'There's nothing you can't do...'

Being a little late on the competition bandwagon, I have read many amazing entries for the LOOK Blogging Competition. It may be a longshot, but I'm going to add my post to the pile!

It took me quite a while to figure out what I wanted to do. While my friends settled on accountancy or law, architecture or acting, I never quite knew what profession I wanted to get into; and at my school, it was drummed into you from the age of 11 that you had to make a decision. But thinking about it now, it's simple really. I want to be a writer. A great one. And I want to write about fashion. 

I've always written. As a child I used to staple together little books filled with my own 'Famous Five' or 'Sheltie' stories. I loved any oppourtunity to do creative writing in class, loathing the fact that we had numeracy every day when we only got to write stories once a year. I'm not the best orator, my quiet voice has never been my strong point, but when I'm writing, I can always get down what I really mean to say. It is where I am truly me, not a mumbling, nonsensical wallflower.

And of course, I love fashion! As a child I was a bit of a tomboy, always in jeans and jumpers, my red hair wild and unruly. I would never spend my pocket money on clothes, it all went on CD singles and notebooks. But when that inevitable teenage low self esteem began to kick in a few years early, clothes became my escape. They were my defence against any possible criticism, the way I presented myself to the world. Fashion became a way to show 'me' to the world without having to showcase any of the bits I wasn't happy with. Fashion was what drove me to get up in the morning and face the day positively.

I love that fashion is more than a trend or a frivolous item of clothing. I love the way it makes me feel, as if I'm connected in some way to everyone else out there in this awesomely big world through what I wear.  I love that it can affect any one of us. I love that the fashion industry has such a growing presence that people are beginning to see that fashion isn't just for vain, self centered people- there's much more to it than criticism and ego. In the words of my favorite TV character, who is so much more than the fabulous clothes she wears, Miss Blair Waldorf:"Fashion is the most powerful art there is. It's movement, design and architecture all in one. It shows the world who we are and who we'd like to be."


  
So yes, I'd love to win LOOK's Blogging Competition and be front row and The LOOK Show, simply because I love fashion and I love to write. No other reason but that. Writing about fashion isn't who I am, it's helping me become the person I've always wanted to be.