Are you photographing something..or anything!!!

When I play a jazz cd my wife says it sounds as though they playing anything. When I play a few jazz guitar passages she says that just sounds like anything too. So then I just play anything and she says...youre still just playing ...anything. If some of my jazz friends come to call and when I play the anything passages over to them they say:Thats not jazz youre just playing anything. So it goes with styling, you have to know or want to know fashion to really see it. Just as a jazz musician knows his way round the fret/keyboard ( they know the mode, what notes are available and what to leave out)so stylists know their way around clothes and accessories and to the same degree But to some people it just looks like anything ,a load of clothes and colours thrown together, with some fake blood and few dolls with the heads and arms pulled off.
And when they try to reproduce edgy thats just what it looks like because thats what they see
Imagine youre a first time artist being asked to copy a great work of art. How many might decide to copy a Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, because they look 'easy' after all its just paint thrown onto the canvas isnt it?Or another angle re 'easy' pictures:From time to time you may see the fashion illustration of Mats Gustafson either in blocks of colour or 'simple'line drawings or those of Rene Grau. They look pretty simple but trying to re create them shows an underlying expertise hidden by the outward 'simplicity' of the work.
Its the underlying structure to edgy thats hard to catch
All commercial fashion photography 'edgy' or 'catalogue' is difficult. You have other eyes to please and you enter into the area of peer judgment.One emphasises creativity the other restraint
So when photographers are just out of the egg what do you hear. Well I want to do something different, High end fashion, something edgy.

Different from what?? Edgier than what??? All that (not so) easy catalogue stuff.

Most new starters have this attitude because it gives them more long grass in which to hide their lack of fashion knowledge.