This is true, religious symbols have made it’s way into the world of fashion. Fashion is a way of presenting a statement to the world. I think the role of religious symbols making an appearance in a designer outfit is a way of expressing one’s beliefs and shows the stance of where that individual is categorized under. As I have stated in my past blogs, religion is a way of recruiting individuals into divided groups who share similar interests. Fashion does this in a similar way as well. You can see in today’s society, that people who dress the same way tend to hang out with others who dress similar to them. Therefore, I think that religious symbols presented in fashion are a way of putting their statements out there to seek others who share similar beliefs and interests.
The evolution of tattoos have transformed through years. Some people get it to represent a certain event that happened in their life while others, mainly artists, get tattoos because it fits into the certain persona they are trying to show as their physical image. These tattoos that celebrities get turn into a fashion statement in the mind of the mass media and quickly spread like a disease to society. Clashing religion and fashion together helps society form groupings of people with shared interest because fashion is a visual statement and has no hidden lies. This being said, fashion and religion are two separate things. But who knows, with the uncertainty of what the future holds, the two aspects could further clash together weakening the real meaning of such statements when brought together rather than held apart.
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