Avery Truffleman
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Appearances Over Time
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And it navigates that boundary.
Yeah, it's how you're choosing to stand out and fit in at the same time.
I've heard it once said, this is, I'm totally paraphrasing some very famous, it was like George Simmel or someone, so this isn't me, but this idea that fashion results from our need to stand in, to stand out and fit in.
Like if we all wanted to stand out, we would all just sort of wear the craziest thing we could possibly think of and we'd all look really, really different.
And if we all wanted to look exactly the same, we'd all just be in uniform.
But fashion is this very delicate dance of wanting to look individual, yet wanting to look like everybody else.
And looking like everybody else carries a bit of a, like, come on, sheeple.
It has a bit of a derogatory tone to it, but I think it's actually really beautiful.
It's the way we read each other.
It's the way that we...
know maybe who will have something in common with us.
It's how we follow each other.
I think there's something very, very sweet and very lovely that the more time you start to spend with someone, you kind of start dressing like them.
You kind of start dressing like your group of friends.
It's this way that we, like this even happens in the animal kingdom.
Do you remember there was this phenomenon of orcas wearing salmon as hats?
This is a real thing.
Like one orca started wearing a salmon as a hat and then others started following.
It's like a thing.