Fashion and Philosophy is Art

Postmodernism is the discourse of consciousness that tries to question

the limits, implications, and the realization of the assumptions of modernism;
enthusiasm for expanding the horizon of aesthetics, signs and codes of
modern art; cultural discourse which is marked by the triumph of capitalism,
the spread of information and technology in the massif, the explosion of
consumerism, the birth of artificial realities, world hiperrealitas and
simulation, as well as use-values and the collapse of exchange-value by-
value and value-symbol signs.

A series of awareness and confidence in this new cover various fields

of life. In the world of art, for example, there is the name of Marcel Duchamp
with readymade art and pop art of Andy Warhol with soup cans. In the world
of architecture there is a theoretical work of Charles Jenks with The
Language of Postmodern Architecture (1984) and Robert Venturi with the
complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1962). In the world there is a
Bertold Brecht play with the concept of exile and Antonin Artaud with the
absurd theater. In the world of music there is the name of Nicholas Cage and
Stockhausen with the natural music with oriental music. In the world of
cinema there is a Blue Velvet by David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino film
with a series of new generation. In the literary world with stories appeared a
Burroughs cut-ups and Gabriel Marquez with a magical realism novel One
Hundred Years of Solitude (1976). In the discipline of sociology there is a
Norman Denzin with film studies and Pierre Bourdieu with theatrum
politicum. And in the region there is a philosophy with the concept of Jean
Francois Lyotard paralogi, dissensus and delegitimasi, with the
deconstruction of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault to the study of
archaeological knowledge, genealogical history of sexuality and power
technologies, as well as Jean Baudrillard with cultural studies about the world
of simulation, hiperrealitas, simulacra and the dominance of the value of the
signs and values, cultural symbols in reality one of which is fashion.

Fashion Definition

In English, fashion, comes from the Latin, meaning focere factio and
create or perform. Some other sense, fashion is a piece of the action or
process or a particular form and how to behave well dressed man followed
the convention. Fashion in general can be mean as a way, fashion, style,
styles associated with various human-made products and how to use them
(Fashion is a style of dress but can also include cuisine, language, art,
architecture popular in a culture). While the particular fashion is a clothing
and all equipment.

Fashion is a style and habits prevalent at a particular time. In most

common usage however, the "mode" describes a popular clothing style.
Many clothes are popular in many cultures at a certain time. Important is the
idea that the course design and the mode will change more quickly than the
culture as a whole. Fashion designers create and produce clothing articles.
The terms "fashionable" and "mode" used to describe whether someone or
something that fits with the current or even not so current, popular mode of
expression. However, more so in the modern era of the item called 'not this
time' may indeed fit the term 'Retro. "Retro fashion allows changes to the
rules, like the 'old suddenly new," so fashionable. The term "fashion" is often
used in a positive sense, as a synonym for glamor, beauty and style [citation
needed]. In this sense, fashion is a sort of communal art, through which a
culture examines the notion of beauty and goodness. The term "fashion" is
also sometimes used in a negative sense, as a synonym for fads and trends,
and materialism.

• Brenninkmeyer = Mode is a synonym of fashion, clothes from fabric, a

piece of woven material, made of wool, wool or cotton, which is suitable for
wrapping the body or worn.

• In 1823, certain clothing means clothing worn by certain professions.

• Clothes, derived from Middle French dresser, became the English dress,
which means arranging or generally means the main outer garment worn
woman, or the one seen in the clothes. Meanwhile, the costume means of
personal dress or outfit as typical characteristics of the state, class, or age.

• J. Baudrillard = no fixed identity, the world sirkularitas demonstration, or

appearance, novelty, the most superficial form in which social relations are
constructed.

• Gail Faurschchou = fashion is what the spirit of support from the dominant
way of consumption itself, the finite and the infinite expansion of
modalitasnya.

History of fashion.

If we talk about fashion, could be the beginning of the 19th century.

However, the history of human clothing has been started since humans
began to have a need to protect the body from the natural, weather, and
animals. Fashion evolved in line with social conditions, economics, and
politics of his day. Fashion in the sense of the body coverings as well as
human food is a means to survive. With the development of life, then fashion
changed into a form of social display, show a certain class. In subsequent
developments related fashion with the economic value due to the
development of capitalism. In the next stage fashion refers to a condition
hippereal not referring to the actual reality both as a means of dress,
aesthetic, economic and identity.

Fashion history by year:

• 1920: Since the 1920s, women can breathe with relief from the crowded
corsets, bubble sleeves and long skirts super wide. Collections are a must-
have: baggy overalls. Paris designer who popularized the model of origin of
loose fitting and Woman look is able to make the whole world recognizes as
the capital paris city of fashion.

• 1930: Due to the collapse of the American economy, making everyone

have to scrimp hence the masculine-style clothes-glamorous work clothes
replaced with a neat, feminine and with simple ingredients. Collections are a
must-have: The boss and the subordinate body fit, comfortable to wear.
• 1940: typical style in the 1930s changed to more simple and far from the
impression girly, with a straight cut. Collections are a must-have: The work of
Dior, namely jackets with puffy sleeves and full skirt that tight at the waist.

