Look at me, look at me!

Ugh... the part of the fashion world that I hate is that there are all these pretentious people that circle around designers and artist like a pack of hyenas, very often they sound and on certain frightening occasions dress like them as well. I went to two parties last night and although the venues were full of bodies there were very few actual people there, mostly there were created personas. Now as way of warning here is how you can tell you are a pretentious person:

You speak with a voice other than the one God gave you.

You go to parties to get your photo taken and don't actually ever form a single meaningful personal or professional relationship out of going to them.

When someone asks how was your night, your definition of success involves how many parties you went to and who was there.

You attend works to promote or celebrate artists but can't remember a single intelectual or emotional response you had to their work.

You spend 2 hours getting your appearance "just so" for a party and then stay for 20 minutes.

You actually get excited when one of the "party photographers" comes closer.

You spend a great deal of your time at the party explaining why everybody else at the party is so unstylish.

You are introduced to others and you talk more than you listen.

Please don't be the above person. Be yourself, and make real connections with other real people. And most importantly when you are around art, be vulnerable to it, let it work its way on you and see what you feel and think.
Seth F.