Fashion and Philosophy
June 2, 2007
After reading Lars Svendsen’s excellent book on boredom, I decided to give his Fashion, A Philosophy ISBN 1861892918 a read. Fashion is about presenting the new to outmode the previous. This book is a critical examination of fashion, but does not do much in the way of original thought. While philosophers have not said much about fashion, some social commentators have, and this is whence the material comes. The author’s main contribution is to suggest that since about 1950 the logic of fashion has changed from one of replacement to one of supplementation.
