Last night I had a weird dream. It was fashion related for some reason. All I know is I was walking through what seemed like a house. The weird thing is that some rooms looked like rooms and others looked like outdoors. I remember this beautiful song playing, and the woman showing me around the house singing the lyrics. Now who was this woman? None other than Lady Gaga! O.K, so the dream progresses and I couldn’t help but notice her dress. I’ll never forget, it was long perfectly tailored black dress with fish scale effects. The back was very low cut and the sleeves were long. She also had a lace head piece of different shapes and sizes. The colors where black, but had an iridescent effect of grayish blue. She was wearing cat eye shape sunglasses and  had black lipstick on with the same iridescent effects. Oh, the song she was singing was slow, and was one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard, but unfortunately I can’t remember any of the lyrics. The melody I kinda remember but hardly, it’s so frustrating. THEN she kept singing it and showed me another room. This room was actually the ocean at night with a big bright full moon, and all of a sudden we were walking on bluish gray sand, not hardwood floors (like in the house). Then Mer-men were running past us and for some reason all I could notice was how deep their foot prints were in the sand. They ran into the ocean and swam off. The oceans horizon was actually a mirror. I woke up from the dream like…huh?  I wasn’t even thinking of Lady Gaga before I went to bed.  The dream world inspired me to write this post. I think it’s an untapped resource of creative subjects. Now, if I were a fashion designer, I’d be recreating the dress I dreamt of right now, but since I’m a writer I wrote about it. My point is, don’t discount your dreams as a way to express art through fashion. Interestingly enough one of the trends for fall fashion 2014 is surrealism. Designers like Alexander McQueen utilized surrealism heavily in his work.  It paved the way for some memorable fashion pieces. Before you go to bed, concentrate on your art. Whether you’re a painter, singer, actress, writer, or designer; concentrate on CREATING before you sleep. Don’t be afraid of surrealism because what makes something memorable is its uniqueness. I’d rather stand out then fade into anything! Inspiration is a funny thing. It can come to you in many forms, so keep your mind open.

I don’t know if this post will become a theme for QC, but why not? If I have another weird dream that’s fashion related, then best believe I will be posting! The beautiful image above is by German surrealist, Michael Maier

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