Shahidha Bari | The Philosophy Of Fashion

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[@23rauloctubre]

'Surface' is charged with meaning. Great talk. Thank you!

[@dvacita4557]

This is fascinating!! Thank you for your work

[@seth4766]

she's so wow

[@bajajones5093]

The world needed this bull$$$$

[@daveneedham4443]

Looking at fashion from a philosophic perspective begins with 19th century Thomas Carlyle, in his Sartor Resartus (Tailor re-tailored). Skip ahead to Ernst Cassirer's 1929 three volume work, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, that sets up a study of Philosophy of Culture... that includes art, and fashion. Susanne Langer took Cassirer's ideas and wrote about the philosophy of fine art. We need a fashion professor, in the ideas of Cassirer, to write a a philosophy of fashion.

[@darnellrichier623]

I appreciate Bari' approach, as if does seem to be of crucial to individuals and society what we wear, how, who and wear we wear. And if some notion of superficiality guards us from that understanding screw it and soldier on. However, I would take a more pessimistic tac. Clothing is first and foremost a mask. A faithful mask and not, Which leaves us in the same position we were in a la Baudrillards "A System of Objects'. Namely the quaternal paradox: the faithful representation (of an image) and the unfaithful representation, the unfaithful mask over the faithful "reality and the faithful reality masking an unfaithful reality. This problem strikes through the heart of the problem: Why allow what Angela Merkel wears into any debate about her political or moral virtue? If the only point is a self-referential realization why not skip the morally tenuous necessity of fashionability in favour of a stoic attitude of reflexivity (reflective process). We are still charged with not allowing appearance to rule over our reason, no matter how problematic the latter may be. Pragmatically speaking of course we have to wear something, and for real reasons (protection etc.), it is only this obscuring nature which we should work against.

[@grantfell9245]

In a nutshell, people want, what people want.