INTERVIEWS WITH TWO FASHION STARS OF NORTHVIEW
MAX
Today in 2019 youth, we see fashion trends skyrocket like never before. Kids and young adults are now more aware of trends and different ways to style certain pieces. Even at Northview - an academic focused high school that is not in a fashionable city like New York - I am able to find some fashion idols. Max, with his cool hairstyle and unique taste on styling, has his own artistic voice. So I invited him for an interview!
Fashion, in Max’s eyes, is slowly becoming more androgynous/gender-less - more guys wearing skirts and accessories, and more women wearing suits.
“I am really happy to see that fashion is getting more genderless. People really don’t care what they wear anymore, like Billie Eilish, she dresses with more baggy clothes but I love her style. She’s really setting the bars as to what people can wear now.”
Max added, "Fashion is now becoming more risk taking with less and less people thinking/caring about what people think about them and their clothes. The youth are now taking way more leaps with their clothes than past generations, taking more inspiration from runways and even past decades."
I asked Max why teens are now taking such big leaps with their clothing. “It really lets people express themselves,” stated Max. "Kids experiment more with fitting, patterns and colors, not caring about silhouettes or if patterns go well together. It’s become more acceptable to wear what you want. New styles and trends are going crazy on social media.”
Max made a good point here, about how much social media has shaped how the youth look at fashion and the accessibility of it, with Instagram models skyrocketing and fashion YouTubers teaching teens about trends and how to wear clothing. Social media plays a huge role on designers, especially young ones. Because they know more about events and trends, it’s easier to design to a broader audience.
For now, we don’t know what fashion may be like in the future - hopefully, it’ll be wilder. Maybe it’ll look more futuristic, playing a lot with materials not normally used for clothes. Maybe we’ll jump back generations, exploring how past decades dressed. I asked Max for thoughts on the future of fashion. “I feel like fashion in the future will be more unique and more strange,” Max said, and honestly, I gotta give this one to you because I think you’re absolutely right.
“I am really happy to see that fashion is getting more genderless. People really don’t care what they wear anymore, like Billie Eilish, she dresses with more baggy clothes but I love her style. She’s really setting the bars as to what people can wear now.”
Max added, "Fashion is now becoming more risk taking with less and less people thinking/caring about what people think about them and their clothes. The youth are now taking way more leaps with their clothes than past generations, taking more inspiration from runways and even past decades."
I asked Max why teens are now taking such big leaps with their clothing. “It really lets people express themselves,” stated Max. "Kids experiment more with fitting, patterns and colors, not caring about silhouettes or if patterns go well together. It’s become more acceptable to wear what you want. New styles and trends are going crazy on social media.”
Max made a good point here, about how much social media has shaped how the youth look at fashion and the accessibility of it, with Instagram models skyrocketing and fashion YouTubers teaching teens about trends and how to wear clothing. Social media plays a huge role on designers, especially young ones. Because they know more about events and trends, it’s easier to design to a broader audience.
For now, we don’t know what fashion may be like in the future - hopefully, it’ll be wilder. Maybe it’ll look more futuristic, playing a lot with materials not normally used for clothes. Maybe we’ll jump back generations, exploring how past decades dressed. I asked Max for thoughts on the future of fashion. “I feel like fashion in the future will be more unique and more strange,” Max said, and honestly, I gotta give this one to you because I think you’re absolutely right.
TORI
The world of fashion is always revolving. With new trends, patterns, textures and silhouettes being introduced everyday, fashion is sometimes overwhelming. With teens and young adults in 2019 dominating the fashion community, I explored fashion through an 18 year old’s born in ATL eyes’ next.
Something astonishing about fashion is how we’re slowly learning that clothes really don’t have a gender. People will wear whatever patterns and textures they desire, and they’ll wear more pieces out of their comfort zones, often exantuating a more feminine or masculine side to them.
“There’s big things in fashion that are happening right now that are very gender bending. It’s not so much genderless, but men wearing skirts, like Matty Healy from the band The 1975 wore skirts the entire time he was performing on tour, and now it’s a trend. You see different artists, different singers and women wearing pantsuits and stuff like that,” Tori said when asked about fashion and how it’s evolving through genders. “It’s more free, it’s more gender accepting.”
A rise in runway fashion has also sparked headlines, with Instagram models and YouTubers wearing fancier, bolder, louder clothing to red carpet events and the rise of making trends of runway articles. One example of this is Jaquemu’s tiny purses, which have been trending on Instagram ever since they came out. We see a change in what people wear, not being afraid to turn heads when they walk into a room, or get a couple side eyes when they walk down the street. This often leads to people almost mistreating younger generations on what they wear, most of the time mocking them and treating them without respect based solely on what they wear.
So I asked Tori if people treat her differently based on the way she is dressed. “Yes, all the time. People love to outcast others just because of their outfits. People are really quick to judge, often thinking ‘Wow. That person is really out there.’ It gives people like a preconceived message of me.” stated Tori.
Fashion is meant to be fun and daring, and a lot of designers often like to make messages with their clothing and runways. One designer that sets this standard is Alexander Mcqueen, whose runways often turned heads and received negative connotations because of how controversial they were. People now live for that, often wanting to be asked about their clothing and if it sparked any symbolic meaning. Fashion as we know it is getting wilder - something that I don’t mind one bit.
“There’s big things in fashion that are happening right now that are very gender bending. It’s not so much genderless, but men wearing skirts, like Matty Healy from the band The 1975 wore skirts the entire time he was performing on tour, and now it’s a trend. You see different artists, different singers and women wearing pantsuits and stuff like that,” Tori said when asked about fashion and how it’s evolving through genders. “It’s more free, it’s more gender accepting.”
A rise in runway fashion has also sparked headlines, with Instagram models and YouTubers wearing fancier, bolder, louder clothing to red carpet events and the rise of making trends of runway articles. One example of this is Jaquemu’s tiny purses, which have been trending on Instagram ever since they came out. We see a change in what people wear, not being afraid to turn heads when they walk into a room, or get a couple side eyes when they walk down the street. This often leads to people almost mistreating younger generations on what they wear, most of the time mocking them and treating them without respect based solely on what they wear.
So I asked Tori if people treat her differently based on the way she is dressed. “Yes, all the time. People love to outcast others just because of their outfits. People are really quick to judge, often thinking ‘Wow. That person is really out there.’ It gives people like a preconceived message of me.” stated Tori.
Fashion is meant to be fun and daring, and a lot of designers often like to make messages with their clothing and runways. One designer that sets this standard is Alexander Mcqueen, whose runways often turned heads and received negative connotations because of how controversial they were. People now live for that, often wanting to be asked about their clothing and if it sparked any symbolic meaning. Fashion as we know it is getting wilder - something that I don’t mind one bit.