CHAPTER 1
-eurocentrism
-assumptions that fashion exists only in the West and starts from a cretain period of time
-globalization helped to put the light on fashion outside the West
-fashion codes found in other culuture and areas - changing styles n elite
CHAPTER 2
- variety of terms that are link to different eras, places and ways to see/describe fashion.
- evolved a lot, there was a need to dig deeper into meanings and use the right words
-essential to understand fashion and all the differences
CHAPTER 3
-fashion theory definite system where we social darwinism/ evolutionary theory helps to understand better how it works
-fashion is flowing through
-form of language, cyclic, different theories to explain of it works in society
CHAPTER 4
-talks about how fashion is treated as a subject
-eurocentrism in fashion studies can be explained because of the influence of religion, social status, how non-western were perceived and documented f.e
-fashion studies spread through documentation on diff. levels, exhibitions, researches, books, technology (f.e photography)
-new elements taken into account when doing analysis/researches f.e "understanding previously marginalized groups [...] effect of economic power..."
-evolution of fashion studies through anthropology, semiotics, acknowledging it and its changes