"High" Fashion
October 22nd 2006 06:47
Women's magazines celebrate celebrities when they do it, cover stories showing them "doing it", so I ask, are drugs the new denim? I went to the races for the first time the other day. I got all dolled up in sky-high heels and a spray-on dress…I felt like a celebrity going to a red-carpet event, until I was forced to take off my heels in order to walk, and seriously considered taking my dress off for the same reason. Like a celebrity, I walked, I talked, I drank…whilst my friend took a pill. My friend was really well dressed, and I couldn't help wonder whether she was just following a fashion, like me in my Angelina Jolie inspired dress. She was as fashionable as Kate Moss, Lindsay Lohan or Fergie, and was at the closest celebrity-like event accessible to us commoners…was this to be expected? I stood there as sane and as stale as possible, with only having one drink in me at the time…and refused to join the shrill of unwarranted hysterical laughter and unfocused bouncy-ball eyes. It wasn't only her, every-one in our little cluster was "pilling"…I had only just met these people…they were all in their late twenties to early thirties and still using. This surprised me, being a young-un who thought that people only used illegal substances, other than addiction, to make a social situation easier for themselves. You know, that slightly socially awkward person who always seems to be at events you go to…not that you'd notice if they weren't, perhaps confused and most prominently, not comfortable enough with themselves, even with a few drinks in them…they need more. I had just hoped that by the time I hit the big 3-0-…perhaps even if I were socially awkward and confused I would be comfortable enough with myself to present myself, warts and all, to a group of friends. Though, Kate Moss is in her thirties and she still feels the "need for speed"…or cocaine…or whatever. Surely Kate Moss, who bares all for and international advertisement would be comfortable enough with her sober self, or would she? Is Ms Moss simply so wrapped up in "high" fashion that she naturally follows the next new craze? Women's magazines celebrate these women through their work, through their dress and make-up…through their drug abuse. Is this why, or at least a contributing factor to why young women, who wear what the celeb's wear, do their make-up like the celeb's…take drugs like the celeb's? Has this celebration of "high" fashion gone too far…or am I just missing out on all the fun?
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