Your style changing every year isn’t being fake. It’s you trying on who you’re becoming.

Identity gets found by being tried on. Changing how you dress, what you listen to, how you talk is not a performance of someone else, it is the ordinary way a person tests which version fits. The accusation of being fake usually comes from people who liked you predictable.

If something is pulling at you that does not match last year’s version of you, give it a month rather than a verdict. Some of it will stick and some will fall away, and both outcomes are useful. You are allowed to find out by doing.