Love this Q and my answer is noooo ๐ When people say this re: fashion (and beauty too) I think they really mean something along the lines of โIโm dressing about myself.โ But if we position fashion/beauty as a form of expression and communication, it must inherently involve an other โ someone or something we are communicating to, and a reason beyond the self that weโre communicating for. This isnโt a bad thing! Communicating with other people via aesthetics is normal and human and has been happening since the dawn of time!! Ugh lol I reallyyyyy hate this modern/Western view that everything we do should be purely individually motivated and 100% about the person as an individual. Weโre communal creatures! Fashion/beauty is a communal/communicative pursuit! So yeah generally I think we adorn our bodies about ourselves but for others. Canโt wait to read what youโre working on ๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป
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