Art School Fashion

I took a step back and looked at the general appearance of people that I go to school with. I'm not going to judge personality on appearance, I'm merely observing.
A large portion of the students at the Art Institute dress in an "unconventional" manner. This includes(but is not limited to) wearing all black, chains, fishnets, bright noticable hair colors, daily hair colors, mohawks, abundance of dark eyeliner, tattoos, lip, nose, and "other" piercings. My favorites included a guy with long dreds and a nose piercing which looks like a stick sharpened on both ends, running thru the center of his nose. My typography professor has brown hair with highlights of blue in the front. It is very tastefully done, and is inspiring me to dye my hair again...if only it weren't for my job. My drawing instructor used to wear hawaiian shirts on a daily basis. Whereas this is not "unconventional" the school asked him to dress in a different manner. Now he wears funky bright colored striped shirts.
Another girl in one of my classes has either has a tattoo or hand drawn artwork next to her one eye. It consists of a few spirals that follow the contour of her cheek and eye. It wasn't as elaborate as my halloween facial decor, however it is again, very appealing.
One thing I've noticed about the dress, however, is that where most of the students dress in this way to be "different", a lot of them look the same. I see a lot of red, blue, and green hair. Yes, to the outside world, this is unique. However they're all trying to be different in the same way. People try to stand out and end up looking the same. Ok, so maybe you have blue hair, AND a mohawk, you're one up on the kid in a skull and crossbones t-shirt. If people really want to be different, wear clothes like your grandmother does, don't wear clothes, or don't shop at Hot Topic. Trying to be unique means thinking for yourself and not buying what stores promote towards a million other shoppers. Fishnets- you can get them anywhere. Those screen printed shirts with whitty one liners- hey, they're mass produced. Make your own shirt, sew your own pants/skirt, and please stop wearing black!! Wear flouresecnt purple if you're really trying to stand out.
For those of you who wear those previous stated clothing items NOT to be different, but because you enjoy dressing in that manner, I mean no offense.