I wonder how we always love the design and the creativity of our favorite designers, while they are not dressing themselves that well. Many of the fashion designers I know rarely dress as well as what they have created. You know right... when we went to a hair salon, we will see and pay attention to our new hair dresser, whether he/she is professional or not, just by looking at his/her own hair look. I don't know about all of you.. but I do sometimes take the credibility of their performance by looking at how they treat or manage themselves. Another example will be: when a sales person is talking to us about a beauty product and how good the product is to the skin, but her skin itself is not healthy, then how would we trust her? Is she credible to what she said? This will not be the same when we want to perceive fashion. There are anti-fashion and the phrase so called "fashion-disaster". The way of perceiving fashion might be different from each person.
Some designers are born to be trendsetters and some are followers. The trendsetters always think out of the box, beyond my imagination sometimes. Look at Mr. Marc Jacobs, it was a shock to me at the first 5 seconds that he is wearing a black skirt with an exclusive Hermes bag in his hand. It was something new, something for people to talk about.
In my opinion personally, he looks kind of awful, imagine him walking the streets, I would drop my chin. But hey! let's look at it in a different point of view. These trendsetters have always been inspiration to many others throughout the world. They sense fashion as an art; and we can't argue about art and taste, am I right?
Therefore, after that 5 seconds, I changed my mind, and decided that I like this picture very much. Not a picture you often see. He is standing there confidently because he has his own perception towards fashion, and he likes it this way. Although I think he might not be a good influence as a fashion icon, however he has been a great fashion designer. Mr. Marc Jacobs has been an inspiration to me and the part of his right brain has taken much of our attention these days through Vuitton to his own collections.
