Is personal style dead? | Vogue India
Allow this chronically online zillennial to paint a picture for you: Sex and the city c. 2008 — Samantha Jones, Kim Cattrall’s character, and Miley Cyrus (as herself) pass each other on a red carpet, wearing the same bejeweled bodycon dress. In the beginning (somewhat), a situation like this was much closer to a rare event than it is today. Today, unfortunately, it is as ubiquitous as spring flowers.
For my part, I encountered this “coincidence” once at an after-party and another time at the airport. So I bit my tongue, that’s life. And while it serves as a delightfully awkward icebreaker, is it time to fully accept being caught in the same clothes as an inevitable faux pas?
There aren’t many people who stand out anymore. Even if they do, it’s more often to make a statement than for their inherent style. This recalls a choose me a cult – a cult where we all strive to be different and fail miserably. Faced with the almost threatening expansion of everyone’s favorite pastime of scrolling, I wonder how subjective style is today.
We are overexposed, overinspired and overwhelmed. We don’t even have the space to think about what we really want and how we can make something our own. We’re already at the buffet, so we might as well dig in, and that’s how the cookie crumbles.
