FSN 232 Study Guide - Japan Standard Time, Jean Paul Gaultier, Williams Fw10
8 Apr 2013
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Article: the new face of eating disorders (can incorporate into exam, project etc) Males feel ashamed and like they can come forward. What are fashion cycles and flows: trickle-up, down and across, cultural appropriation. A lens (one perspective) to understand a phenomenon (the topic that you are studying; when you put on yellow glasses, you see through the yellow perspective) No theories are right or wrong, just on perspective to see. Trickle down theory: fashion trends start among the elit or fashion leaders and move down to the masses or fashion followers. Georg simmel was the first to apply this to fashion: 3 stages 1. Upper class change fashion to maintain differences *imitation and differentiation. Grant mccracken: book: cultural consumption; said: society isn"t as based on social class, so need to modify change: no longer is it the most rich, it"s the most powerful . Ex corset (2850$, rich) than poor made with cheaper materials.
