Originality?

Today myself and a friend from my textiles class went to UCA Epsom open day. We both really loved the place and spent the whole car journey home feeling inspired and talking about ideas we had gained from the day. The place itself was very clean and modern and the town seemed quaint yet there were many artistic looking students strutting around.

One thing I did notice was that there seemed to be so many students with septum piercings! I find it strange that different parts of the country have their own mini-trends.

Septum piercing. Image cropped from Google

Another thing I noticed about the day is that - although us artistic types like to think of ourselves as individuals - all the girls seemed to look the same. Everyone seemed to either have 1) ombre hair 2) a military jacket 3) a messy top bun. Some girls even had a combination of all three. This made me wonder, if everyone is dressing the same, how can anyone ever class themselves as unique? The popular trend at the moment is 90s grunge (which I do love). This trend is seen as fairly 'out there' and 'original' - however if we're all dressing the same is this really true? WHO KNOWS... Who cares? Its cool. (But not original.)