We say "don't dress like the world," but what is worldly when it comes to dress? I think we can learn something about what it is by what the world say about dress? I think also we can learn about it by discerning what's behind the sad looking, gaunt expressions of the models who stride down the runways displaying the latest fashion ideas. What they seem to be saying may relate to the spirit behind the whole business that they are in. Sad and empty. This was evidenced recently as I read about a world-renown wealthy Italian fashion designer who a few years ago was murdered in cold-blood - and some of what the fashion world and its editors wrote about him after his death:
" 'Designer Gianni Versace understood that fashion was about more than clothes. He knew that a simple dress could also make allusions to art, music, architecture, and the cult of celebrity.'
" 'His style was flamboyant, profoundly sexy, and often crossed the line into a wonderful, dangerous vulgarity.'
" 'He unapologetically cut dresses obscenely low or rediculously high. But he could also cut a perfect suit that blended classic lines with delicate sensuality.'
" 'Fashion for him was a glamorous, colorful, sensual world.'
" 'He was a homosexual and designed men's wear accordingly.'"
Through such comments and in looking at those who represent the world of fashion design it's not difficult to sense the spirit behind the whole scene of today's fashions? They also give more than a hint why the poor models look so lost and hopeless? How does any of it line up with the Word of God? It doesn't.
Everyone's life in various ways will reflect what or whom they admire or follow. The story of this man's life, his work and his wealth sheds a great deal of light on the world of fashion. As a Christian I should be concerned with what the story of my life will reveal? Will it highlight my desire to dress like the world - or will it reveal that my life reflects the purity of Christ?
"For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light....Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Ephesians 5:8, 10, 11.
" 'Designer Gianni Versace understood that fashion was about more than clothes. He knew that a simple dress could also make allusions to art, music, architecture, and the cult of celebrity.'
" 'His style was flamboyant, profoundly sexy, and often crossed the line into a wonderful, dangerous vulgarity.'
" 'He unapologetically cut dresses obscenely low or rediculously high. But he could also cut a perfect suit that blended classic lines with delicate sensuality.'
" 'Fashion for him was a glamorous, colorful, sensual world.'
" 'He was a homosexual and designed men's wear accordingly.'"
Through such comments and in looking at those who represent the world of fashion design it's not difficult to sense the spirit behind the whole scene of today's fashions? They also give more than a hint why the poor models look so lost and hopeless? How does any of it line up with the Word of God? It doesn't.
Everyone's life in various ways will reflect what or whom they admire or follow. The story of this man's life, his work and his wealth sheds a great deal of light on the world of fashion. As a Christian I should be concerned with what the story of my life will reveal? Will it highlight my desire to dress like the world - or will it reveal that my life reflects the purity of Christ?
"For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light....Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Ephesians 5:8, 10, 11.
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