CALLOUS CREATIVE CANNIBALISM

Creativity, in its very meaning is the creation, the birth, the propagating of the unique, and the specialized, the rare and the unusual, through one's own ideations with a healthy dose of imagination.

- By Dinesh Chandrasena

This could be in varied areas and fields of work, including but not limited to Music, the arts, literary works, fashion etc. Even in the somewhat new and 'step lightly' areas of technology and the sciences creative individuals are highly sought after for their innovation, and 'thinking ahead of the times' processes. The creativity we have come to so admire and applaud though is going the way of the Sabre-Toothed Cat, thought of and spoken of in rarefied circles, but sadly extinct.

This 'creative spirit' is on a slippery slope and is cascading downwards before our very eyes. I mentioned a few professional realms above that are being ruined by the 'non-creative' spirit, the essence of which is in the creator's lack of ability, and in many cases downright laziness. The idea now that "why do the work when I can take someone else's" is not only a reflection of the persons idiocy, but also a mirror held to how society in general lets 'inefficiency' just slide. This desperately needs to come to an end.

In this article I speak on an area that I am familiar with and is what those in it refer to as the 'rag trade' better known as the "fashion industry". Let us begin by looking back to the first 'Designer' of repute Madame Marie-Jeanne "Rose" Bertain who rose to immense fame creating awe inspiring custom gowns for the much maligned, and misinterpreted Queen Marie Antoinette in pre-revolutionary France. Madame Bertain's influence was so widely felt that she was deemed the unofficial 'Minister of Fashion' by the courtiers at Versailles. Credited with founding what was to become the art of "haute couture", She was a pioneer and 'Creator' in the truest sense of the word. Fast forward to the times of Monsieur