less, in my opinion, is not entirely correct, since in the collections of many designers you can sometimes find something of your own.

“I am interested in those who know how to play what is called fashion” and this is a very beautiful game. A game that can give you a lot of pleasant emotions and a lot of interesting acquaintances. But only on condition that you are playing, not living. This game, called fashion, only loves those who fall into it by accident and do not take it seriously.

Well, if fashion is a game, isn't beauty also a game? We, humanity, invent an abstract concept, and then run after it, like a rare bird, which does not exist at all?

You know, if you plunge into the world of beauty and fashion and, leaving aside glossy magazines, and maybe professional literature, start reading so popular fashion bloggers, you will notice one interesting feature - it is boring to read fashion bloggers, but models are interesting. Yes, models also blog. But it is they who are today those ideals of beauty in the fashion world.

Why do models need blogs?

No, really, you never worried about this question? Why do these winged, eternally fluttering girls need blogs? Well, why? Obviously, photographers, they show the world their view of it. It is clear that journalists, philosophers, historians, sociologists, they tell the world about himself, as if he needs it ... It is clear psychologists, they tell people living in this world about their view of this world and their problems in this world, as if they need it ... But why are these girls blogging? After all, even with fashion bloggers everything is clear, they tell the world about fashion and beauty.

It's simple. Models tell the world about themselves. And this is the most correct thing that can be done for this world. It is worth talking only about ourselves, because only about ourselves we can know at least something. And only in knowledge and judgments about ourselves we can somehow be sure.

... Models are more interesting to read, they write about themselves ...

"Did you miss me? I don’t ... I don’t remember at all what you are. And I just don't know this ... When we first met, I was 15. What kind of boys are there - I just finished playing with dolls. And you were a grown man, deep, mature. No, I was not ashamed of you. I had no time for that. I fought. And I just didn’t notice you ”- about London. From the katsia_z blog.

What if there is depth in model blogs? Then the external beauty must still rely on something inside?

The eternal and insoluble dispute - what does it consist of that ghostly beauty, behind which from year to year, in heels and stiletto heels, in evening dresses and with manicure on nails, a whole half of humanity is tirelessly running, to which in recent years more and more adjoins the second half, the one that used to only admire beauty, but now, now, in our crazy age, has also decided to start an eternal run after her.