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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Fashion, Time, Language

Fashion, Time, Language

Calefato, Patrizia

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 3330873361
ISBN13: 9783330873360
Publisher: Ed Universitaires Europeennes
Published: Jun 15 2017
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Fashion is a system through which individual and collective representations of body and identity are made. Covers, garments and decorations on the skin create the body, forge it in its being in the world. The clothed body is a combination of signs which include garments, hair-style, make-up, tattoos, and decorations: in other words, everything that makes the body a cultural element and not simply a natural element. Time and language are the main forms of fashion: through fashion we see how time passes, and fashion speaks via its multiple signs. As an example, let's think of how the tight connection between music cultures, sub-cultural styles and fashions in the Sixties changed the perception of fashion itself in daily life: miniskirts, jeans and casual clothes became, at the same time, the symbol of an era, as well as of the timeless features of culture and imagination. Fashion has a twofold nature: on the one hand, it marks the contact areas between the clothes and the body activating the senses; on the other hand, it places the individual's body within the social one.

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