Sunday, February 28, 2010
Long Live McQueen
Kawamura's chapter "Fashion as an Institutionalized System" discusses the hierarchical structure that forms in the institutionalized system of fashion. This hierarchy is created by adding "social, economic, cultural and symbolic capital" to clothes, creating elite and luxury clothes.So what gives a fashion designer an "enduring reputation"? According to Kawamura, the designer can't have just