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Fashion - A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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Fashion - A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R486
Discovery Miles 4 860
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On the one hand clothes can supposedly help you out with embodied
life by concealing the bits you feel ashamed of and accentuating
the bits you're proud of. However, fashion isn't really about
clothes in any practical sense, but rather the endless replacement
of clothes by other clothes, and especially the vilification of
certain styles and the extreme elevation of others. Like gambling,
fashion is a system that keeps us captivated by treating us badly,
trapping us in a cycle of promises and dashed hopes by suggesting
that new clothes will help us to like ourselves more. And while
it's easy to dismiss fashion as elitist and wasteful, isn't it also
fascinating, exciting and perhaps sometimes even radical - not to
mention surprisingly egalitarian? Rather than insisting we give up
on the pleasures that clothes have to offer, this brilliant new
book by psychoanalyst and writer Anouchka Grose puts forward a
post-fashion logic that rejects the parade of manufactured
novelties in favour of more idiosyncratic forms of sartorial
imitation. Taking us on a journey from the court of Louis XIV to
TikTok's avant apocalypse, Fashion: A Manifesto scrutinises fashion
from a number of angles: historically, psychologically,
politically, environmentally, even linguistically, to open up
questions about the ways in which it works both for and against us
and looks forward to a future where our clothes treat us - not to
mention the planet - a great deal more kindly.
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