LIQUID FASHION: ‘NOT JUST FOR FASHION VIEWERS FOR FASHION READERS’
WITHOUT BEING ESSENTIALIST, creating an inspirational set of grand narratives providing fundamental insights into core process. The corpus of ideas constitutes a shared framework of interlocking concepts, which can be recast like lego blocks, to many ends, in different contexts, without loosing logical consistency or explanatory power. Zygmunt Bauman was not a theorist of fashion, but using his versatile analytic tools, he could easily identify a characteristic mechanism of fashion activity. Bauman in 2000, the transition between solid and liquid modernity, as well as the fundamental pendulum swing between the contradictory forces of security and freedom. Sociologists of fashion have … Continue reading LIQUID FASHION: ‘NOT JUST FOR FASHION VIEWERS FOR FASHION READERS’