I said…
Fashion is gendered
fashion is racialized
fashion is traditional
fashion is cultured
fashion is multilingual
fashion is colored
fashion is queer
fashion is sexual
Fashion has a language
fashion is global
fashion is a state of economy
fashion is in Black and White
fashion is fake
fashion is fickle
Who decides what is or not?
Fashion is about you
and I
fashion is gay
fashion is Us
Fashion is my skin
fashion is the body
Hair is fashion
Fashion is Be-ing
Fashion is chemicalized
fashion is medicinal
fashion is botoxed
fashion is industry
Sanitized is fashion
Fashion is marginalized
fashion is homophobia
Sensational is fashion
Fashion is moneyed
Think– dollars, rands, yen, pounds, euros, pula…
fashion is an expression
fashion is my religion
Fashion is brutal
fashion is blind
bound
bent
bloody
Let Fashion Be…
Fashion is about production
fashion is political
corrupt
and corrupted
Fashion is racist
fashion is mixed – emotions
and emotional
fashion is camouflaged
Fashion is this, that, there, then
fashion is about time, timing, timelines
lifelines
Vintage is fashion
fashion is intergenerational
fashion is older than us
than you
fashion is young
fashion is no-sense
fashion is sex/sexual/sexuality
is sensual
Fashion is your mother,
your father,
your sister,
your brother,
your cousin,
your granny
with grey-ed hair
wisdom
Fashion is my family
and yours too
fashion is about relations
about relationships
we, humans communicate
through fashion
Yes
Fashion is universal beyond words
fashion is visual
if not photographic too
fashion revokes conflicts
Africa is where the fashion sense
content
context
Fashion is contained
Sexuality is not a fashion trend
We are all consumed by fashion
Ideas…
by Zanele Muholi
© 2014
