Despite its current beauty/fashion-heavy content, LWIS is not essentially a blog about clothes and make-up. Style, to us, is more about self-expression. Yes, what you wear is a big part of it, but so is how you carry it off, and basically the face you portray to the world through your words, your actions, your taste, and your work. It's in how you choose to make your mark on the world and make them sit up and take notice.
One question that has come up a number of times is 'why does any of this matter?" Sadly enough, fashion and style are often seen as superficial, and even supercilious, but we at LWIS beg to differ. Every now and then, we will be posting essays on style and self-image, and self-expression, but we thought we'd kick off this section by borrowing something from Hearty, the online magazine: Julia Wertz's views on fashion. For those who haven't read her stuff, Julia Wertz is an American graphic novelist, most famous for her transgressive Fart Party comic series. An artist and Lupus survivor, she cuts an interesting figure, and for those most interested in the full interview, you can check it out here.
For everyone else, we're reposting her cartoon essay on her views on fashion.
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| Source: heartymagazine.com |
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