Clint Catalyst's Page

Status

Single (Gay), Here to Network

Occupation

Writer / Blogger, Student, I'm Whatever You Want Me To Be

Company

Clint Catalyst [dot] com

Current Position

www.twitter.com/clintcatalyst

Website

http://www.clintcatalyst.com

Favorite Designers

profile.to/clintcatalyst ; http://www.myspace.com/clintcatalyst

What Connects You to the Fashion Industry?

A general grasp of the concept that "fashion" and "style" are wildly disparate. Oftentimes fashion is the most accurate barometer of a political climate, its social mores--societal norms, customs, virtues or values. That's why fashion is fleeting: the Industrial Revolution, Dior's "New Look" in response to the end of WWII, HippieModPunkPost-PunkMaximalistLogomaniaExcessiveCommandingAndDemandingMinimalist.. highly significant moments in the human condition's interminable umbilical cord.

Style, however? When it's done well? Style saunters by society's prevailing customs, trends and etiquette with an awareness—and an individual flair. Personal style asserts itself fearlessly, though this by no means declares it an affront: take the visionary style of Isabella Blow, who herself was always a vision; the incendiary self obsession of Comtesse di Castiglione; the body-as-canvas approach of Leigh Bowery; the new-before-there-was-a-"New Romantic" style of Steve Strange.

Then there's styles of writing: Burroughs, cummings, Faulkner—as well as contemporaries of the Neo-Narrative: Dodie Bellamy, Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper.

Styles of architecture, styles of painting...rather than continue rattling on, why don't I leave it at this: Merely an opinion, yes—but mine is that one's personal style has the ability to change history, the world as we know it.

Fashion is the "trickle down" of these disruptive moments. A single individual has the power to change consumer buying power, to define that 'Jackie O' archetype that's endlessly replicated, as is the 'Audrey Hepburn,' the 'Dita von Teese,' the 'Anna Wintour'...

And whether in literature, music, painting, sculpture, architecture, philosophy: it's a symbiotic relationship that requires keen observers to take note.

Part of what makes me a fashion person is that astute sense of observation by someone like Valerie Steele; another part, a dash of the mischievous Rochester who—through his dress and writing—could never cease going beyond the boundaries, the established parameters; and a pinch, perhaps, of Wilde's ostentatious presentation and inimitable wit.

But more than anything? What makes me a 'fashion' person is a statement I won't make myself. If by chance you ever hear someone describe ______ as "that's so Clint!"?

Then that. There.

I'm not delusional enough to think I've created a wrinkle in our timeline:
Let alone the resplendent slash I esteem...

I want to burn burn burn down the night, grasp its inkiness by my fingertips,

Polish the stars.

Reasons for Joining

Because—as exhausting as my nom de plume has proven itself over the years—I've come to face the truth: my function is that of a 'catalyst.' The more engaged I am in something; the more intense the reaction.

Hear me out: It's not always "good"... but it's good that it always isn't.