for the way they handle fabrics ( i am also essentially a textile person, so i end up paying attention to the fabric, from where it all starts..) and above all, the "style" and elan. it follows a certain non-conventional route, nothing over the top sexy, but fashion in a mature kind of way.
people from a non-fashion background often wonder what is it that is so "great" about the fashion industry...isnt it just a huge mass of non-wearable clothes,the fame and the glitz and the blitz and the bling and the zing...the list is endless. to top it all, the clothes are "oh-so-expensive", "who-buys-them?" etc etc.these people are right in their view point to a certain extent...and i am also sometimes confused as to what is the aim of this industry...which is actually earning millions and billions of bucks.
it is perhaps the only field which offers an immense creative freedom, in terms of the options available for wear (and tear!) as well as for the design part of it....after all, had it not been for the choice in clothes, we would have been quite bored! on a serious note, as far as the designers are concerned, the creative freedom it offers in terms of the things that could be made with a simple piece of fabric, is immense; construction, de-construction, re-construction , do what you may. though i must say, all of this boils down to the fact that we are all trying to get dressed (dressed-up or down, take your pick).
