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The video is the Spring/Summer 2018 runway from Paolo Sebastian, Australian Fashion designer. The collection is called "Once upon a Dream" and it really is a dream. Paolo Sebastian is my main Fashion designer inspiration so I wanted to show you.

This "chapter" is a special edit. Indeed, it's an essay I had to do in English, about fashion since I'm a fashion student. I know this has Nothing to do with poetry but to me a poem is a mere reflexion put into a more beautiful form. So I thought, why not? This is also a reflexion and it's as important as any peom's containt to me.  

The question is the following : 

"What feed you fashion-wise?"

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                        At first, I thought about answering this question as I would with any essay, which means with an organised and well-structured argumentation to go with an accurate opening and ending. Yet, the more thinking I had, the more I wanted to reject this idea. Needless to say what the outcome of this inner debate has been. Indeed, what I've realised wishing to do instead was to intertwine many passions of mine : writing, languages, fashion and psychology. So here I am although absolutely not sorry for doing it in a inconvenient and untraditional way.

                      First and foremost, when I think about what feeds me fashion-wise, I reckon everything I've ever experienced in any sensory term, and nothing simultaneously. In the first place, I didn't know how I could write about it if everything inspires me but I don't feel inspired by anything. « How contradictory and ridiculous » I've told myself. However, I figured it out now. I thought I had to feel inspired thanks to how other people dress or what the new trends are.

Before going any further, we have to differenciate the meanings of the term « inspiration » and agree on what definition to use. Inspiration could be the hurricane of hope coming from an external environment that incite people to move on with their life, and that we mostly express through art, letting it become an external power for others as well. Yet, for this question and to me, it will mean the soft wind that doesn't just lead me to daydream about what I like, but that actually gives me enough strength and willpower to make my dreams come true. Here it could be for creating clothes for instance.

                      Therefore, I figured that I wasn't getting inspired by new trends because I sometimes enjoy the latest but the knowledge that it's very temporary fashion doesn't make me like it enough to want to create in that style. Then, I thought I could get inspired by people because of what I see online or the people I meet that I think are very stylish. But then again, I thought that I just admire their clothes because they are wearing it, because I enjoy watching people who look confident in their style, and that I feel this way even if I dislike the clothes in themselves. So I thought : « What in this world is an undeniable source of inspiration to me ? Not a vague liked aesthetic of the moment, but something that never fails to make me want to create. »

Suddenly, I thought about the social documentary we saw in class about Iris Apfel and I knew only two things had this power.

                      The first one is the etheral sun. In this last statement I mean people who smile like they've never suffered, which between you and I can be a bit true because the brain always supress the feelings of hurt or anything that we understand as negative and it is why when you think about pain you can't complety remember what it feels like (but the pain never fades away in the heart, as cheesy as it is). I also mean all the positive and self-confidence booster ads, even though they do it only in the interest of us liking their brand or name. Or even the physical love I receive from friends and family and give back. The fact that all those things inspire me are because I always feel too tired, both in the body and the mind, to do anything even though I have millions of dreams to keep me awake. Yet, the moment I feel all that, it's like the door of my heart is opened and I can let myself create again in all its form, be it music, writing, learning everything I can, drawing, painting and much more. Then, adrenaline is gone and I am tired again. As a result, I guess you could say I have to let myself be inspired first which sounds very logical and not an answer to the question at all. To me, however this is the beginning of it because I feel often to closed up to feeds on something. Then, when I am, comes the second and most important thing of my life.

                     Nature. It may sound very exaggerated to say nature runs my life but I know I would literally kill myself if it didn't existed, now I probably wouldn't have been able to be born at all. I don't remember a time where I didn't care about nature. I've always felt so tied to it. I can hear the birds singing everywhere in the world every morning, I can feel the roots of the trees everytime I walk down the street, I always imagine what the world would look like if all those grey buildings weren't there. Once, I even cried when lying on the grass because I felt every insect move around me, the sun above, the warmth of the earth beneath and forgot about my body. I was just another insect on earth. Now please don't be afraid, I know it may sound very high for an answer but I really want you to understand how nature's power is. The truth is that people are too busy thinking about problems or too busy acting on it to actually stop and take time to Feel. Have you ?

Therefore, I know that my fashion style is nature inspired. I want to create clothes that tie us even more with it. It's why I like Paolo Sebastian, sometimes Valentino or sometimes Alexander McQueen, Dior so much. Moreover, Nature is the only source of inspiration that is immortal.

What is yours ?

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I hope you enjoyed it even though it's no poem. Don't hesitate to give your answer as well !