Game-Changing: Was It, Is It, Will It?

Pink to make the boys wink, or the photographers to snap. Image not my own.

A subject of fashion that i always have an opinion about, am constantly confused by and well i'm just a little bit over it; Street-style. Have i just committed fashion sacrilege? 

Street-style really started evolving and growing into itself towards the tail end of the nineties and in the early noughties and at the time it was, i imagine, this game changing new look at fashion. It is a modernised way of how to understand how society pulls and pieces together trends and personal aesthetic into a perfect harmony for that individual. It depicts how trends are picked up and then like a domino effect explode into 'that' trend you see everywhere; it offers a more unique take on fashion in unlikely places by unlikely/ordinary people. It does make one wonder, if there was no street style how capable would we be in developing personal style and would we still all be as diverse as we are now?

I do entirely believe that street-style is a mood board. A collage of images smeared across the internet and sprawled through publications; inspirational looks, styles, trends and labels which anyone desires. As a visual and creative person this strengthens my appreciation for street-style but this is the only part of street-style in it's entire form which i like. Over the years the deeper i have delved into my fashion studies and work i have noticed that now it doesn't appeal to me how it used to. I have observed street-style obsessively and my biggest annoyance is: Does street-style exist anymore? Do people just dress a certain way to get photographed? I realise this is an unanswerable question as it is extremely subjective, so i guess it's more of a topic for debate and i am aware that i may be contradicting myself but i feel with something that is idiosyncratic and individual that the contradiction and my personal confusion about this topic is completely justifiable. 

I have found that street-style is it's own style, the people featured within the street-style articles sometimes blur together and when their images are collated the styles become less unique and shrink back into a form of obscurity. Therefore comes my point of is street-style dead? or alternatively has street-style morphed into a style of it's own, a trend in it's own right? (Very similar to the Model Off Duty look.) My question about 'Do people just dress a certain way to get photographed?' could be greeted with backlash from many who insist they dress the way they do because they want to; an argument that i can sympathise and agree with, this is why we dress the way we do. Even so i do believe there are a select group of people who dress the way they do, hang out in all the 'correct' haunts just to be photographed. If this is a career based tactic, fair play, fashion can be a complex industry to break. If these people are just dressing like this for the sake to grace the weekly/monthly street-style pages, it agitates me; by doing developing this 'fashion persona'. In a way it's killing fashion, maybe thats a bit extreme, it is clearly damaging street-style however. With these untrue and unchanging looks which i believe is causing street-style to become repetitive and unexciting (it once used to be an epic joyride).

Like a flurry of candy floss, get game changing! Image not my own.

When you next put an outfit together just think, was i inspired by street-style, am i dressing street-style, can i be game changing, like street-style once was?