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Not sure if this has been posted. I found this to be interesting. Not "fashion" focused, but clothing none-the-less.
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Very interesting and not surprising.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Nice read, thanks HDG.
Note that it is the reverse of clothing romanticism, as it is often preached on SZ by the usual suspectsOriginally posted by Dr. Galinsky
: according to this article, the clothes are not a description of the wearer's inner soul, whose 'authenticity' could be evaluated, but on the contrary, they work as commands to a non-permanent 'self', telling her who she is at the moment.
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BSR - well said. Thats exactly what I've been trying to get at in posts on "CCP, designer for ghosts" and "possession by clothes". Is "possession" not a dramatization of "clothes invad[ing] the body and brain, putting the wearer into a different psychological state"?
ccp jeans standing freely, as if they're inhabited by a ghost (left) who will possess the human wearer (right)"He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."Comment
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