This is a remix

When considering remix in our culture it seems almost impossible to identify completely original content. There is so much shared information available to so many that everything does seem to take the form of a remix. Obviously in music a remix is easily identifiable and enjoyable here is a remix of Wheetus’ “Teenage Dirtbag” by Scala & Kolacny Brothers!!  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cOhNdlKwoc

When thinking of Fashion, I believe that everything really is a remix. Many designs are inspired by ideas from the past. Some fashions take from other designs are different in slight and similar ways to each. The reading’s made me think of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 59,

” If there is nothing new, but that

 which is

Hath been before, how are brains are beguil’d

Which, laboring for invention,

Bear amiss

The second burden of a former child…”

I think remix culture is a good thing and in a form a way of evolution I definitely take inspiration from other people’s work and I would hope that others could be inspired by my efforts. I do think that there are countless ways to express perspective and remixing is a vehicle for one do so. As Belshaw states in chapter 6 of his book, "we learn from imitation, wether it is a toddler learning how to feed themselves by watching her parents eat, or a budding artist painting in the style of one of the masters"(86)
Again thinking of fashion I love when designers design under another label perhaps for a capsule collection I think collaborations are fun and interesting and way to produce new efforts. Or referencing a specific period look is another form of fashion remixing. How does one may a sixties shift dress current in 2016?  I hope I am not alone in my thinking and I wonder what other’s think?