So i'm sitting in a library looking for knowledge on fashion designing and becoming more familiar with designers and brands because I like to know these things. I does this! So I stumble upon The New York Magazine in which I discovered an article about a boy who is obsessed with fashion. I thought to myself hey how does this 17 year old kid get a whole article about his fashion addiction in this magazine, like really what did he have to do. I didnt read the headline of the article, but as I skimmed through this article something wasn't right. So I went back and took the time to read the headline "The Confession of a Serial Shoplifter"!!

Kevahn Thorpe developed a passion for fashion and began stealing high end merchandise at the age of 16. The magazine called him "...all of 16 years old, a small kid lost inside a striped Hugo Boss sweater." Well i'm not going to sit here and tell you the story. There is a bigger picture that I see here. I see a boy who believes fashion and what people see when they recognize good fashion is far more important than his freedom. He knows that all of his friends know that his clothes are stolen, he knows it is risky and dangerous, against the law and the consequences it comes with but yet Kevahn continues his crimes. Even after the sympathetic judges gave him chance after chance he continued. This only means that it doesn't matter to him. It has gone beyond projecting an image to boost up the garments popularity or his own. He is in the grip of something bigger than himself.