What Are The Next Trends In Pop Star Apparel Going To Be?
It’s so much easier to predict the past than the future! In the fickle world of entertainment, that’s even more true than it is in the serious world of politics and economics.
Wallstreet gurus would like us to believe that they have all the answers to our economic future. They’ve said it before and look what happened! It would be wonderful to have the power to accurately predict the future, but it’s just impossible.
If something as critical to our future as our economy cannot be predicted with any degree of accuracy, what chance have we to predict the upcoming trends in something as frivolous as pop star fashion? Just because leather brown boots were a popular accessory with some old rockers and are now long out of fashion doesn’t mean they won’t suddenly become cool again.
Fashion trends depend on the power of the artist and that’s unpredictable. The Beatles are the perfect example of that. Before they came on the scene, no man in his right mind would have worn his hair long. It only took as long as it takes hair to grow before long hair was being worn by men everywhere after their first album reached America.
Let’s say a new pop superstar named Jean Skinny arrives on the scene. Jean has an androgynous style of clothing. She wears men’s clothing and combs her hair like a man. It’s all subtly and carefully done, though, so she doesn’t look masculine.
There’s one more accessory that Jean is known for – it’s her black sport watch. She always takes off her jacket and rolls up her sleeves before she performs, so that big man’s watch stands out clearly on her wrist. It looks so good on her that wearing men’s watches becomes a worldwide fad. Girls everywhere throw away their feminine time pieces and go out and find the biggest men’s watches they possibly can.
While everything else about her costume has been carefully designed and chosen by top costume designers, her watch was not. It belonged to her Dad, who died suddenly just before he was able to see her reach stardom. She only wears it in homage to him.
She wasn’t trying to start a fashion trend. In fact, it was years before she revealed to anyone the reason why she wore it. Her manager, on the other hand, had deliberately been trying to start a trend when he got designers to give her that look she was so famous for. Nobody could have predicted the outcome. It just happened. You just can’t predict the fashion future!