Fashion world is dominated by some very jaded but edgy bunch of people. They have pretty much done and seen it all, which clearly explained the reason why fashion keeps on changing and shifting from one direction to another. New trends are being created while the old ones are coming back on revivals.

Think of the ‘fro on Louis Vuitton runway last season, Karl Lagerfeld country/farm theme catwalk show, Ricardo Tisci men-legging for Givenchy , swollen/bloody faces at Jean-Paul Gaultier and to top it all off Dsquared who sent their models down the runway with Starbucks in one hand; Mary-Kate Olsen style.

Fashion is ever changing, over the top and there’s just too much going on at one time. That’s why some people just don’t get it and they don’t really give a damn. But for us who claim to ‘breathe fashion’, I guess we’re stuck in it.

Upon closer look, there are a lot of principles and moral issues that people can blame on the fashion industry. Think about fur, animal testing, financial breakdown and the pressure it puts on the society.

I am no Pamela Anderson or Khloe Kardashian, but I am against the idea of killing animals over some fur winter coats and lizard skin boots. People won’t die from the winter cold just because they don’t have their fur coats on! According to America’s IDA (In Defense of Animals), to make one fur coat, at least fifty-five wild mink, eighteen red foxes, one hundred chinchillas, thirty rex rabbits, fifteen bobcats, twenty-five skunks, thirty possums, one hundred squirrels, or twenty-seven raccoons must be killed. That’s why I’m so glad that designers and brands like Stella McCartney, Ann Taylor, Ashley Page, Betsey Johnson, Herve Leger, Karen Walker, Topshop , Zara and huge numbers of other designer decided to go anti-fur. Let’s just hope that someone will talk and show some PETA videos to the Olsen Twins, Madonna and Sharon Stone. The same goes to users of brands like Chanel that still do animal testing on their products.

Although a lot of economist predicted that 2010 will be a better year that hopefully will take us further out from the global economic crisis, it doesn’t mean that we can all max out our credit cards and go crazy at Jimmy Choo and Miu Miu. Sometimes it feels like we pay some very ridiculously high prices for designer’s item. Chloe’s Marcie small leather hobo bag for instance, will cost you around $1465 and be prepared to pay not less than $400 for a pair of Miu Miu shoes. Throughout the year of 2009, a lot of fashion editors have tried to inject a little bit of sensitivity towards the issue on pages of their magazines. Joanna Coles, the US Marie Claire editor for instance, specifically asked for mixture of high street and designer pieces to be featured on the fashion spreads of Marie Claire. It’s good that Coles gives her readers alternative for the staggering prices of straight-off-the-runway pieces. The teaming up of brands like H&M and Target with designers like Alexander McQueen and Anna Sui to create affordable line is another step taken to help people, so that they could still be able to buy clothing at affordable prices.

Other than the aforementioned, fashion has also been noted as the roots of several other issues like eating disorder, substance abuse and mental disorientation. Fashion images plastered on the bedroom wall of high-school girls around the world has been accused of being the cause of aneroxia, heroin addiction, alcoholism and esteem issues. Is there any truth to these random accusations? Yes, Kate Moss was busted doing a line of coke and yes, models like Iekeliene Stange and Sasha Pivovarova sometimes make people think that being super-thin is cool and fashionable, but for most of us they don’t necessarily make us all want to try drugs or stick fingers down our throats because we make our own choices.

So the world of fashion is definitely a strange one. It’s either you’re in or you’re out. With some logical thinking, we might be stuck in it but we definitely won’t get lost in it.

Photos from: TeenVogue.com Style.com gq.com

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