Response to Sage Midnight’s Fashion and Nepotism

Hello, it’s Sarah, back at it again with another blog response! Been coming home super late for my restaurant job, and I’ve had to help my son with math homework he’s been struggling on. Life’s rough. Anyway, glad that I could squeeze in some time to upload my weekly blog response. This week, I will be responding to Sage Midnight’s Fashion and Nepotism. This post brought me back down memory lane, and led me to a time in high school where I used to care so much about fashion, and the clothes I wore. Being wasian (half Japanese half Italian) and rejected by both halves of my ethnicity, I’ve always had a desperation to fit in. My high-school hormones just made things worse. Although Sage’s post doesn’t cover petty high-school clotheswear tips and tricks, reading about the professional world of fashion definitely piqued my interest. It makes me feel silly thinking I could have been a model after having pictures taken for my school newspaper in a section called: Outfit of the week! Although I feel like if instagram was a thing back then, I could pass off as an instagram model. Speaking of instagram models, I saw a video on YouTube where these instagram influencers and runway models discussed about their similarities and differences. What annoyed me a bunch was the seemingly fake personalities that the instagram influencers had. They would preach one thing, but their actions did not follow. In other words, they talked the talk, but could not walk the walk (haha runway joke get it?? Ok. Guess moms can make dad jokes too). It annoyed me how they could create such huge fan bases through lies and deception (claiming they don’t use photoshop when they clearly do), just so they can gain followers and popularity. For example, one of the girls in the video said she supported natural body image, while also saying that she photoshops her posts to make herself look better.  Anyways, the important part of Sage’s post is to comment on the superb performance of model Gigi Hadid in the Paris Fashion Week that occurred this past week. Before reading this, I had no idea who Gigi Hadid is, so I live under a rock according to Sage, but I digress. Paris Fashion Week is one of the largest runway shows, and is where designers are able to display their collections for the season. The significance of Gigi Hadid in Paris Fashion Week was her walk, and acknowledgement of her nepotism. I think that this is something we can all learn from. If a well renowned celebrity can step off her high horse, humble herself and admit to her privilege, then we as “normal people” can definitely do the same. As for me, I come from a middle-class family who made enough where we didn’t have to worry about where our next meal came from, and now currently work a restaurant job and partially depend on money from the government to support myself and my son, so I’d hope to be in a position to practice that sort of humbleness some day.