Fashionist crisis

Sometimes, even geniuses have their crises and blockages. That was what he hearing recently, time after time. He heard it from friends, family and even the therapist, that professional paid to solve his problems wanted him to be content with the fact that it is normal to have problems. It was impossible to accept such a thing.

An acclaimed stylist like Cardie should be different. After all, he knew that creativity flowed naturally in his mind. Some people wanted to make money or having a good life. He just wanted to create, it was in its essence.

How could anyone get to that point? Cardie always thought that her fellow stylists sometimes made excuses for not doing a good work or even not doing any work at all. Now, he was in the same situation. His advice for occasions like this has always been: work harder and harder, and if it goes wrong, work harder until it works. Lately, it was taking too long to work.

Maybe, he really needed a break. Whenever he took a vacation, he went to places like Paris or Milan, which were also often his workplaces. Or else, he would go to remote villages, not to relax, but to be inspired by having access to a different culture that few people knew. He abhorred the plagiarism of the garments of a people. He simply liked to have more and more inspirations, because eventually they could be useful.

Cardie considered himself a great scholar and his brain a blender of references. How to transform distant cultures and thoughts into ideal attire for a specific occasion? This perfect balance from seemingly imperfect joints moved his work from the beginning. He wanted to bring conceptual fashion to people’s daily lives. That was his brand until recently.

In the past few months, his mark had been only the absence, a great void. If people depended exclusively on him to dress, they would return to a primitive time when they wore absolutely nothing. Yes, that was perhaps the solution to his despair. He could replicate the story of the clothing that only smart people could see. That would definitely bring him back into the spotlight, but it probably wouldn’t end well.

This time, his reference blender was not working. he didn’t know if the problem was with the engine or the lack of ingredients. Anyway, it seemed that he explored everything that was possible throughout his career.

The way was perhaps to appeal to the fashion cycle. Everyone knows that what is trending will become cheesy and what is cheesy will become trending. Who knows, using the time mix trick would not be enough or at least a good start?

So Cardie walking down the street wanted to go into a store he had never seen before. It was a huge place, one that sells absolutely everything: household items, decoration materials, toys and, of course, clothes. There, it could certainly be a good source of inspiration.

He passed through a hallway full of fifties clothes. With a few touches, that old elegance would become a new elegance. It looked really promising. But promising was not enough for a stylist like Cardie. For him, the result should be revolutionary. Something was definitely missing.

After much searching, he finally found a magnificent hat, made of a resistant and curious material. A totally sophisticated design that contrasted and at the same time modernized his vision of the redesigned 1950s. It was exactly what he needed, the basis of his next collection.

After a few weeks of work, Cardie launched her fashion editorial. And the result couldn’t be better. Many said it was his best work of all times. All those months of anguish seemed finally worth it. Now, all that was missing was to find out more about the hat for his brand to produce in scale. Due to the repercussion of his collection, he would certainly need to produce many.

Soon, Cardie was back at the store and went to ask about the amazing hat. Intrigued, the store owner said he didn’t remember having any hats among his selling items. The stylist then found the hat and showed it to the man who was embarrassed and said that it was actually a bowl for popcorn, peanuts or any type of finger foods. Much more embarrassed, was Cardie with the whole situation.

How could he tell the world that he mistook a bowl for a hat? It would be ridiculed forever, a fashion joke. But there was no way, it was better for people to know from him than otherwise.

Cardie knew exactly what to do and prepared a new fashion editorial, which was even more successful than the previous one. He was hailed as a visionary, the reinventor of the fashion world, someone who went beyond ordinary references. Because he created a continuation of his collection, this time, using a sophisticated potty as a hat.