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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1. How would you describe Zara’s financial performance? Since only Inditex historical financials are shown in the case‚ we took the financials of Inditex to describe Zara’s financial performance. It is reasonable to take Inditex financial data because Zara made up 76% of Inditex’s sales in 2001. Zara (Inditex) Financial Performance in 1996-2001 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Liquidity Ratio (current ratio) 0.81 1.00 0.88 0.87 0.90 1.02 Leverage Ratio (debt/ equity) 1.98 1.84 1
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Capital Structure‚ Profitability and Market Structure: Evidence from Textile Industries in Bangladesh. Introduction In corporate finance‚ the academic contribution of Modigliani and Miller (1958‚ 1963) about capital structure irrelevance and the tax shield advantage paved the way for the development of alternative theories and a series of empirical research initiatives on capital structure. The alternative theories include the trade-off theory‚ the pecking order/asymmetric information theory
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Case Study: The Fashion Channel Case Study: The Fashion Channel Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Problem Statement 3 Proposed Scenarios & Analysis 4 Scenario #1 4 Scenario #2 5 Scenario #3 6 Proposed Solution 7 Implementation Plan 9 Conclusion 10 Exhibits 11 Exhibit 1: GFE Associates: National Consumer Survey (excerpts) 11 Exhibit 2: GFE Associates: Analysis of Attitudinal Clusters in U.S. Television Households for The Fashion Channel 12 Exhibit
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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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decade in which fashion entered the modern era. It was the decade in which women first abandoned the more restricting fashions of past years and began to wear more comfortable clothes (such as short skirts or trousers). Men also abandoned highly formal daily attire and even began to wear athletic clothing for the first time. The suits men wear today are still based‚ for the most part‚ on those worn in the late 1920s. The 1920s are characterized by two distinct periods of fashion. In the early part
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History of Fashion Fashion is something people deal with every day. Whether it’s choosing what you’re wearing‚ going shopping‚ or just watching television‚ fashion is impacting people constantly. From animal hides in the early ages to high fashion runways in the modern day‚ clothing has gone from an essential component of survival to a basic part of self-expression. There is a controversy about who was first involved in fashion and clothing. Many can agree that the early cavemen started
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flavor to life. It is an important cause of fashion craze. Nobody likes the conventional‚ outdated things. By following the latest trends in fashion the youth try to show that they are novel and charming. Fashions have been a major cause of the progress of civilization. In fact‚ fashions and prosperity have close relations. Where there are progress and prosperity there are fashions. Urban society is more fashion conscious than its rural counterpart. Fashions are contagious. When people meet with one
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Fashion and The Environment The world that I envision is one in which people make conscious decisions—weighing the effects and consequences that their actions will have in the real world. In this more perfect world there would be less waste. While people would still buy and consume‚ it would be done more responsibly with an emphasis on sustainable‚ locally manufactured and distributed goods. Fashion design in this world would not suffer from these reforms‚ but would evolve and thrive using environmentally
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"Fashion is a statement. Fashion does not have to be worn casually‚ nor outside the runway. Fashion is fit for all sizes for all people of all ages. Fashion is an art of personal self-expression‚ not an excuse to be pretty or popular." -Anonymous. People use fashion as a way to express themselves and to show who they really are without having to say anything. Fashion can be used to show boldness of one or creativeness. When we look into our world today we see many combinations of style. The clothing
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