Let's talk about Miley Cyrus

though you probably know as well as I do that she's all I usually talk about.

I don't remember a day in the past 3 months + in which I haven't seen  a couple of hundred posts about Miley Cyrus . She sang about the usage of ecstasy which then became popularised by her song under the alias of 'Molly', she gyrated on a number of household objects in an all white outfit, stripped to a flesh toned, tighter than a Jew's budget, latex two piece and twerked on a foam finger, a teddy bear and a married man all the while being live on camera. More recently, the 20 year old has come under fire after being filmed swinging naked on a wrecking ball by Terry Richardson for her latest music video.

'She's insane,' you say as you light a match.
'Shes on drugs,' you claim as you throw your foam fingers and your teddy bears onto a heap.
'She's a slut,' you all cry into the burning remnants of your Hannah Montana memorabilia,
"She's just being Miley," I laugh, which entails scoring her first billboard hot 100 hit, nearing 14 million twitter followers and breaking a Vevo record TWICE. Yes, that's right, twice in 3 months. So now you tell me, who is really insane? Madonna has been getting naked for the public for longer than Lindsay lohan has sought professional help, Britney has done it, Rihanna does it, Gaga does it, in pop getting naked has been exhausted, it's expected; the equivalent of washing regularly.

And you're talking about it. Everybody has or will talk about it. Is it because Cyrus was once a Disney star? Is it because, without celebrity status, we don't have the same freedoms to do the things which Miley engages in publically, or is it because you just genuinely can't fathom a justification behind nudity other than someone being sexually promiscuous? And what business of yours is it if she is?

Do I think that Miley Cyrus is acting out? As a nineteen year old who was able to rebel from a younger age without having to carry a company or a nations heart on my back no, I do not. In fact, I recall Cyrus wearing a pair of tight black booty shorts while performing on her Wonder World tour in 2009 and shaking her bum on an array of props the same way she did to Thicke last month.
Perhaps Cyrus is twerking from extremity to extremity to make it absolutely clear the words 'Hannah Montana' are never uttered to her again. I'd be speculating if I input that she was perhaps acting in such a manner to win back the attention of a man who was less than faithful to her; who she envisioned herself spending the rest of her life with. But did anybody ever step away from the message boards long enough to think that maybe, JUST maybe, Miley was just growing up, albeit behind a thousand lenses. The truth is that it doesn't really matter what any of us think, we're probably all thinking about it a lot more than she probably does or ever has.

Fear and Clothing

There is a fear in getting dressed. A fear that maybe our clothes say more about us than we'd like them to, be it conscious or not; that may explain how conflicted I am with my own wardrobe, the wish-I-hadn't-s and the wish-I-could-s. I would like to say that my clothes express my mentality on any given day however, if this were true it gives me great concern as to some of the states I've been in. I saw style as style, but there is more to that burnt out vest than just comfort just as there is a whole train of thoughts behind those sequin leggings that I wish it were still acceptable to wear. Scary, huh.

I worry now that, when I'm baring my legs in a tartan pinafore pulled from the rails in Topshop, or flaunting my midriff in a slogan crop top, I am making a statement about myself that even I am not aware of. I once thought it was just fashion, just something to have fun with and as long as I felt good about it than why should I show interest to what anybody else had to say? Now I'm sat thinking that maybe there's more to that than I had ever dared look into.

ATTENTION

In my endeavor into the world of fashion, a journey which I departed on without a stitch in tow somewhere in the region of '08 and '09, a blog specific to my own experience in the art seemed an essential building block in establishing myself as an influential figure.

Aaron Moorhouse is an 18 year old student from the United Kingdom, currently enrolled on an Art Foundation course, with dreams of admittance to CSM, where he hopes to study a BA (Hons) in Fashion, more specifically, in menswear.

Pardon the third person, I am Aaron Moorhouse. I do not find fashion to be materialistic but rather, optimistic. Fashion is a beacon and a voice for those who are still finding themselves, it allows us to tell people who we are without having to open our mouths. Fashion allows us to play an array of characters, to express a feeling, a trait, it allows us to dress for who we are and who we want to be, not for what we have.

I may be Aaron Moorhouse; friend, brother, Gossip Girl fanatic but, thanks to fashion, I am so much more than that.