We speak to fashionistas to know if they too love to hoard stuff or let go easily
Actress Kate Hudson and supermodel Heidi Klum are self-confessed fashion hoarders. We speak to fashionistas to know if they too love to hoard stuff or let go easily.
Mumbai: Actress Kate Hudson and supermodel Heidi Klum recently admitted that they are fashion hoarders, and love collecting and wearing apparel and accessories from their early days. Like these divas, many of us love gathering and storing clothes and accessories hoping to wear them someday. Somehow, that rarely happens, but still the collection never stops. We find out why some prefer to be hoarders than let-goers.
For designer, merchandiser and stylist Sanchita Majumdar, anything to do with fashion, clothing and accessories is a never-ending topic. She compares shopping to farming a field and says that you can’t keep buying the same thing; you have to have a bit of variety, otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.
She claims, “I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore. Somehow I just love being a fashionable woman.” She adds, “I confess to being a shopaholic. I am too fond of clothes, accessories, and I collect them from designers, luxury brands, flea markets and streetside shops. And while gathering all the stuff I sometimes forget to use them and it becomes storage. It’s really difficult to deal with this habit and for years now I’ve kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer’s crop rotation system, except that instead of wheat, maize, barley and fallow, mine pretty much goes bags, makeup, shoes, accessories and clothes.”
On the other hand, Rashima and Winky Singh of Ministry of Design, feel that fashion is like wine — the older it gets the more value it has. They say, “Many people still look for something classic and not the usual in trend clothing. Obviously, people do follow the ‘in trend’ fashion, but classics go with every occasion and any age. We love old jewellery and have started collecting vintage jewellery pieces rather than clothing. When it comes to vintage skirts or vintage prints, we would not even think once before purchasing it or storing it in our wardrobe.”
Designer Poonam Bajaj, who likes to collect classic timeless pieces, believes in maintaining and storing her possessions in proper order. She says, “The hassle of storage can be dealt by creating extra space in travel bags. My oldest fashion possession is my mother’s pashmina and kani shawls which have been passed on to me and they still look as good as brand new.”
Bollywood beauty and make-up expert Puja Taluja hates stuffing her wardrobe with what she does not wear or use, but stores a few things hoping to use some day. She says, “Luckily, the clothes and accessories that I’ve kept from my earlier days are not very bulky, so don’t end up taking too much space in my wardrobe. What I recommend and what I’ve done is kept stuff in my bed box, as that is something I don’t end up opening too often. My oldest fashion accessory is a choker that I bought when I was in college. Also I have a pair of old, printed bell-bottoms, and recently I saw similar stuff in the international market so I hope to wear it sometime.”
Whereas Ramon Lamba, life and business coach, loves collecting fashion possessions, but tries not to hold on to them for long. She says, “I’ve realised that one should let go of things rather than hoarding and developing negative energy. I tend to discard or give it to charity.
Sometimes, things that are really close to my heart stay with me. My oldest fashion possessions are my expensive bags, which I purchased 10 years ago. I am emotionally attached to them, but I don’t carry them now because they are not in fashion anymore.”
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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