To me your posts suggest that you want to be different from the crowd and feel cool about it. Fair enough. We all go through the kicking and screaming I'm special fase. You might get over it or continue to differentiate yourself. No worries. Maybe the Armani guy thinks he can get the job quicker then the other dude but if he comes accross as a cocky prick and knows little about what the job is about, then bye bye see ya later. The other dude could be asked to dress a bit smarter if required (maybe not) and because he knows his stuff, he will have a good chance of getting it. because that is more important. Unfortunately a lot of businesses are deceived by the 'Armani trick'.
There's more to the one dimensional side you're portraying here. It's not all black and white. Everyone can choose what they like to portray and that's great. Don't despise people who choose to follow the norm, adapt, whatever. If you want to wear red sweaters GREAT. Honestly. Start a movement
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I don't like this uniformed world. We had that kind of world in comunism and now we follow an example of American democracy. But there's no democracy at all. All we have are rules hidden in imposed templates of behaviour. Fashion trends, pop culture, TV, comercials, celebrities, it all suck big time.
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Yes imaging and brandbuilding is the way of the world a lot nowadays. That's business for you. I don't like it either, but I do understand where it comes from and how it works. There's still plenty of people who decide not to go along with it and good on them. I see where you're coming from. I agree it can be very 'fake' and that's crap about it. But know the rules of the game and you don't worry about it so much anymore. Well, I decided I wouldn't, because I will always look past the outfit to the human being behind it. Make that mistake once and never make it again to judge on how someone is presenting themselves. (I knew someone once who looked like ************ and smelled like anything but boy he was very brainy and had a degree in Archeology. Go figure I tell you. A lot of people treated him like ************ too which was not very courteous.)