Sunday, September 27, 2009




I just came back from watching "The September Issue" a documentary about Anna Wintour, the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine. There was a part in the film where Anna's daughter Bee spoke about how she felt about the whole fashion industry and if she would one day follow in her mother's footstep in being a fashion editor. Bee aspires to be a lawyer and she thinks the fashion industry is weird or the people in it is weird. She mentioned how there's more to life than just fashion and the people that's in the fashion industry get so obsessed that their life and world revolves around fashion. So it made me wonder... if I'm a little too obsessed with fashion? I know this is my passion. I eat, sleep, and breath this. Sometimes I don't even eat or sleep because I'm so caught up in my own fashion bubble that I neglect certain things around me. Besides fashion, I do appreciate art, traveling, seeing and trying new things, good food, reading, pop culture, philosophy, understanding life, the simple things in life, good humor, fascinating people, I like to observe, people watch, and listen. I tend to wonder sometimes if I should broaden my interests. Though I love fashion but I wonder if it's necessary for me watch more CNN or read more on politics to be more open-minded to people that may not be in the arts and fashion and be able to relate to them as well outside of fashion? Also, I wonder if it could be true when people say artists are crazy people. Yes, I think I can be crazy at times. As an artists, we are very temperamental. Sometimes I say things and do things in the heat of the moment and would wake up the next morning and not remember why I was mad or angry the day before. One thing I do know... we are true to who we are. I've read somewhere that it's statistically true that there is a higher rate of mental illnesses in people with an artistic lifestyle. I know I want to be able to express myself creatively in my career but I want to find the right balance. Someone told me that they see me being with another artist because I'm such a free-spirit. I strongly disagree. I want a man to balance me and help me tone down my craziness and add a bit of stability in my life but appreciates what I do for a living and art as much as I do.

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