“Fashion is the most powerful art there is. It’s movement, design and architecture all in one. It shows the world who we are and who we’d like to be. Just like your scarf suggests that you’d like to sell used cars.”

–       Blair Waldorf (Gossip Girl)

Perhaps it could do without the last condescending line, but the Queen Bee has the fundamentals right: Fashion is art. The last week epitomized this fact with Mercedes-Benz hosting the bi-annual New York Fashion Week where designers from all over the world showcased their latest collections for Spring 2014. Famous designers like Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, and others unleashed into the world their eccentric designs and trends for 2014. While Lincoln Center hosted a plethora of these interesting outfits, the streets around it also became a runway.

Celebrities, magazine editors, bloggers, and just regular fashion fiends plagued the streets with their own unique outfits—their own unique work of art. Some of them incorporated trends seen on the runway (black and white and retro prints) and many took it as a chance to showcase their own creativity. After all, art is what one makes of it.

From bold prints to detailed jewelry, all NYFW goers were dressed impeccably.  I think that it is interesting to see absurd but definitive outfits not just reserved for the runway. Many people are taking that leap and defining fashion for themselves. Fashion is all about self-confidence and being able to express one’s self or creativity, not through a piece of paper, but through wearable fabrics, silhouettes, and textures. Showcasing your sense of style is a work of art in itself. That is why I believe that New York Fashion Week and just fashion in general, is critical to sustaining the art in our lives.