INNOVATE NOT IMITATE

Innovating and Imitating style are two different things.
Just because you buy what is in style or wear what everybody else is wearing, does not mean you can dress by any means. You were fed that 'style'.
You cannot claim having style if all you do is imitate.
Some people may say isn't imitating inevitable in fashion? After all the seasonal fashion week showcases tell us what is to come and that's what's in all of our stores when the time comes.
No.
Yes there are trends but what you do with those trends is what determines whether you have style or not, trends do not even have to be followed, stand out, be your own inspiration, set your own trends.
Everything is eventually ruined by trends anyway, trends are a bottomless pit of basicness.
Innovate.

What is style?

  -  a distinctive appearance, typically determined by the principles according to which something is designed.

Style to me, should come from within, it should click without even thinking, I see it as a "distinctive manner of expression",  a feeling nothing else can give you. 
I'm still trying to develop my own distinctive style and give it the structure it needs, but I would like to think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

Innovate not imitate.