In this seminar session we were working on how everything carries a certain 'style'. To demonstrate this idea, a video interview of Dr Cornel West was used. In relation to fashion he highlighted how individuals present themselves in their attire doesn't necessarily reflect style. While clothing choice is inspired by many life factors and experiences (his own as influenced by his vocation/calling, old school, black preachers, jazz musicians, blues artists and reverends) he distinguishes a sense of style comes from within the attire.
In this way it could be stated that each individual doesn't have a single style but an 'own style'.
Henry miller describes his "I invent, distort, deform, confound and confuse as the mood seizes me. I obey only my own instincts and intuitions" (1960's).
while Trumen Capote says that style is a "mirror of artists sensibility- more so then the content of his work".
To test this style vs content, we can use Breuer's chairs as an example. His 1920's work was supposed to be solely about content by having a stylishness finish. The form of the chair was the main focus as to oppose previous fashions of ornate, decorative, victorian arm chairs. His aim was to create "purposeful construction of logical designed objects", however by simply focussing on the content- he intact created a new style of modernism and simplicity, in which form is paramount. Designs like this can be seen today, so must have some sort of style despite being designed to be "styleless".
Feminist writer and photographer writes "antipathy to style is always an antipathy to a given style. There are no styleless works of art, only works of art belonging to different, more or less complex simplistic traditions and conventions." This can be reflected as to mean that dislike of 'style' is just a dislike to one specific element, and art like Breuer's which claims to be styleless cannot be possible, as this itself then creates a new branch of style.
In the example of fashion this can be more easily gauged. A persons outfit choice can take inspiration from many different aspects and styles; but combined overall completes "your style" which people may agree with (in elements) or disagree with (in elements.)
Stylising can also be linking to fashion as in recent months ripped jeans have been seen as 'stylish'- people replicate this "style" but do so however in their own way by being able to use jeans they already own.
