It’s A Circus

Text: Billy Bride


After falling in love with the mystical miasma of carnival garb in last weeks post, I haven’t been able to move on. I feel my style-spire has been sent off kilter, whirling topsy-turvy through space and time. Round and round and round it goes, and where it stops, nobody knows…

Where to go from here? Once one has tasted the heady nepenthe ambrosia of the carnivale, how can one possibly return to the 2D world of the sapient and mundane? Why must we be forced to live our lives within the confines of the “sane” and the “possible”? Why do we pressure ourselves into investing in 1 key look for each season, when visits to the Mall would be so much more enjoyable if we were allowed a chance to revel in the indulgent abandon of indiscriminate impulse buys! Plus, if you’re anything like me you have a head full of pastels & pilgrims one day, then lashings of leather and latex the next.

So why choose to be “this” or “that”? Take a deep breath and set your wardrobe free! No longer will your dress sense be dictated by era or icon – let loose the labyrinthine visionary that lies dormant within! Feel an affinity for both Marant’s ‘Gypsy’ and Gaultier’s ‘Cyborg’? Why not wear both? Can’t decide between Cowboys and Indians? Prep school or Pirate? Pile em on! We are living in the Age of Enlightenment, express yourself – Excess is your ethos!

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