Increasingly, in recent years and worldwide, fashion has been given a platform to showcase the upcoming fashion trends. Fashion runway shows display fashion with such artistic collaboration with designers. The models grace the stage with amazing styles and beauty.
The hugely successful Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, set to show at every major city around the world twice a year highlighting the Spring/Summer collections followed by the Autumn/Winter collections.
As with art, the cultural relevance of fashion as a mirror of the habits and tastes of past trends making their way back into the scene. Fashion as an artifact of culture teaches us about our and other societies’ histories. However, the line between fashion and art becomes more blurred when we look to more current instances of how fashion is presented.
Fashion has never been more accessible to the masses than it is today. Just take a look at global media outlets like Fashion Television to see all the runway shows streaming to your television in full 4K and Fashionweek.com to keep you up to date with all the latest trends coming to you from the red carpet as well as off the runway.
What shocks the audience most in these artistic fashion designs is that the medium of clothing is used to express a concept that is not necessarily fashion-related. The elevated emotion it gives rise to is also unexpected in the context of a fashion show. In the sense that art can bring about a feeling of awe because of its beauty, a fashion show can bring tears to the eyes of editors because of its powerful aesthetic impact. It is precisely the tension between functionality and aesthetics that lies at the heart of fashion’s artistic potential. This potential is unleashed first by the designer’s intention and ultimately fulfilled by the audience’s interpretation. In this sense, modern fashion, like modern art is a catalyst for dialogue and an exchange of ideas.
Basically, if the art of fashion is executed well, it has the power to renew our view of the word and lets us experience it through visionary eyes.