- Original:
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.
Revised:
There is a glorified image of fashion formed by the images put forth by our society. Images as those of fashion shows and red carpets target to spread wide influence through press, penetrating cultures and building an incomplete notion of fashion. While popular fashion is indeed spectacular, an equal or even greater amount is ordinary and illustrate the humble routines of our daily lives. Ordinary fashion neither good or bad. It can be boring but the mundaneness can also be very powerful. Fashion takes on various forms and intent and this determines whether the outcome will seem more spectacular or mundane to the eyes. In this way, I agree with the aphorism.
- Fashion can be about confirmation, of self and others. But it is also about anxiety, ambiguity and worry. As an aid to understanding psychological complexities it is unsurpassed. (merged together with the “fashion is made manifest in material forms” aphorism)
Revised:
Fashion covers all areas of the human emotions. It can display positive areas of confirmation or the negative of destruction in the self. For both the creator and the participant, fashion becomes a representation of the self through the emotions channeled through it. In this way, fashion aids in illustrating psychological human complexities. Fashion goes beyond the material form in this way, through the emotional implications it encompasses. While its material aspect enables the study of fashion objects, sometimes the immaterial significance is so profound that it transcends the study of the physical object. The psychological complexities are contained in and indicated by fashion objects, therefore it can be implied that fashion is made manifest in material forms through the various emotional components of the self.
