Make It So: Pop Fashion Goes Farther
I’ve got a soft spot for what I call Geek Fashion or Pop Culture Geekery, where pop influences are interpreted as high fashion. There’s some wonderful art and creations out there:
- Check out Kelsey Michele’s Avenger’s Gowns, which came to life amazingly.
- Or how about the Poke-fashion of 29 Cent pens?
- Or maybe you want to get videogame fashion ideas from console closet?
You’ve probably seen assorted Pop Fashions. I ended up getting inspired and doing a contest at my website around this based around a generator inspired by this pop fashion trend.
After seeing people’s reaction to the contest and the generators I began thinking this can go farther, into something that we should consider Making So.
We need to take this farther.*
See this Pop Fashion is a great thing, a wonderful thing. It takes ideas that are not thought of as fashionable into something fashionable. It’s an amazing example of creative stimulation. It helps us rethink clothing and beauty in new ways.
It also shows how geeky and nerdy things can inspire in different ways. This is great for helping more people find the wonder and inspiration that we find – by showing something different than they may expect. Ask yourself how many people are going to rethink comic books and comic films when they see, say Loki-based fashions.
So, here’s what I want to see.
- First, I’d like to see this as more of a subsection of cosplay at cons. Have special awards for interpretations such as the ones shown above. It certainly is a form of cosplay all its own.
- For that matter, perhaps you can take this farther and have a separate pop fashion cosplay event at some cons. This is, after all its own thing. A lot of cons are separating skits off of cosplay, so why not do this?
- Finally, the ultimate – why shouldn’t this kind of cosplay have it’s own convention? It might start small or as part of another con, but I get the impression there’s more of this over time, so why not prepare and have its own event. Besides, if more cons do the above, then more people will do this.
So what do you think? Does Pop Fashion deserve its own awards, events, or even convention? Is there something out there I’ve missed?
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at http://www.stevensavage.com/.
* You can also say “We have to go Deeper”, but look the Inception jokes are over. Really.
Featured Photo By Adam Howell.
