As a teenager I loved to dress up. To colour my hair. To stick out with my style. Fashion was fun. And a sort of brace to grow into the person I wanted to be. Later there was a phase where I thought that fashion and looks is something superficial and that I don´t need it anymore. I dismissed it as something not important. But I soon realised again that this whole thing is way more profound. And consciously or subconsciously we tell something with this second cover of our body. Our story. On my recent 12-hour train trip I had plenty of time to read and stumbled over an interesting interview with German designer Guido Maria Kretschmer. One of his statements was that “Within the freedom that fashion gives us, you need to make sure, that you don´t give any promise that you can´t hold.” Meaning that if you dress in a certain style but this doesn´t really reflect your real personality, you might not be understood in the right way from your surrounding. And he continues saying: “Some people wear their whole biography on the outside. So everyone immediately sees, what they do, what they have or don´t have. Because they don´t understand that fashion is also magic. And fashion is a shell, that can protect you.”
image misssingrid by Palma Wright
words by Sigrun Guggenberbger
