Fashion / Sense av Dr Gwenda-lin Grewal

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<i>Fashion Sense </i>is designed to explode ¿fashion,¿ and with it, the stigma in philosophy against fashion¿s superficiality. Fashion appears to be altogether differently occupied, disingenuous and insubstantial, even sophistic in its pretense to peddle surfaces as if they were something deep. But is fashion¿s apparent beguilement more philosophical than it seems? And is philosophy¿s longing for exposed depth concealing fashion in its anti-fashion stance? Using primarily ancient Greek texts, peppered with allusions to their echoes across the history of philosophy and contemporary fashion and pop culture, Gwenda-lin Grewal not only examines the rift between fashion and philosophy, but also challenges the claim that fashion is modern. Indeed, fashion¿s quarrel with philosophy may be at least as ancient as that infamous quarrel between philosophy and poetry alluded to in Plato¿s <i>Republic</i>. And the quest for fashion¿s origins, as if a quest for a neutrally-outfitted self, stripped