Fashion Perspectives

In my journey to discover how various young women feel about the negative images of women that are put out by the Media, and how if in any way they are effected, I was sent in a new direction. After I finished my interviews and sat down to edit them, my original ideas and intent were out the window. I stumbled across another very interesting topic of which we can all relate to in one way or the other, Fashion.

I created a short video documentary in which I interviewed two young women about Fashion and the Media's effect on it. My first interview was of a Fashionista and the second was an aspiring Designer. I asked them various questions to get a glance of how they thought the Media effects fashion in either a negative or positive way. I made a connection between these two young women as I interviewed them, which was their blind passion for fashion.


As I started the interviews I began to ask questions that sparked a light bulb in my mind. How accountable are we for the negative images out in the Media? Are we victims or participators? Many young women are well aware of the standards set by society for us, but don't realize how they help these images to continue to exist. My short video documentary isn't meant to point fingers or to shed a negative light on young women, but to help them to realize how innocent hobbies or interests may help negative images to stay alive.