Critical Review
Fashion and the study of fashion has been intensified interest over the last thirty years since it first beginning in the fifteenth century. It is also; Malcolm Barnard shared his idea in the essay survey and contextualization, Fashion Statements: Communication and Culture. This essay has aimed to give a natural definition of fashion statements. Therefore, the author has had to investigate meaning and communication and explain what sort of meaning it might be that fashion has and what sort of communication it can be that fashion accomplishes. The author does give several of examples to prove his arguments and views of the essay. Readers were asked to go deep into the case with some case studies. Nevertheless, the author way of conveying takes further way for him to get the aim which cause confusion in some cases.
Fashion, the idea that what people wear may or may not be the current or latest style, is clearly understood in modern and western cultures. Also, modern western people are familiar with the idea that the clothes they and others wear are meaningful. However, while the conception of fashion as a temporal sequence of ‘looks’ or styles that is taken for granted by certain cultures may be relatively uncontroversial, the conceptions of meaning and communication that are presupposed in the notion that fashion or clothing are meaningful or communicative phenomena certainly are not. The essay will try to define and explain the nature of fashion statements. In order to do these things, the rest of the essay will be divided into four sections.
The first section will outline a brief definition and explanation of fashion. Barnard argues that fashion is meaningful, and that it is therefore about communication. This is because saying that fashion is meaningful is to say that fashion is a cultural phenomenon. Given this, Barnard says that differently cultured bodies communicate different things (meanings) by the different things (clothes, fashion) that...
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