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Are there any GREAT books on fashion? With a mix of philosophy? Philosophy of Fashion?

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>> No.6435341

The Picture of Dorian Gray seems to be what you're looking for

>> No.6435390

>>6435341
Are u serious or u just being witty?

>> No.6435424

>>6435330
So how bad did it hurt when your boyfriend stuck his dick in your ass?

>> No.6435433

>>6435330
>be born as good looking and talented as brando
>profit

>> No.6435436

American Psycho is mostly (by wordcount) about fashion and fashionable things

>> No.6435444

Anything by William Gibson will have more descriptions of clothing than footnotes in Infinite Jest.

>>6435424
>hurt
>not immense pleasure.

>> No.6435486

>>6435330
Philosophy of fashion? Go with Bourdieu or Simmel

>> No.6435488

>>6435330
Nah dude, philosophy tackles serious issues like the nature of mind and formal logic.

>> No.6435492

>>6435330
Georg Simmel - Philosophie der Mode

>> No.6435519

I would recommend À rebours by Huysmans, Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal also talks about fashion in some length, I seem to remember.
Then there's a "guide" to courtesy and fashion by some Italian nobleman whose name I cannot seem to recall at the moment, I'm afraid.
Maybe some other Anon knows who I am talking about.
Of course, American Psycho is more about fashion than it is about murder, really, but there's nothing philosophical about it. It's extravagance and opulence made satirical, that's all. Quite interesting, I think, but probably not what you had in mind.

>> No.6435529

>>6435330
Merkin Saiko

>> No.6435607

Fashion under Fascism is an interesting read.

>> No.6435628

you'll probably realize you aren't actually interested about halfway through any book about that

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>>6435436
Surprisingly most of the brands mentioned in it still hold up as being fashionable today
>pic unrelated

>> No.6435738

>>6435672
Well, Church's, Brooks Brothers, Valentino, Cartier and the like have survived for decades if not centuries, I don't see a reason why that would change rapidly in the last 20 years or so.

>> No.6435806

>>6435672
lol, a lot of the stuff he mentions was recognizably tacky even at the time it was written

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>>6435330
get the book that accompanies the current Alexander McQueen exhibition at the V&A museum. i have practically zero interest in fashion and i still found it interesting.

>> No.6435999

>>6435806
isn't this the idea of the book? i read somewhere that many of the outfits he describes would actually be so conflicting and garish that nobody would actually wear them. it makes sense if you read the book as a satirical fantasy

>> No.6436051

Sartor Resartus

>> No.6436168

>>6435444
>immense pleasure.

not a mix of hurt , poo smellz and rubber odor in the air

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>>6435488
>formal logic
>a serious issue

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>>6436051

>> No.6437725

>>6435330

Barthes wrote a book on fashion.

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Read G. Bruce Boyer's work. All of it.

>> No.6437804

>>6435330
It's called copious consumption

>> No.6437812

>>6437804
Conspicous

>> No.6438652

>>6435330
>Are there any GREAT books on Yu-gi-oh? With a mix of philosophy? Philosophy of Yu-gi-oh?
>Are there any GREAT books on rimming? With a mix of philosophy? Philosophy of Rimming?

Can you imagine it.
>What does it mean to match your belt color to your shoe color? Scholars still debate the definition of 'matching'. Returning to the greeks, Plato had this to say about the nature of flannel shirts.

>> No.6438672

>>6438652
There's a whole lot of phenomena worth analysing, your teenage passtimes included.

>> No.6440084

>>6437784
His socks!

>> No.6441655

>>6438652
i saw a book on Black Sabbath and philosophy once. I don't think there is anything wrong with that sort of thing. it's like science or math, you can find it in anything, like baseball.

>> No.6441933

>>6435672
>tfw kawaii boi >>>>> white bois

>> No.6442018

>>6441655
Was it one of those shitty "X and philosophy" books or was it a real book? Im kinda interested, Geezer wrote some great lyrics over the years.

>> No.6442257

>>6436051
came here to post this

>> No.6442259

The Fashion System
The Language of Fashion

>> No.6442263

i asked this question a few months ago and got told that philosophers would never assign value to material things because that's not what philosophy is about or some shit. i'm not sure how to take the drastic change in the content of this nearly identical thread.

>> No.6442269

>>6442263
Aesthetic philosophy is still philosophy

>> No.6443271

>>6435519
I don't remember many things about fashion in Stendhal

>> No.6443307

>>6442263
like the other anon said, aesthetics is a major field of philosophy comparable to ethics, or philosophy of mind. most of the major philosophers have one way or another put forward their theories on this topic. it's one degree removed from fashion directly, but its still applicable