Fashion and luxury fashion in the third millennium

The book adopts five main dichotomies: body fashion or dressing the body; fashion as class distinction or democratization; ordinary or luxury fashion; nudity as sexual attractor and symbol of physical power or dressing as anti-Malthusian device and body protector; fashion as visual language or functional instrument. In the early stage, class distinction reigned, body fashion prevailed on dressing, and fashion on luxury fashion because of the scarcity of materials, body fashion symbolic language surrogated articulated languages, body nudity as sexual attractor provided more population, fashion as Then, gradually because of economic development, the second horn of the five dichotomies prevailed on the first. In the new millennium, swiftness, globalization, web village visual language. On line trading, luxury and luxury, anti-Malthusian sexuality and body protection lost their borders. Uncertainty and fluidity reign, spurring creativity and post pandemic resilience.

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