There will always be celebrity fashion icons that we look up to and whether we admit it or not, dress in the style that they set for us. Celebrity fashion culture has taken over, and it has truly become a culture that we cannot ignore.
Surprisingly, what celebrities wear impacts on our fashion style, whether we consciously choose to recognize it or not. We see them in magazines, papers and on TV wearing the clothing they are given or told to wear by their stylist or designer brand they are endorsing.
How they dress in public reflects not only their (or their publicists) fashion style, but their ‘image’ and ‘look’ trickles down through the media and eventually it is reflected in the wardrobes of the onlookers.
There will always be the essential, classic celebrity fashion icons, like Audrey Hepburn that we will always replicate for her sheik and sassy style, but today’s celebrity fashion is far from the unique styles set by the celebrities before.
Yes, the fashion set by celebrities is still highly looked upon, and we still mimic their image, but the styles are by no means original, and what used to be viewed as bad taste is suddenly being called fashion.
Kate Moss has been labeled a celebrity fashion icon of the 20th century, but this British super model seems to be the exception to the rule. Of course, supermodel Moss is going to sport the most elegant and newest designs, she is aware of the image that will be followed.
But it is celebrities like Mariah Carey and the like that think it is okay to leave their million dollar mansion in miss-matched, barely there clothing that create bad fashion trends to follow.
Somehow even ‘rehab’ singer Amy Winehouse has managed to score a fashion contract as the face of a label for Robert Cavalli. Seriously, un-brushed hair, tattoos showing and your mid rift bare, is this what we want replicated throughout the world?
What happened to the original, classy good quality clothing and styles from the celebrities’ only a decade before?
I think its time celebrities, Australian or otherwise should take a look at their historical alias and take some tips from them. Get back to sleek, stylish looks so that the one can comment on the fashion sense of thy celebrity fashion follower.