Can You Keep Up with Fashion?

So, I go to fashion school and I like to write about fashion... But there is NEVER enough time to keep up with it. Yes, I'll even admit it. I have just barely finished perusing the last bit of collections from FW Spring 2010, and Pre-Fall has been up on STYLE.COM for weeks now. I'm uber-disappointed that I'm so far behind... but it really makes me think, too.

All quarter long, my boss at the Drexel Historic Costume Collection (Clare) and I have been discussing Fashion with a big "F" vs. fashion with a small "f", and which is more important, and why. (More to come on this in the future.) When coupling the innumerable things I have learned from Clare with the fast-paced nature of the fashion industry, I have come to believe that the trick is not "keeping up" with fashion as much as it is understanding it's completely transient nature.

I say: Allow it to roll by you, and somewhere in it's tumbles add something of yourself into it.

This statement helps me justify my inability to frequently blog.

And then there's the fact that all quarter long in school I'm in the process of thinking and researching and creating and then the quarter is over and I can barely comprehend all the work I've done. Then you sit down and look at it all and feel... accomplished.

So this is some of what I have done this quarter while not blogging. And I completely could not keep up! Oh the joys of what the future holds and how much harder school will be. (Now, as always, click on any slide to enlarge.)