Whenever I come across a fashion spread anywhere that has a Fashion Police lurking in some corner I wish I could just catch them by the neck and shake their bones till they rattle. That’s how much I hate them.
My reaction was triggered off after reading an article on OMG which ran a short piece on Jennifer Aniston’s new hairstyle. No, there’s nothing wrong about the article itself but the underlying message in the story, which I’m very aware of – people just can’t mind their own freaking business!
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| While these look right onstage, will it be easily accepted when someone decides to dress in one? |
By «Slava Zaitsev» Moscow Fashion House (Provided via email by)
Why does anyone want to care how another person dresses? What makes the Fashion Police, experienced or otherwise in the so-called fashion business they are in, think that they have better fashion sense? Half the time I noticed the very person who comments on another person’s “wrongly” put-together ensemble actually have them “wrong” on themselves as well.
I’ve watched several of these makeover reality shows and I balked all the time when the “victim” appeared at the end of the show looking worse than a Barbie.
Can you imagine putting ultra feminine clothes on a hardcore rocker simply because her friends want her to project the more feminine side to her? But what is exactly feminine in anyone’s eyes? Do two sets of eyes always agree on the same thing?
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| While everyone wants to look this stunning, not everyone is capable of it. |
In one of the series in one particular makeover reality show, the host, who is some kind of fashion Guru coaxed this female rocker to put on stilettos instead of her knee-length boots, tight knee-length skirt and vest and splatter madness amount of make-up on the poor woman.
Towards the end of the show you see this strange looking woman tottering about on the stage to “present” herself to her audience, who clapped incessantly at the “new” person. Right - new, fake and ugly. They completely stripped her off her identity, making her not even close to what she really is like.
Towards the end of the show you see this strange looking woman tottering about on the stage to “present” herself to her audience, who clapped incessantly at the “new” person. Right - new, fake and ugly. They completely stripped her off her identity, making her not even close to what she really is like.
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| Something as simple as these may not be as simple to put together for everyone. |
A makeover isn’t about stripping the person off her identity and transforming her to something she isn’t. My advice to fashion Gurus is to do their makeover according to what will work for the person and what that person aspires to improve. The "job" is to add and subtract where needed and not remove everything completely until the person feels lost about herself.
Gurus - do not make the person into what YOU want her to be but what the person wants herself to be.
Do your makeover on the rocker but give her stylish boots instead of 6-inch stilettos she can’t walk in. Give her some sexy, leather pants instead of tight skirt she feels uncomfortable in. Make her believe she can look just as attractive as any women in a body-hugging LBD by giving her the correct mix-and-match ensemble rocker-style.
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| Imagine if someone were to wear a similar skirt such as this but matches it with a different top, what do you think the Fashion Police would say? |
By Roberto Santorini (originally posted to Flickr as FASHION) [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
If Fashion Gurus can't have any common sense in dressing up someone then it's high time producers of makeover reality shows introduce a show that says Dress The Fashion Guru instead.
Now that would be fun!
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