I have been thinking about how this thing comes from, is it innate or nurtured? For example, when we see a beautiful woman, do we think she is a beautiful woman at first sight, or do we think that she is a beautiful woman after countless subtleties, such as big eyes, long eyelashes, sharp chin and so on. The same is true for clothes. What kind of clothes are considered good-looking, what kind of clothes are suitable for you to wear, why do lace represent ladies and denim, and also represent candidness, and who stipulates these things?
The original fashion idiot Andy accidentally got a job as assistant editor-in-chief of a great fashion magazine. This is a job that coexists with beauty and hardship. After being scolded by Boss several times, Andy resolutely decided to change herself and put on the fashionable and beautiful clothes she originally disdained. After that, her whole world turned upside down, her colleagues and Boss's eyes changed, her boyfriend was also amazed, and the rate of turning back on the road was also high. He was even approached by a writer he once admired at a party. Everything is as wonderful as Cinderella's fairy tale (Cinderella also wears beautiful clothes before the prince falls in love with her), Andy is also quickly appreciated by the Boss and is about to be promoted. But, what's wrong? Andy, ask yourself, your original ideal is not to do this, you just want to hang out with Boss, you can accumulate more contacts, and then jump to the current affairs big newspaper. Where is the problem?
Andy was chatting with her friends, and friend A said that fashion was nothing more than a marker of social class. It's not so superficial, Andy said. This may be due to the different perspectives of people inside and outside the door. If Andy hadn't turned into a fashion assistant, she should have supported her friend's point of view. Later, her work got busier and busier, which seriously threatened her life. She said to her boyfriend, I am still the same as before, same person, better clothes. But she still changed. Clothes can really change a person. She also had to rob a colleague of the opportunity to go to Paris Fashion Week. The colleague told her bitterly that when you put on Jimmy Choo for the first time, your soul was betrayed. Those bright luxury goods are really more than shoes, bags, and beautiful clothes.
It seems that Baudrillard said that Marx's theory of commodity value should be rewritten. In addition to use value and exchange value, symbolic value should also be included. Among them, the value of commodities is mainly determined by the symbolic value, not the use value. The quality of those beautiful luxury goods is much better than that of ordinary goods, um, it will be a little better, at most hundreds of thousands, and it will not be so exaggerated. But it itself represents a kind of symbol, which has been accumulated for a long time, and it was given artificially but not deliberately and casually. Otherwise, how do you explain that people all over the street want to buy Apple, but a product that imitates Apple may not sell.
It seems that fashion itself does contain huge knowledge. In fact, it is not you who wear the clothes, but the clothes that wear you. There are too many imaginations, labels and tastes given to this magical dress. Marx also proposed a concept called alienation, which means that people are controlled by what they have created, so that they become inhuman. Lukács also came up with a concept called reification, which is familiar to us as commodity fetishism. These days, when we buy things, we don't look at the product, but just a feeling, right?
Andy finally came to his senses. It turned out to be in a different direction than originally expected. Even if there is a promotion, even if there are countless flashes and turning heads, what can be done, everything is a cloud. The writer he once admired was just a playboy who was good at picking up girls. Then, she resigned from her job resolutely, returned to her boyfriend, and became a current affairs reporter for the New York Mirror. She ended up changing into a jacket and denim. Not stunning, but beautiful. But there is also a paradox, the tone of this film is actually anti-fashion, or introspective fashion. But there should be many girls take it as a fashion textbook!
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