/fa/ - Fashion

Genuinely don't understand this whole culture, (which obviously isn't exclusive to /fa/) surrounding trips.

I'm not saying this in the sense of "oh boy i really hate those damn tripfags", I don't particular care either way, i'm just curious at the reasoning behind it and the almost celebrity (don't blow that word out of proportion, you know what i mean) status a lot of them obviously carry.

Like anyone can trip, I naively assumed when first seeing one that trips were mods or at least exclusive in some aspect.

Some of them don't even bother to trip properly and just fill in the name field (see: Aboriginal_Thug or what I've just done for this post).

Marginally ashamed to admit I spend an hour or so on /fa/ every other day and while you do start recognizing some of the names after a while I know that most trips aren't on 4chan 24/7 and that there's definitely anons who are on /fa/ more often than a good portion of tripfags here and they'll be some who know more about what's /fa/ than a lot of them to (or too? my english is shit).

Pretty embarrassed asking this in as much depth, but yeah.

Help me out /fa/, what's it all about?