Reading Report / 2012 Winter/ Fashion Theory/ Prof. Spinelli / Elise Wang Thortein Veblen Dress as an expression of the pecuniary culture Karl Marx The fetishism of the commodity and its secret Peter Braham Fashion: Unpacking a culture production Tim Dant Consuming or living with things?/ Wear it out Reading Report / 2012 Winter/ Fashion Theory/ Prof. Spinelli / Elise Wang/ 2 Intro Arguing against all Forms of Reductionism in accounts of fashion‚ Elizabeth Wilson says that:
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CHANGE OF FASHİON AFTER 1960 TO 2000 Fashion is defined as a style of dress that is popular during a certain time or era. It does not coordinate only towards clothing. It also coordinates hair styles‚ make-up and music. Each of these depends on the type of clothing chosen. Even though fashion reflects a person’s social class in old days‚ it has been reflecting personality for half a century. Music‚ TV programs and ideologies started to influence the people. We can tell a lot about a person by
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Fashion. A word that defines a world in itself. Fashion englobes everything surrounding our environment. There is fashion everywhere. From the pen that a person uses to write to the paper that is used to write on. But more than anything‚ fashion is about how we dress up and cover our bodies. Fashion is an art‚ a passion and a science. The art of transforming mere fabrics into clothing and fabulous creations. A passion that drives people to think out of the box and design garments that make our daily
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Fashion is essentially the most popular mode of expression: It describes the ever-changing style of clothes worn by those with cultural status. A fashion trend occurs when others mimic or emulate this clothing style. Fashions vary greatly within a society over time‚ but also are affected by age‚ occupation‚ sexual orientation‚ location and social class. Today‚ a fashion trend starts with fashion designers‚ who design a spring and fall collection based on cues and inspiration they’ve gathered throughout
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ROUGH DRAFT THE FASHION INDUSTRY: HOW IT WORKS Ever wonder what Yves Saint Laurent‚ Donna Karen and Giorgio Armani do all the time? Work! Fashion is fun creative unique and a very complex process. There is so much misconception deliberate and inadvertent misinformation and ignorance surrounding the fashion world that it is difficult to get a clear‚ unbiased picture of how it really works? Therefore‚ for a better understanding of the subject Fashion itself meaning is a general term for a popular
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Women fashion changes 1940’s-2013 What kind of clothing did women wear in 1940’s advertisements? Women use to put on dresses that were limited and perfected just below the knees‚ head scarfs became more popular. Look today isn’t as precise as it was in the 1940’s. Pattern now days are occasional. Women now wear jean and pants rather than proper gowns. In the 40’s female get into gowns at home typically today female would put on something more offhand
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availability‚ locality‚ class‚ wealth and group affiliation. Fashion is a form of free speech. It not only embraces clothing‚ but also accessories‚ jewellery‚ hairstyles‚ beauty and body art. What we wear and how and when we wear it‚ provides others with a shorthand to subtly read the surface of a social situation. Fashion is a language of signs‚ symbols and iconography that non-verbally communicate meanings about individuals and groups. Fashion in all its forms from a tattooed and pierced navel‚ to
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THE FASHION CHANNEL The Fashion Channel is an unique leading cable TV network specialized in only fashion programming with broadcasting 24 hours a day and 7 days per week.The channel has a steady uprising revenue background and profitable high growth above the its’ industry average from the establishment in 1996 by two men who has an entrepreneurial spirit. TFC(The Fashion Channel) has a huge revenue amount of 310.6 million in 2006 with 80 million household viewer who has subscribed to their
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"Fashion is an underestimated social force. It functions effectively not only as an economic colossus but also to engineer social practices" (Finklestein). Fashion is more than its definition as a style of dress that is popular during a certain time or era. We can learn a lot about our culture by looking at current fashion trends because they show the relationships of consumer tastes‚ social habits‚ and eras in history. If we can define the reasons behind certain fashion trends‚ we can analyze a
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There are some positive effects of fashion style. First‚ fashion plays an increasingly important role in an individual’s life because it is considered as a means of self-expression. Fashion is about your own personal style‚ it not about looking the same like a supermodel. The clothes and accessories that man or women wear help them to identify with a group of others-whether it is a lifestyle‚ profession‚ a religion‚ or an attitude. Fashion does not necessarily mean glamour‚ or the urge to follow
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