LO3 Flashcards
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5 bases of everyday life
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- Offers aesthetic forms in the fields of dressing & clothing, philosophy & religion, music, habits & customs
- Symbolically locates individuals in a social class & community within constantly changing objects, styles & practices
- Key to economies
- Fashion objects enables contact with policies & economies of global economic systems
- Set of resources for the transformation od the individual
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5 main dynamics of the global culture system
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- Fills all aspects of culture —> what we eat, drink, belief in, use of tech…
- Cultural logic —> drives modern life & structures human develop.
- Fashion, tastes & personal style —> clothes, home deco = forming of individuals
- Fashion dynamics —> conflict, acceptance, rejection
- Dialectics —> belonging to a group vs. Diversity
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4 Powers/dimension & approaches to fashion
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- Individual distinction & collective –> individuals feel different
- Dynamic process —> constant movement
- Fluctuating container & communicator of cultural ideals —> combines social & cultural life into an object stylen idea or feeling
- Fashion objects as mobile objects
- Circulates local objects & aesthetics globally
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3 approaches to cultural mechanisms & functions of fashion
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- Model of elite-mass tastes
- Model of collective mass tastes
- Model of fashion objects
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6 approaches to fashion - economy
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- The increasing production of aesthetic goods
- Brand objects
- Networked objects
- Inspiration from straat & youth culture
- Mapping the consumer by producing & projecting desire
- Contemporary social spaces for representing fashion are the street & the online blog
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4 conclusions about fashion
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- A unique and powerful force in life
- Type of confrontation of individuals with the collective, when custom & tradition meet the new, challenging & shocking
- Provoking, challenging & mobilising ethical & socio-political actions
- Innovations with a representative & competitive dimensions symbolise the social & cultural distance of the upper class
