Fashion is a social object, but what does it reflect? And how? This work is an rigourous attempt to critically examine fashion with the wide ranging literature.
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Fashion as Communication (Malcolm Barnard)
August 28, 2009 – 17:18
Fashion can be considered as a form of communication, but what does it tell us? And how? This work is an attempt to address fashion as a form of social communication tool.
Subculture: The Meaning of Style (Dick Hebdige)
August 28, 2009 – 17:16
This book is an attempt to subject the various British street fashion to the sort of semiotic analytical techniques propagated by Roland Barthes.
Phone Book (Martin Parr)
August 28, 2009 – 17:10
This book is a visual examination of the cultural peculiarities around the use of mobile phones.
Tokyo Style (Kyoichi Tsuzuki)
August 28, 2009 – 17:04
This series of documentary photography reveals the cluttered yet tactically personalised interior space of the residents of Tokyo.
Exactitudes (Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek)
August 28, 2009 – 17:00
Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, Versluis and Uyttenbroek have documented numerous identities.