• 1950: This year the youth rebelled, not wanting to appear like the old
classic. They are looking for new trends, street style, and inspiration of
Hollywood stars like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. Collections are a
must-have: a wide A-line skirt with a tight in the waist, tunic channel H-line,
pencil skirt plus a smaller Y-line below.

• 1960: Age of this concept turned into a collection of vintage chic, electric
and a must-have. The designers also began to take street style teen plus the
style of the Hollywood icon. Collections are a must-have: style mods like
mini-skirts and overalls, plus a typical doll dressed in the style of famous
actress and a model of that era, Twiggy.

• 1970: There are two styles in this era, hippies and punk. Collections are a
must-have: the punk style is known for stocking nets, torn shirt, skinny
pants. And style synonymous with hippies and flower motifs patch work, bell
bottom pants, plus a mini skirt.

• 1980: Age is known as The Spulgre Generation, since credit cards came
into use. People shopping for clothes with a certain brand. Collection a must-
have: a balloon skirt and leggings.

• 1990: This period is called the era of technology because the Internet was
introduced in everyday life. Collection a must-have: Bosses without shoulder
pads and cardigan jackets instead.

• 2000: As the Age of the walk, alternating fashion. No more limits to fashion
each person is free to dress in accordance with their respective personalities.

(philosophy) Fashion Ontology in Trinidad - Daniel Miller

• Fashion as the Nature of Modernity
Fashion appointed as the essence of modernity because fashion is
considered as a mechanism that highlight all the elements of the modern
condition.

• Tragedy oil-boom that occurred in Trinidad (1973 and 1981) makes

Ontology fashion shift.

• The origin of the duality of the Caribbean will be the background of slavery
and labor in Trinidad birth:

new values for the human race after the deleted slavery.⇒
The concept of freedom, people will not longer tied to an institution and
exploited.⇒

• Dualism beauty in Fashion

1. Transcendent Aesthetic

Explained through the existence of spatial analysis of visitors or a place to

live (The normative living room) by a community. There are inter-class
houses whose owners have incomes High and Low Incomes. It is clearly seen
that fashion as a marker of social class. Houses that are characterized by
maroon, a little burgundy to rosy on furniturenya, lists gold brown, decorated
with curtains, carpets, also a vase which was dominated by maroon and is
the home that in fact the owner had High Incomes (principle: any color as
long as it's maroon or equivalent in gold or brown). While the home is
minimal-low-income owner incomes, decorating walls made from old pieces
of pictorial model or idol of the European and American or local models taken
from the former newspaper. Red roses placed digelas glass was seen as
something normal. In every corner of the room is filled with wedding photos,
family pictures, this is a moral expression of the pawnbroker.
Also shows the order of someone's home and ethnic religious symbol of the
pawnbroker.
2. Transient Aesthetic

Exposed through the clothing. In dress we usually already have their own
rules. For example when a party wants to travel to the formal wear tips, for a
man wearing a neat suit with a shirt, a woman wearing a dress. From these
rules, over time there is no longer strict rules about how to dress. Marked as
emergence of the concept of Newness. Newness peace be interpreted as an
expression of individual competition. But do not stray from the previous
rules. Newness of this concept began to emerge of the designers to create
brands of clothes made. Next comes the so-called style. Forms that might be
called a style rather than fashion. Differences in the style of fashion is the
style or styles emerge as something very personal and express particular
aesthetic as the resistance of the categories of strict performance. In
transcendence, the overall style centered on how something is
dipadupadankan. With style, there are certain combinations are created to
achieve maximum effect. Originality is primary. Style brings us to how we
move, walk, turn around, as if we are united with our dress style.

The concept of style:

• Individualism = between clothes with the wearer as a character of self-

expression.
• Transient = shift mode, for example: hand-painted T-shirt tshirt was
actually the first existing conventional but is now a trend for young people to
wear them.

The Origins of Ontology

1. Transcendence modes: attainment status of the aspects of identity.

Emerged as a symbol and sign.
2. Transient modes: one form of being - fashion as a consumption mode
3. Values that arise from the presence of duality: Value and Freedom

Fashion and Ontolgy in Trinidad trying to discuss the problem of equality

between the means of consumption (modes of consumption) with the basic
nature of existence (the fundamental nature of being). Fashion is not as
described by Benjamin, but it is a cultural vehicle through ontological Which
forms are constructed and understood. Dualism in the territory described in
material culture. Aesthetic transcendence in the region marked by
interiorisasi process and orientation to the inside. While individual originality
transiensi is focusing on the external display and the display is based on
certain events. Fashion has been generalized into a mode of consumption,
with a central aspect of temporality. Fashion used to express transiensi but
also against the differences that resist change in order to preserve the
normative.