Learning Portfolio post #4

Before the semester, I think fashion is like a party, every season has different topic, all the fashion brands prepare their own garment for the annual party, then all the newspapers, magazines are the audience, they watch the entire party and write it to the public. So that, everyone gets involved in the annual party. People copy what they see on the newspaper and magazine. But actually, fashion is not only about what it looks like, but also connects with a lot of different things. Fashion gets influenced by nationality, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and etc., Fashion also shapes them. “we can no longer pretend that there is a single way of fashioning appearance in the world. These subject positions are embedded in cultural discourses over which individuals may have little control.”[1] Fashion is not as same as few decades before, now it has more power, fashion has the power to shape the class, personality, and so on. People use garment to arm themselves, to show the class, personality and who they are. Now fashion is a way to express people’s attitude of life to other people. Each attitude affects each other’s and people get rethink through other’s attitude.

[1] Susan B. Kaiser, Fashion and Culture Studies (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012), 28