First Post: What is Zero-Era Fashion?

Zero-Era Fashion is clothing and accessories that fit a number of criteria:

• They are timeless (in the literal sense, without time)
• Without ostentation
  
• Fit well within any fashion trend
• Look good
• Blend in, disappear with the crowd
• Ephemeral and Unspecifiable

"Well, well," you might be saying to yourself, "is such a style of clothing even possible?"

To answer you, yes, it is. It is, of course, very difficult to pin down - much like a starched oxford collar.

I know what you might be thinking at the moment. You might think I'm talking about "classic fashions, vintage wears that never go out of style, never seem dated."

You're wrong.

• The suit: Dated.
• The blazer: Dated.
• The backless-strapless: Dated.
• Blue Jeans: Very dated.
• T-Shirts: Hopelessly dated.
• Polo's: Are you kidding me?

Zero-Era fashion declares: The Suit is Dead! The fashion of the 19th and 20th century is an abberation on the fashion-trend time-line. In the mid-19th century the state of Men's fashion ground to a standstill. No new ideas have come since then and all "high" fashion for men is just retreading. Women's fashion hit a point in the early 20th-century, where all future "high" fashions were again, retreads.

So now we find ourselves at the present state: where a bizzare amalgamation of various stagnate fashions what is considered to be "runway material," when, infact, it is a tasteless and crass simulacra of clothing that is about 100 years old and wasn't even a good idea at the time.

It is the business world, the rise of the consumerist middle class, and lazy designers that are to blame for this de-evolution of fashion. A revolution is coming, and it has nothing to do with more liberating or freer clothes --- it will be an entirely new concept of what fashion is.

In actuality, there will be more than one "revolution," just as there was many sects in the major shift of artwork in the 20th century; surrealists, dadaists, futurists, cubists, mid-century modernists and the like all came up with new solutions to the stagnation of art, and so shall it be for fashion.

One I would like to introduce to you, and at the same time lay some claim to its foundation and tenants, is Zero-Era fashion. In this blog I will show examples of what I believe to befit the title, and I will also discuss failures of modern fashion to be, well, fashionable.

I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you embrace the bold new directions fashion will take in the 21st century, because they are coming whether you like it or not.