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The Imperialization Principle — How Fashion Became Systematized

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Fashion is a total social fact, a phenomenon where most spheres of social life intersect. It navigates between imitation and distinction, individuals and society. It is a set of institutions that produce garments laden with meanings, which individuals and groups use for infusing their identities with more or less conscious messages. The “fashion form”1 is constituted of permanent change and semiotic diversity. It constantly brings newness to the world and tolerates diversity, thriving particularly well in modern liberal democracies and market economies, but requiring neither the former nor the latter to exist.

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Title
The Imperialization Principle — How Fashion Became Systematized
Copyright Year
2012
Book
Unveiling Fashion

Print ISBN: 978-1-349-34745-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-00074-3

Copyright Year: 2012

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-00074-3_7