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At the beginning of the semester, I understand fashion as its most common definition. Fashion represents the popular style trending in the current time. It seems fashion as a very vague word and it is about something that hollows on the inside. However, after a semester of fashion study classes and reading current fashion issues, […]

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This is one of the pictures from Tom Ford’s digital fashion advertisement campaign series in 2016. Amilna Estevao and Grace Hartzel are the models in the picture, and this is photographed by Inez & Vinoodh. With only one glance at this picture, audiences are able to see that the two models are posing in glam […]

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I created this map of intersectionality. My interpretation of intersectionality is that it creates overlapping and interdependent ideas. The 6 words I choose are gender, nation, class, sexuality, race, age and place. These are the 6 words I think represents a person. It brings out a person’s personality. Just like in the reading the author […]

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From Christopher Breward’s foreword to Fashion Studies, I selected two aphorisms. The two aphorisms are “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” and “fashion […]