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Fashion, or the enchanting spectacles of the code?

Fashion or the enchanting spectacles of the code - Jean Baudrillard

2 quotes from the text with an image which relates

 - "THIS FLOTATION IN THE ECONOMIC ORDER IS RECENT: IT REQUIRES THAT 'PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION' BE EVERYWHERE FINISHED, THAT AN ENTIRE CYCLE OF DEAD LABOUR BE COMPLETED." (pg. 467)

Website - https://jcsr.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40991-016-0004-6 - 18/10/17 

 I have chosen this pyramid as it relates to social conformities - looking at fashion in society and its economy sector it just fits in fine. As shows there are responsibilities for us citizen - ethical and legal ones which are at the top of the pyramid and also important as a base of our society there are the economic responsibilities. Without those we could not be able to afford even making garments for the society and if the pyramid would not work between us then there could not be a market for fashion. It all comes together and sits in place if we work together in economy and society to make a living on planet earth that is bearable.

 - "PAYING TRIBUTE TO IT, HE FINDS SALVATION IN FASHION" (pg. 468)

Website - http://zuill.us/andreablog/2011/02/20/salvation-mountain/ - 18/10/17

I have clearly chosen this image straight to its name. The salvation mountain is a place in California's desert.

It is a place created by an artist called Leonard Clark Knight who wants people to merge together here - the Love sign I find truly beautiful.
I chose this image as it goes hand in hand with the fashion world which should merge together more for example within gender fluidity and should be salvation for people who can therefore identify themselves through style and the society around them.


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Another text within the field of postmodernism



For some reason summon does not work - I will try to get it working 

There is an article I could find though online - it is published with not just a label and deals with designers such as Commercial de Garcons or Vivienne Westwood who used postmodernism in their work within silhouette especially. They are visually arguing how the body of a human can even if biologically feminine or masculine can be deformed through clothing.
Postmodernity changed the hierarchy in fashion like shown in the pyramid above.

Bauddrillard is arguing with the same aspect in his section 'sex refashioned' - he states that the body becomes the medium of fashion and it plays with dress through its form. The body has strong sexual potential he says but is struggling with the liberation. 

Website- https://www.notjustalabel.com/editorial/postmodernism-and-fashion - 17/10/17

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