Nowadays, fashion is everything, especially in the United States. Fashion (like clothes, and trends) has the ability to be the same, yet diverse. Fashion is the same for everyone; different types of people can have the same trend. Blue hair is the same on a caucasian person’s head, or a different race’s head. Fashion, as a whole, changes rapidly. Blue hair is in today, but then brown hair is going to be in style tomorrow. Most people have a desire to look fashionable or trendy; but where do some these fashion trends come from?
As a teenager, I’ve seen trends come and go. One of the constant factors behind fashion trends are celebrities, like Kylie Jenner. Some of the biggest fashion magazines and blogs see the correlation between Kylie and fashion, that’s why they incorporate and emphasize her style. Some of these magazines are Glamourmagazine, People, Seventeen, Teenvogue, Whowhatwear, Style, Popsugar and more.
Big lips, henna chokers, ripped jeans, colored hair, plaid shirts and crop tops. Those were some recent trends, not started by one person in particular. The fact that celebrities, like Kylie Jenner, incorporated these trends in their lives, gave the trends exposure. Most tweens, teens, young adults and adults are inspired by these trends, which are worn by some of the biggest icons of the United States.
I tried to contact Kylie Jenner through email and got no response, so the next best thing was to look at what she has said in previous articles and interviews regarding fashion. Brittany Talarico from People magazine had the privilege of talking to both the Jenner sisters about fashion. “I’m like punk one month, ghetto fab the next, classy the next. I’m just young and finding out who I am. I get bored, I like to change my hair and style,” Kylie told People magazine. She also mentioned how she changes her style almost every month.
Even for celebrities like Kylie, fashion is changing. Fashion, styles, and trends are changing for everyone, regardless of who you are and how much you may or may not have. These trends happen to be started by someone, somewhere, in the world, but they expand into ‘must haves’ and ‘needs’ once someone iconic starts to follow the trend.
References
Talarico, Brittany. “Kylie Jenner Says Her Style ‘Changes Every Month,’ Plus, See Kendall’s New Haircut!” People 10 Nov. 2014: 1-4. Time Inc. Web. 9 Feb. 2015.
So I love the details of different fashion looks. I have two concerns though. My biggest one is that it’s hard to know exactly what your specific topic is. Is it Kylie? Is it celebrities in fashion? Is it teens? Is it fashion changing? Kylie would be the most specific topic, but you don’t really seem to be focus on anything about her in fashion in particular. She is more just the best example of something or the biggest authority (from whom you want a quote).
Secondly some of your rhetorical moves aren’t helping you. Phrases like “nowadays” actually make you seem really general and as if you’re not as on point about your points of reference. And the moment when you say you emailed Kylie, but didn’t get a response actually weakens your article because you break the frame of the discussion and start to talk about process. Unless your article is about process and some are, this technique is distracting. It also opens you up for criticism since sending a celebrity a random email doesn’t really constitute serious reporting or research. It’s fine that you didn’t do rigorous research because this assignment is an exercise, but you don’t need to write about how you didn’t do rigorous research.