How fashion helps us express who we are -- and what we stand for | Kaustav Dey

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🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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No one thinks twice about a woman wearing blue jeans in New York City -- but when Nobel laureate Malala wears them, it's a political act. Around the globe, individuality can be a crime, and clothing can be a form of protest. In a talk about the power of what we wear, Kaustav Dey examines how fashion gives us a nonverbal language of dissent and encourages us to embrace our authentic selves.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features fashion revolutionary Kostov Day, recorded live at TED at Tommy 2017.
0:09.5	I was around 10 when one day I discovered a box of my father's old things. In it, under a bunch of his college textbooks, was a pair of black corduroy, bell-bottom pants.
0:23.6	These pants were awful, musty and moth-eaten,
0:27.6	and of course I fell in love with them.
0:30.6	I'd never seen anything like them.
0:32.6	Until that day, all I'd ever known and worn was my school uniform,
0:38.3	which, in fact, I was pretty grateful for,
0:42.3	because from quite a young age, I'd realized I was somewhat different.
0:47.3	I'd never been one of the boys my age,
0:50.3	terrible at sports, possibly the unmanliest little boy ever,
0:57.0	I was bullied quite a bit.
1:02.0	And so I figured that to survive, I would be invisible.
1:05.0	And the uniform helped me to seem no different from any other child.
1:09.0	Well, almost.
1:14.4	This became my daily prayer.
1:18.2	God, please, make me just like everybody else.
1:22.3	I think this went straight to God's voicemail, though.
1:26.2	And eventually, it became pretty clear that I was not growing up to be the son
1:28.3	that my father always wanted.
1:30.3	Sorry, Dad.
1:32.3	No, I was not going to magically change.
1:36.3	And over time, I grew less and less sure that I actually wanted to.
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