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Whether you love fashion or hate it, or think it's frivolous, or don't really care either way,

it is undoubtedly a part of your life.

And that is not a revolutionary thought by any means. It's basically the gist of

Merrill Streep's iconic speech in the devil wears Prada about the color cerulean. But the

question I'm interested in is why do clothes hold such sway over our psyches? Because there

is so much conflicted thinking around fashion. Like we use clothes to project our individualches, because there is so much conflicted thinking around fashion. Like, we use clothes

to project our individualism, but we're also compelled to follow trends and what celebrities

are wearing. Fashion can make us feel great, but it can also make us feel crap. Fashion actually

does include head to toe, and that forms our appearance, which other people form judgments about us in a very, very short time in under a second.

But I do think there's something about human being self-recognition, where you want to have this kind of cohesive image of yourself, that it's very comforting to think of yourself as a kind of, I don't know,

properly presented individual. And that must relate back to these early experiences where we're

born so kind of flailing and messy and have no control over our bodies. And so if there's this

kind of changing system of outfits that kind of pull you together, you think, well, okay, I'm going to put that on and I'm going to feel put together.

I'm going to function.

But that changing system of outfits is also unsustainable.

Fashion has a huge impact on the environment.

So what will it take to break our fast fashion habit?

It's a really, really difficult one because it is such a pleasure.

Clothes is such a pleasure.

You're listening to All In The Mind.

I'm Sana Khadar.

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