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VERA AUTUMN-WINTER FASHION VIEWS
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  • Autumn and winter are way better seasons to display elaborate fashion combinations than the summer and even the spring. Whether it rains, it snows or it is cold, whether it is cloudy or sunny, if you have enough time for yourself, your body and mind altogether, you have plenty fashion games to play in the cold season.
  • Spring and Summer are the seasons of the instinctual attraction, but fashion is much more than that. Looking the way you intended to, will make you not only confident, but also original and creative.
  • Fashion, like any other discipline, is a matter of training. Spending the whole winter in a pair of dirty jeans and claiming that you just "Wait for the spring" in order to change your style, won't help you much. In the spring time, you will take randomly from the closet a mini skirt, convinced that this is the key that will open the doors to success. It is simplistic and it is wrong. Fashion requires hours, days, years of training, of play with the colours, textures, shapes.
  • I have hoticed that, year by year, the global fashion tendency is to "forget about ourselves". The shops of the fashion designers have become "saint" museums, visited randomly by tourists. The World, split in proletarians and rich, tends with each day that passes by to forget about art, to defy fashion, to refuse having any understanding of it.
  • Fashion is first and foremost art. It is not a Wallet stuffed with dollars. You don't need to find a gold mine in order to look good and optimal. You don't need a rich guy to support you in order to have a crazy funky look. All you need is a good body, time and imagination. The rest just comes naturally.
  • That is why I have this advice for anybody out there: there are times of crisis, they say, but when haven't they been? We encounter financial problems every day, so do not "clean" your house regularly of whatever you think that it is not necessary anymore. An assorted fancy clasp, an outdated belt that suddenly is in again or grandma's lace gloves make more than a wallet of money. Fixing the old stuff is funny and relaxing. You will also have a satisfaction when you will see whatever your hands have just made. Rely on intelligence, on inventivity rather than on spending bunches of money on clothing.
  • Spending more and more time at work, not only the physical time which, naturally, don't allow them to pay the same attention to fashion like they did in the past, the proletarians have easily and insidiously become a mass of maneuver. Brainwashed and tired, fat and indebted, proletarians have not only the legs and the hands hammer-locked in work, but also their brains. The fascination for money which can buy goods made by others' hands, allienated them to the point where they gave up completely to fashion, to sport, to thinking, in a word to themselves, wearing idiotic tshirts printed with slogans and rusty dirty jeans.
  • What is responsible for this transformation? The main problem is the generalized lack of time related to globalization, but there is another problem, which happens to be interconnected with the first. The lack of time and the extremely busy and boring day-to-day schedule makes people flat, artistically speaking. The brutal work kills their imagination. The natural creative energy is turned into dust, stress and unconscious frustration.
  • People now prefer to forget about their beauty, health and brains. Sport and performing relaxing and spiritually motivating activities are outdated. Now just the money are in. Fashion is the art of improving our physical image, but it is the psyche which judges, which improves, which designs, which combines and it evolves with each parapraph read, with each analysis that you make, whether it is political, medical or a fashion style analysis. Its creative energy resides in its freedom of thinking, in exercising this freedom.
  • When going in vacation, the proletarian has got used with the idea that he just needs a tshirt, eventually with some pornographic monstrosities written on it, a swimming suit, whether or not it is fit on him and some rubber slippers. The proletarians nowadays expect to see the bar girls dancing for them, while they feel inept and unable to make 4 steps and 4 moves and to glitter themselves. Full of complexes and devoid of energy, they are too lazy to think, too lazy to dress up, too lazy to dance, to lazy to try to look all right. This approach is stuck, simplistic and doesn't bring any physical nor moral benefit to anyone who embraces it.
  • I have a classical view on fashion, rather than weird, I suppose. Fashion is the action of putting your natural charm on record. It is a theatre play and it is short. At the end of the day, the actor puts off his make-up and returns to his natural look. Piercing and tattooes is not the way, since after the part came to an end, you still have the "costumes" on.
  • I am against that million of bars, perfumes and creams. I'm rather for accessories, for silk and glitterring outfits which just can't miss from a vacation on the beach and not even from the day to day life. The colours and the fit combinations give life to the gloom, they lighten the darkness, the sadness of the mind.
  • The global idea injected in you is to forget it. To forget that even you could be in that dancer's place with a bit of training. While you continue to confuse bar dancers with prostitutes, you let yourself go. Nobody or very few think that they could actually learn something from the way they dance. You have a job and that's all you have. You are not allowed to do anything else other than to bury your health and beauty in a place that causes physical and mental disturbances. This behaviour generally applies to people who don't care about fashion and looks on a regular basis and they are scarily many.
  • But, back to the cold seasons. We all have shortcomings and the cold seasons are a great way to mask them, by putting many assorted clothes on. Dresses, long boots, long coats... There are billions of combinations that you can make in order to cover your body with taste, guts or you can go further to the playmate style if you dare.
  • But people are generally inert. They are too tired because of the job and too dizzy because of the cold and the rain, because of the gloomy winter days. The modern mentality about fashion is much more stuck than 20 or 30 years ago, when women were encouraged to wear miniskirts and to be fancy.
  • Now the jeans' pest seems to have invaded the whole planet, coming like an epidemic, from the West to the East. People don't even compete anymore for clothing. They now have other things to care and to think about, like: a new mobil phone, a new car or a new house, the bigger the better, bought with tonnes of loans taken from the banks. So what if they are fat? So what if they don't have time to move their bodies outdoors? A big car will make them happy, will bring them the eternal love that they have never had access to.
  • The capitalist society wants to transform us in worms, in garbage slaves. And how could a garbage slave think of fashion? For he who has no time and whose brain is tired and killed by the day-to-day routine, how could he dare to think of getting out from that monotony, how could he dare to ever regain the skills of the colours, to learn the meaning and the beauty of the art of fashion?
  • People often tell me about simplicity. Simplicity being refined. Simplicity doesn't necessarily mean style. No, actually where the things are very simple, they are simple and this is it. I have seen a few models looking fantastic and making from a boring dress something spectacular, but these moments are extremely rare. It was the model who gave life to the non-creation and not vice-versa. Simplicity is for naturally beautiful people, for people with good skin, with very symmetrical face features. In this case simplicity just outlines, not defines.
  • I personally like complicity in fashion. Fashion has colour rules and to me these colour rules are probably too drastic. I rarely mix more than 2 colours in a single outfit. I rarely wear prints. Animal print is probably the only exception.
  • I never wear slogans.
  • I like glittering things, from big jewelry to shiny blouses and trousers. I like strong colours which provide a strong impact with a neutral colour like black or white, or like beige.
  • I like a lot of golden and silvery clothes, boots and accessories, combined with high quality wool textiles.
  • For this winter my favourite outfit will probably be the wool lamb piece that I just bought, combined with shiny silvery accesories and with high boots, which are a must for this season.