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Leere der Sehnsucht: die Mode und das Regiment der Dinge

Author(s): Leutner, Petra

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Today fashion often symbolizes modern consume. This essay asks the question, which relations between fashion and consume exist in fact. The author points out similarities in the structure of fashion and addiction. ›Fashion victims‹ can easily be converted in addicts of consume. But fashion also implies and confirms aspects of freedom: being an institution, that encourages the discussion about the conception of beauty and aesthetic judgement and as Georg Simmel showed, that needs and supports conditions of a free culture and society. Finally the author shows how excessive consume can even destroy fashion. The article also discusses in which way the empowerment of things by modern habits of consume changes the common conception of beauty in daily life.

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Leutner, Petra: Leere der Sehnsucht: die Mode und das Regiment der Dinge. In: IMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft, Jg. 4 (2008), Nr. 2, S. 72-83. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16633.
@ARTICLE{Leutner2008,
 author = {Leutner, Petra},
 title = {Leere der Sehnsucht: die Mode und das Regiment der Dinge},
 year = 2008,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16633}",
 volume = 4,
 address = {Köln},
 journal = {IMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft},
 number = 2,
 pages = {72--83},
}
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