FASHION NIGHT OUT
What was said a hundred years ago about fashion being operated by the two opposing desires, to be different from everyone else and to be the same as everyone else, was really illustrated during fashion night out. The variety of different interpretations of fashion made me feel safe from being over-run by uniformity. And yet, within every little group, the fashion was cloned, the patterns repeated, the hairstyles prescribed, and even the faces and their expressions looked the same. A night of unions and segregations by style. And yet, the little groups rubbed against each other in Broadway traffic and shared glitter. It reminded me of my friend’s comparison of this phenomenon to an interplanetary cafe on scifi TV series. The little groups of aliens look dramatically different, but within each group everyone is the same.
