1:“Fashion is not necessarily spectacular (though it often conforms to the theory of the society of the spectacle), it can also be demotic, ordinary, mundane, routine and humble. It is the stuff of the ethnographer and the anthropologist.”In my opinion, it means fashion is not inherently dramatic, though often in line with the spectacle culture theory, it can also be demotic, commonplace, boring, normal and modest. It’s something studied ethnographer and anthropologist.

I don’t fully agree with this aphorism. I believe that Fashion can be necessarily spectacular. Some people might think that fashion is a luxury lifestyle, it also requires a wealthy environment, and some people think of fashion as mass culture, which prides itself on novelty, vulgarity, irrationality, and conformity without independent value judgment, or thinking fashion is just clothes or about being different. However it also shows fashion exists in a wide range, it is integrated into our society, economy, politics, science and technology. Sometimes it might seem small but it has a big power. Therefore, people should not ignore its importance. Fashion also should not be boring, because fashion is controversial, and it also requires creativities and imaginations.

2:“Fashion is made manifest in the material forms. It demands to study in the same way that ancient artifacts are made meaningful by archaeologists: through careful excavation.” In my opinion, it means that although fashion is expressed in a physhical and material form, it’s not just clothes, it has spiritual and humanistic significance and is worth studying and digging.

I quite agree with this aphorism, because fashion expressed in a physhical and material form, it’s like it exists on our bodies, but we must maintain the tension. In our fashion adventures, we keep trying, we keep making mistakes, we reorganize our social institutions in every sense of the word. In this sense, fashion, the game that is played on the surface of the body, the social skin, is a process by which we find ourselves