Age Like Milk

Become Less Interesting With Age

Become Less Real With Age

Circulate

Create Dispersion

Create Impermanence

Create Surface

Don't Age Well

Drift

Escape

Have Short Memories

Ignore Boundaries

Return

Reward Circulation

Travel Well

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middle age

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one-liner

trend

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Star Trek

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Wheel of fortune

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clothing

makeup

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shopping

purse

winter

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mannequin

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Spider-Man

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

For Barthes, fashion is a 'machine for maintaining meaning without ever fixing it, it is forever a disappointed meaning, but it is nevertheless a meaning: without content, . . .

is a despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

is a great boon to those for whom anxiety and timid self-concealment paralyze them, making nearly 3/4 of their energy unfruitful.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion Friedrich Nietzsche

is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.'

is a means of responding to both the need for cohesion or union and the need for differentiation or isolation.

Fashion is indeed an excellent means of achieving both these effects, responding to both the need for cohesion or union and the need for differentiation or isolation (Simmel 1971/1904). In following fashion we align ourselves with some people and differentiate ourselves from others, but at the same time we enjoy expressing ourselves in a common language that is widely understood.

is a metaphor for the allure that 'newness' exerts on the modern subject in general, and on the bourgeoisie and the middle classes (who aim to exaggerate their social position) in particular.

For Simmel fashion is also a metaphor for the allure that 'newness' exerts on the modern subject in general, and on the bourgeoisie and the middle classes in particular. Indeed the social position of the middle classes predisposes them to fashion, in contrast to the nobility, the bourgeoisie cannot rely on tradition and established styles and, unlike less well-to-do classes, they hope to better their social position and to find their own style.

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).

For Barthes, fashion is Fashion, a self-contained communicative structure that mirrors literature and that is constituted in and through the written communication of fashion magazines. For Barthes, fashion is a 'narrative [. . . ] a system of signifiers, a classificatory activity', and he argues that fashion comes into existence and acquires meaning through the transposition of the garment into language, specifically the written word. He argues that 'without discourse there is no total Fashion, no essential Fashion,' and anchors the existence of fashion to a particular mode of its dissemination. Barthes's choice of material on which he predicated his thoughts on fashion is very sharply focused. He analyses two magazines a monthly (Le Jardin des Modes) and a weekly (Elle) for a year, from June 1958 to June 1959. The corpus in arbitrary, perhaps, but it provides Barthes with evidence of a temporal pattern that shapes and structures fashion and that makes it both intelligble and a 'system'.

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.Trivia

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