Style Cycles

         it’s been interesting so far to observe the turning of the gears as the cycles of fashion and culture roll along in my lifetime. 

I believe in what I call The Perversity of Fashion.  Another term for it is The Cycles of Style.  These cycles are always moving away from what was in place before them, so it’s a constant emergence of what’s currently unfashionable transitioning into the vanguard of the cool: thus the perversity, as something bad is always being chosen as the new good.  It’s not as easy as it sounds, though.  Everything currently ugly and out will not be rising to the world of chic; this perversity of coolness requires an editing process, something some individuals seem to have intrinsically and others will never develop.  And fashion, if predictable in its perversity, spreads beyond it to something indefinable: the zeitgeist, the bubble, the collective unconscious.  This is even more difficult to chart. 

         I’m using fashion as an illustration (it’s visual and obviously trendy), but the wheel turns for everything, certainly for any sort of culture.  Words, thoughts, lifestyles, memes.  Pop culture may move the fastest, but the wheel turns for all culture.