The Past, Present, and Future

“The Etymology of Design: Pre-Socratic Perspective” an article written by Kostas Terzidis, explains how design is a paradox. This article gave me a more precise explanation than what I had in mind. Back in high school a friend and I were discussing where the trend and fashion today came from. We realized that if we look back at the fashion history we see many of the fashions today resembling the fashion in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. We came up with a theory that fashions today were design based on the fashions from the past. This article has proved our theory, by talking about etymology, innovation, origin, and novelty.

These fashion trends vary from hairstyles to clothing. If you go out somewhere, you will see a few teenagers with the puff up 60s hairstyle. Not only do the teenagers have that hair style but celebrities as well. It is the most popular hairstyle at this age which came from the idea of the 60s hairstyle. It may not be popular among adults but is a highly popular hairstyle for teens. What this hairstyle does is it gives the hair more volume. Now the idea of design as a paradox comes to play. Designer brought back the idea of the 60s hairstyle and innovated it to something that is new because it seem to be forgotten already and needed to be discover again. Same thing applies to the skinny jeans that are highly popular among every one of all ages. 

  ’60s sex symbol, Brigitte Bardot, and the goddess of French film.

 Angelina Jolie, actress

Go to any search website and look for images of skinny jeans. The search results will show trendy colorful skinny jeans of today. If you look up how skinny jeans look like back in the 60s to 80s they look different. That is how innovation works. The idea of skinny jean was brought back and changed into something that fits the liking of the people of today. It shapes the body revealing the curves that skinny jeans back in the 60s couldn’t do. The big hit after skinny jeans in the 60s are bell bottoms, refer back to my first blog “The First Encounter”, then the popularity of it died out and skinny jeans came back in a more fashionable way. Now my question is, will bell bottom come back as a big hit like skinny jean?

 

Skinny jeans in the 60s

 Singer Rihanna wearing today's skinny jean.