After reading “Christopher Breward’s aphorisms from his foreword to Fashion Studies”, I felt strongly agreed with the aphorism: “Fashion has a tendency to construct its own canons. Like every cultural form, these should be documented and then subjected to debate and challenge. Art historians are expert creators and destroyers of these canons, as surely as modernism follows romanticism. Like art historians, fashion scholar needs to look and question.” I love fashion as much as how much I honor it, just like how people describe it: it is a “fashion world” which is one of the most important and valuable industries that have created redoubtable history. I also see it as an art piece, because it allows creating and innovating. Although people that are not interested in fashion might not feel the same as people who love fashion, in fact, humans have a long history of clothes for over 170,000 years, people have given its more meaning than an “everyday choice” or a behavior of manner; hence, it has been evolving, inspiring and changing everybody’s life. As a result, I agreed with the aphorism, and believe that fashion deserves to be seen as one of the subjects that urge people to study and learn from it.
However, I do not 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.” this aphorism means that you can tell individuals’ psychology status by analyzing their outlook. However, I disagree with the statement because the statement is not rigorous enough to be an aphorism as there are a lot of people dress what they want because they feel like it. If you want to learn a person from fashion, then it will be less accurate.
