yes, indeed! but why aren't we hearing more about such developments?
is democratization of fashion necessarily, as Faust would have it, its "bastardization"?
525252, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think trends in fashion aren't necessarily a meta-fashion, since they don't have to be based on the conceptual function, but can be created in entirely different ways.
so the observation is that trends are aesthetic and phenomenon of trends (qua trends?) are conceptual. The latter is an attribute of meta-fashion, we could say it "transcends" clothing because concept is not practical.
I have mentioned this before, and thanks Rilu for further clarifying my point: we know conceptual clothing is not necessarily unwearable but for the sake of delineating concepts "clothing" from "fashion" from "meta-fashion", we will argue that they are.
H&MxMMM is essentially conceptual-ness being aestheticised.
This is where the mindfuck is for me: meta fashion is now fashion
disregarding overtly practical clothing such as uniforms and workwear cause thats a whole other discussion, when fashion is designed as in fashion design (go away Captain Obvious) so in fashion design practicality is secondary to aesthetic and aesthetic is secondary to concept.
Hyper capitalism means H&M can even aestheticise that which trancends "just clothing"; turn "conceptual" into a "look" and really sell nothing.
Last of all: Macro, was that unsubtle sarcasm or confused sincerity or both?
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