Comme des Garcons

Comme des Garcons,  is a Japanese fashion label founded by and headed by Rei Kawakubo. This label began as a side business for styling projects, etc in Tokyo. In the late sixties has morphed into a $180 million fashion empire with over 200 franchises around the globe. With rustic denim womenswear inspired by Japanese peasantry, Rei Kawakubo set up over 100 Comme des Garçons (French for “like some boys”) shops across Japan in the seventies. Then the 80's Rei  brought her own collection to Paris. That include black silhouettes in a mystery way. Though earlier pieces bent the edge of avant-garde—think three-armed jackets, face-shielding turtlenecks, form-fitting gingham numbers stuffed with down bulges in monochrome black—recent collections have been a bit more mainstream, with suits from gold- and silver tweed, Rolling Stone tongue patterns, and floral-motif dresses. Her overall collections are very interesting in a unique way. It's definitely something I've never seen before and that's very rare. I overall see that each collection tells its own story and is not misguided in anyway. Sure, every collection tells it's story, but her just stands out more because of the uniqueness and the avant-garde. Overall from looking through all her collections of the most avant-garde is her FALL 2017 collection.

Source: http://nymag.com/thecut/fashion/shows/2017/fall/paris/rtw/comme-des-garcons.html

Manufactured Fibers

Manufactured fibers surround you and everything. They are incorporated with your clothing furniture, basically everywhere you go. Rayon was the first to be to produce fibers. It was followed by the acetate. These fibers, along with triacetate and lyocell, are made from cellulose, the fibrous substance in plant life. Combing molecules of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon makes most other manufactured fibers. New manufactured fibers are being developed through research efforts all the time. The raw material and chemicals used to make manufactured fibers can vary. They all go through the same basics before they become fibers. Although there are many ways to modify manufactured fibers, each kind of fiber has some typical characteristics. There are other manufactured fibers, but these are used more for specialized protective clothing.

Goals

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Goals the object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result. My personal short term goal is to start being more organized and focused academically, at work, and over just in everything. For example keeping my grades balanced, being social with friends and family, maintaining my room neat, and just keeping my life together. My long term goal, is actually a bit the same as my short term goal, but this case is just more of maintaining good grade so I could go to college and to star saving money. Since I started working back a year ago, I never really had the idea of saving because I was fifteen, and I was young of course. But now that am at the verge of turning 18, I'm realizing that life is stressful and you basically can't do things without money. So saving money is one of my biggest goals. Goals in general are important to have because, I feel that without them your lost. I believe that everything and everyone needs a foundation or base to start something new or different.

Natural Fibers

Natural fibers include:cotton. wool, linen, silk, polyester, cashmere, and many more. These fibers are more Eco friendly and better for our environment. These types of fibers are the foundation of the fabrics, it's like a small hair spanned. One of the most interesting things about about wool is that it's
used in cosmetic, shampoo, ointment, etc. In the other hand silk comes from a worm! Yes a worm. How crazy to think that the insects gave use clothing. From the egg it gives us worm, then it gives us leaves, and then the cocoon's heat. In addition we also have cotton the most commonly used fiber! We wear more than any other fiber because it's cheaper and it's a product we buy. Cotton is more breathable fabric. It's absorbent and it keeps you cool. Cotton comes from and plant or a seed fiber.

Lastly we have, linen, that comes from a flax plant.  Linen is laborious to manufacture, but the fiber is very absorbent and garments made of linen are valued for their exceptional coolness and freshness in hot weather. Cotton is similar to linen.
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Spring Denim Essentials

Spring has arrived and denim is in! I would've never thought that denim would pair up so well with the spring weather. Usually when people talk about spring outfits, it's all about the flow shirts, pants, boho looks, floral prints, silks, sandals, etc. Now, we are in a different era and denim is in trend. From not only pants, but tops, jackets, skirts, dresses etc. I personally never thought about it, but I came to a realization that I personally have started wearing denim looks, from vest to pants and as well as jackets! I think that denim give a more edgy look, but yet vintage as well. Which is crazy to think that those two aspects would ever come to mind. Recently, I've been to a few thrift stores like GoodWill and Savers and I have found many denim wear there! To come to think that this trend would be a thrift stores is amazing. It also fits by budget, other stores carry denim wear as well, but in the end you end up spending so much, when you can easily find that same jacket at Savers. My recommendation is that if you're recently now fitting in to the trend is looking for that denim top. Your first should be a thrift store. It's cheaper and it's more better for our environment.
Source: http://fashionista.com/2017/04/shop-spring-denim-clothing-shorts-jackets-2017

Critical Thinking

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Critical thinking: the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment. In the world of fashion critical thinking is a language. -"Language is a system of communication that involves a set of arbitrary symbols" (pg. ... - Fashion is a universal field, involving many different languages, races, genders and forms of communication. Critical thinking in the fashion world is extremely important because you always want to decided what looks best, what goes with what, what to combine etc. You don't want to create something that's not well formed or created. So in this case you really want to think about every detail, decision, etc. One way you will diffidently use critical thinking is when deciding what your collection is going to be. I personally think its a very difficult decision. You want your collection to be as unique and stunning as possible. It's very hard to think about this and as well as to keep your collection through the making of it and the buying, too.

The fashion industry

Fast fashion and fashion in general is harming our planet and is one of the second dirtiest industries. "Fashion is a complicated business involving long and varied supply chains of production, raw material, textile manufacture, clothing construction, shipping, retail, use and ultimately disposal of the garment". Many people don't realize or aren't informed that it takes up to 5,000 gallons to create a shirt...This is outrageous! Not only are we harming our planet by intoxicating it, but were being wasteful. I agree with Fisher's opinion about this industry. This world of fashion is a mess! We use a crazy "amount of natural resources used in extraction, farming, harvesting, processing, manufacturing and shipping". My opinion towards this is we can't stop producing clothing, but we can't stop how they are poorly being made. We should eliminate the parts that are harming our planet and turn them Eco-friendly. Another alternative is that we should as well produce clothing using other materials. Overall, I feel like more designers should deal with the true facts about this industry.