HECOL241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Roland Barthes, System Model, Interdisciplinarity
29 Sep 2016
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Paris - sept. 27 - oct. 5 ! Fashion: a complex phenomena ! criticism - fashion is readily characterized as the poster-industry of consumerist materialism; as frivolous, super cial and evanescent (something that dissipates into the air). Working de nition from text:! a way of behaving or doing something that is accepted by the majority of a group of people at any given point in time, regardless of the size of the group ! Fashion" is more speci c than dress" or adornment" and denotes a particular system of dress! a system model considers the relationship between a designed product and how it is produced, distributed, and consumed ! Consumed - who does it rst?, what groups of people?, when is it consumed?, what happens after consumption? it involves change, novelty, and the context of time, place, and wearer ! Important it look at the extraordinary generalization of fashion - i. e. , the extension of the.
