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Fashion (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a 'machine for maintaining meaning without ever fixing it, it is forever a disappointed meaning, but it is nevertheless a meaning: Without content.

Fashion (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a narrative, a system of signifiers, a classificatory activity that comes into existence and acquires meaning through the transposition of the garment into language, specifically the written word (i.e. Fashion magazines).

Fashion (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a self-contained communicative structure that mirrors literature and that is constituted in and through the written communication of fashion magazines. 'Without discourse there is no total fashion, no essential fashion,' and anchors the existence of fashion to a particular mode of its dissemination.

Fashion (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an extraordinary example of the immediate connection between symbols and society.

Fashion (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding fashion. Fashion experiences itself as a right, the natural right of the present over the past.

Fashion (n.) postulates ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an achrony, a time which does not exist... here the past is shameful and the present is constantly 'eaten up' by the fashion being heralded.