Today, after my English class, I went to the bookstore and found these beautiful things. The bad thing is that the book that I needed wasn't available.
The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy by Gilles Lipovetsky
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Feminism: A Short Introduction by Margaret Walters
The one by Lipovetsky seems interesting. In the back cover it says:
"In a book full of playful irony and stricking insights, the controversial social philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky draws on the history of fashion to demostrate that the modern cult of appearance and superficiality actually serves the common good. Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex role, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of "fashion", Lipovetsky bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from upper- class priviledge into vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values. Whereas Tocqueville feared that mass culture would create passive citizens incapable of political reasoning, Lipovetsky argues that today's mass- produced fashion offers many choices, which in turn enable consumers to become complex individuals within a consolidated, democratically educated society."
Let's read and see...
6 comentarios:
You've got some good books; classics, and the Fashion book seems great. I'll be interested to hear what you think.
Your shoes are cute, and I hope you'll post some photos with them.
Cute flats, I hope you'll comb them with many things.
I also think you got some good books. I'm looking foward for what Lipovetsky has to say, since I think that fashion is an underestimated social force. It functions effectively not only as an economic colossus but also to engineer social practices. For centuries, fashion has always been a way of non-verbally communicating ideas or beliefs about an individual. “It is a language of signs, symbols and iconography that communicate meanings”. In situations where one is not familiar with the customs, misunderstandings will definitely arise. Since cultural attitudes vary from region to region, we must understand that the way we see the world is not necessarily the way others might see it, in spite of the globalization tendency.
Fashion is an inherent feature of human sociality; it is a mean of securing a social identity: the tribal imperative is and always will be a fundamental part of human nature. Like our most distant ancestors we feel alienated and purposeless when we don’t experience this sense of belonging and comradeship. It is no coincidence that the decline of traditional social groupings, which has intensified so markedly since the Second World War precisely parallels the rise of a new type of social group, the styletribe.
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Seeker: In a way, I expect to find in the book some of the things you just mentioned. Fashion is a complex and interesting phenomena that some just underestimate and leave aside. It is so much more than clothes.
When you say "It is so much more than clothes" you're sooooo right!!!!!
Is everything ok with you???
Hope so.
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You've got to let me borrow Lipovetsky's!!!
Ok...te lo prestaré...
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