[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

Making fashion is a creative endeavour. Picking fashion is an expressive one.

And yes, I agree that fashion is not High Art. I, at least, think of High Art as being inherently useless, which fashion is not. I don't mean useless in that it can't carry a message or give us pleasure or beautify the world, but it's not something like food or transportation or shelter or social things.
Clothes are necessary for keeping one warm and/or keeping one in an acceptable degree of modesty, but fashion makes it pretty (or not). It's similar to making a pretty quilt when a plain puffy blanket would do quite well.

Also, one has to have displayed some kind of thought and effort for it to truly be high art. Agony, I find, is an integral part of the process, whether it's in the planning or the execution (though preferably both. Shitting in a can doesn't indicate agony to me, unless it happened a particularly bad poopy, but that's not the type of agony I'm talking about).

[/pointless elitist crap]