The movie title is Vanity is my favourite sin, but that is not where vanity ends. Not with humans trying to make a phoenix of lifestyle. As we fall allover ourselves in quest for fashion fad, we end up with nothing but twaddle here and there. The world spends so much to give vanity a face.What Lady Gaga might ought as freshly pressed could have been something used by Marilyn Monroe in a burlesque strip 50 years ago. But the world will go gaga about the entire skit. Did you hear what Miley Cyrus did, her dressing?Looking around, you are likely to see what our mothers wore when they were 30 are the designs some youngsters are competing to be seen in today. The media has gone to great lengths to make it seem like it is the first time these styles have been introduced into the world, while the regurgitation is anything but a hand-me-down from generations past.However, recycling history is not such a bad idea. For instance, the world is in such a hurry to keep up appearances that in turn we end up impacting gravely on those who are actually taking their time to grow good cotton wool to ensure that their people are catered for when the cold comes. Yes, history is being recycled and not in a good way, at least not for the good of everyone. This has brought renowned organisations embarrassment, yet somehow they always rise again. Phoenixes? Surely not all of them have the ability to rise from the ashes.Yet, despite knowing all these, one can’t help but browse fashion web sites. That’s where all these seemingly unique waves pop-up. How would one ever focus on their country’s development or cook up innovative ideas that will be them contribution to the cotton field? Not with all the colours, sizes and shapes one would come across. And then there is fear. Regardless of how much information one might possess or knowledge of what happened in the past, there seems to constantly be a fear of what one is yet to learn lurking in the shadows. This drives many to try and alter that which we already know, give it a different name and colour and call it new. We call it retro; making the past appear new. But look, a spade is a spade.