Starstruck

Wearing: Saint Laurent star print dress | Vetements Black Leather Platform Boots | CÉLINE box in nude (past season, similar style here) | Yves Saint Laurent Beauty Women’s Rouge Pur Couture Satin Radiance Lipstick in #52 Rouge Rose

The title is solely inspired by the gripping allover star print on my dress. But it prompted me to consider how the structure of fame has shifted drastically since the digital age. As a result, the term starstruck now bears a decidedly more transitory nature.

The rise of digital influencers via accessible, changing social tools blurs the line between public and private lives. The phenomenon often further complicates the already unsettling, fleeting nature of notability.

One of topics I mull over the most is if there is a real balance between art and commerce: the age-old conflict many aspiring artists have tackled might just end up being a weary compromise on their artistic ego. One proof is that the clash isn’t trending any more sophisticated– at least from the perspective of high fashion, the artistic expression is thinning in the face of trends. One potential root of art’s minority status is its coveted scarcity, which builds art on a delicate base and makes art creation itself a work of art.

One of the less confounding result of today’s quick digital sensations is a return, voluntary or not, to constant creative production whose goal is not only first caliber but also relevancy and timeliness.

“Change everything except your wife and kids”, says Lee Kun Hee, CEO of Samsung. Once and for all in any creative context is so out of touch.