What is Fashion?

After the study of fashion, about the fashion, some of my understanding changed since the beginning of the semester. At beginning, I thought fashion just a daily dressing practice. It was the trend of clothing. However, after study, I found out that fashion relate to many field of study. Susan Kaiser writes, “Both fashion and culture demand more than one discipline or field of study to capture their complexity. As interdisciplinary fields, both fashion studies and cultural studies require the perspectives of multiple fields, theories, methods, and practices in order to analyze fashion and culture adequately.” (Kaiser 2012,8). Fashion is relate to society, age, culture, class, nation, gender, sexuality…etc. From the difference between culture and subculture fashion, to the black designers’ exhibition, I found out the diversity of fashion. Fashion could not just be the trendy clothing, but also can be a way for people to stand out and speak out. At the beginning, I thought fashion is the word for the young people, however, after study the relationship between fashion and age, I found out that old people can also be fashion. The age is not a limit for people, so it could not restrict them. Actually, people start to make clothes for the old people, in order to fit in their body stature. Fashion interacts with our human body. From the dress practice log study, I found people’s different understanding about fashion from their daily dress. As the result, fashion is in our life everyday and many aspects of study influence it.

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