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22 - Fashion in Capitalism

Another Modernity, 1800 to the Present

from Part IV - Fashion, Modernism, and Modernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2023

By
Ulrich Lehmann
Edited by
Christopher Breward ,
Beverly Lemire  and
Giorgio Riello
Christopher Breward
Affiliation:
National Museums Scotland
Beverly Lemire
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
Giorgio Riello
Affiliation:
European University Institute, Florence
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Summary

Whereas textiles, cloth, garments, and dress are seen as anthropological, supra-historical terms for concrete material covers of the human body, the more abstract term ‘fashion’ is defined in economic terms through its central place within the capitalist mode of production. This definition emerges from a historically and geographically particular nexus within Western industrialization and expands to fashion’s constituent role in capitalist socio-economic systems wherein social relations are based on commodities for exchange, private ownership of the means of production, and the exploitation of wage labour. Enshrined in bourgeois ideologies, capitalism has been flaunted, at least since the eighteenth century in the globalized North, as the dominant socio-economic form of production, established within a monetary system, and exported through colonialism and imperialism across the world.1

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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
From the Nineteenth Century to the Present
 , pp. 766 - 800
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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