Four Views on Fashion

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Extract 1: Thank you for all your posts regarding our interview last night with a teenage model about the life and work of young fashion models. All your comments were very interesting, so keep on posting them. Like us, a lot of you found the programme quite shocking. We’re going to invite another young model to our next show, so that she can give us more information about young women who spend their lives on the catwalk. So tune in this time tomorrow. And to finish off today’s programme, let’s go over to Lena Roberts, our fashion correspondent in Paris. Hello, Lena. What can you tell us about the events at Paris Fashion Week?

Extract 2: I really don’t understand why teenagers care so much about clothes. Clothes are just part of your appearance, and they don’t say much about your personality or who you are as a human being. I feel young myself, but I’ve never been keen on fashion, and what’s more, I really couldn’t care less about it. I’m an IT specialist, and I wear clothes I find comfortable, without worrying about what’s in and what’s out. I wish young people would start paying more attention to other things than looking cool, and stop judging people by the brands they wear.

Extract 3: They say that young people know all about fashion, but my fashion icon isn’t exactly the youngest person in my family. I’m 17, and the person who I look up to in terms of style is actually my aunt, who just turned 55. To me, her sense of dress is very tasteful and just incredible. She matches her clothes really well and always looks hip. When I complain to her that I don’t have anything to wear, she always tells me not to worry: look at my wardrobe and find clothes I haven’t worn together before. It always works, because I combine my outfits anew and I always look as if I had a new set of clothes. I just love her advice, and I often copy her style.

Extract 4: Fashion may not be my interest number one, but at least I think I know what’s in, and I love looking at my teenage daughters experimenting with fashions. I must say I really don’t get why so many grown-ups criticise young people for being obsessed with fashion. I think they’ve forgotten when they were younger themselves, and when looks mattered to them a lot. I work as a psychologist, and I know that teenagers want to look cool because it’s part of their image, and image is central to their sense of self-esteem. So why not let them look after their appearance and help them find their own style?