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Jean Baudrilliard fashion, or the enchanting spectacle of the code.

Figure 1: Tondo, M. (2016) Victor&ROLF 2016 Couture, Available at: https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2016-couture/viktor-rolf/slideshow/collection#1

Figure 2: Vlamos, Y. (2016) Dries Van Noten Fall 2016 Menswear, Available at: https://www.vogue.com/article/dries-van-noten-gender-free-clothingAccording to Baudrillard (2007,p.463) ’The aesthetic of renewal: fashion draws triviality from the death and modernity of the deja vu.’

The Victor and Rolf Autumn 2016 Couture collection illustrates this argument because, they transformed their old collections into dramatic new clothes. The up cycling was a play with proportions of everyday base layers handwoven with leftover fabrics, boosted with swirling tulle volumes and embellished with plenty of hardware and buttons.

Vogue said about the collection: “Haute couture is inherently a push-and-pull of old and new: old techniques, new materials; old maison, new designer; old silhouettes, new interpretations.”

This links back to the Jean Baudrillard’s point that fashion designers take from the past and is a prime example of his theory that beyond the death of a form, there’s ‘always a chance of a second existence’ (p.463)

In figure 2, the image shows a clear example of gender bending in fashion by Dries van Noten.

Brings to the conclusion following the view of Baudrillard.J (2007,p.471) ‘fashion has only to do with the feminine and not with women. Society in its entirety in becoming feminine to the extent that discrimination against women is coming to an end.’ evident that men’s fashion is becoming more feminine with generations. People are less judgemental of boys dressing in feminine clothes. The line of things being too girly is fading rapidly.

Baudrillard,J. (2007) ‘Fashion , or the enchanting spectacle of the code’ in Bernard,M. (2007) Fashion theory. A Reader New York: Routledge pp.463-474

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Thoughts on Ethical Consumption

Thoughts on Ethical Consumption

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4. Ethical consumerism is impossible to some people because of the structural gap between rich and poor.