Tweeds, your post is very interesting. I'm going to focus, for now anyway, just on the bits relevant to the question of what a work of fashion is, since that's what I've been concerned with throughout this thread. I'll probably come back and address the other points at a later point, though.
This is probably revealing my biases more than anything else, but I'm extremely reluctant to take works of art away from artists. It's one thing to say that there may be non-art works that figure heavily into aesthetic discourse, but it's quite another to say that anything that figures heavily into aesthetic discourse is a work of art, which is what the view you've presented seems to commit us to.
More importantly, however, I just don't see the advantage of moving to an account like the one that you've advanced here. I'm not sure if you actually endorse the account you've presented or not, but if you do, then what do you think the advantages of it are? Both you (I think) and Rilu seem to be worried that there may be counterexamples to my (admittedly tentative) definition of what a work of fashion is, and that because of this we may have to take another approach to it, and I have no problem with this, but I see no reason to do so until an actual compelling counterexample is offered. The Levi's example, if it is the one that everyone is going to continue sticking to, is going to need to be majorly fleshed out before we can see if it's really as worrisome as it first seems.
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More importantly, however, I just don't see the advantage of moving to an account like the one that you've advanced here. I'm not sure if you actually endorse the account you've presented or not, but if you do, then what do you think the advantages of it are? Both you (I think) and Rilu seem to be worried that there may be counterexamples to my (admittedly tentative) definition of what a work of fashion is, and that because of this we may have to take another approach to it, and I have no problem with this, but I see no reason to do so until an actual compelling counterexample is offered. The Levi's example, if it is the one that everyone is going to continue sticking to, is going to need to be majorly fleshed out before we can see if it's really as worrisome as it first seems.
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