Slaves to fashion?

Iconic designer Barbara Hulanicki claims that women dress less well now as people are too concerned about whats fashionable and following trends. She believes the fashion sense of women has become far too predictable. Hulanicki has said.. "Women have such boring wardrobes these days because they must follow fashion, they must, they must. But sometimes it's about saying, 'Oh, this would work well with that.'"  

Hulanicki founded iconic store Biba in the sixties and received an OBE in 2012 for her contribution to fashion.  I have to say I do kind of agree with Barbara Hulanicki about women being slaves to fashion and religiously following trends. I think it may be because high street stores take on trends, and a huge number of people buy their clothes from there, so whether they're interested in fashion or not they are still buying into these trends in some way. I must say i definitely am bored of walking down the high street and seeing hoards of girls in beanies, crop tops and shorts like little Rihanna cardboard cutouts. I actually even stumbled across a page on the internet on how to dress like Rihanna..oh god. I also feel that where other decades had exciting subcultures such as hippies,mods,rockers,punks and so on.. in recent years there hasn't been a big movement like this resulting in more exciting and outrageous fashion.

Barbara Hulanicki has also admitted "It's very difficult to know what to wear now. That's why I always wear black." I have to say I don't blame her you can't go wrong in a black outfit.. plus I think she's looking pretty fabulous for a woman of 77!