Fashion is Spinach?

After reading parts of “Fashion is Spinach” is was thinking back to a conversation in class about planned obsolescence and how “An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth” by Bruce Mau is something that relates to them all. “An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth” is something that I think I could live by with the ideas of leaving room for experimentation and always keep going, it felt like something my mom would have read to me as a kid and it made me think of how it applies to all aspects of life we do not need to follow a straight path in anything and that made me think about how reading “Fashion is Spinach” I realized clothes apply to all of these ideas as well we need to experiment with what we like and what people think is good and once we have it we don’t have to stick with it we can always continue to grow, however this is how planned obsolescence  comes in. Our experimentation with dress is something that is often forced on to us should we know it is being forced or not is one thing but with a new trend every year we are left constantly trying to keep up with the vouge or chose to go against what is “good” which is something that feels dictated by a new line from every big fashion house every season. We are trapped by planned obsolescence by the way that the world is constantly experimenting with things. “Fashion is Spinach” touched on the idea of this when it was talking abou t how designers make new clothes with very specific events completely from scratch every year and possibly season. Fashion is in a wave right now where everything is being recycled from the past but in such stretched out times that we often get rid of things that may come back into “vogue” in a few years. This is why “forget good” in Bruce Mau’s growth manifesto stuck with me we can choose what we want as “good” and excitement when we feel like it to either challenge fashions regular planned obsolescence or fall for it.