Female Identity and Construction in Fashion—Based on Simmel’s fashion philosophy

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10.2991/assehr.k.201215.437How to use a DOI?

Keywords

fashion, Simmel, women, cultural dilemma

Abstract

Simmel stated in The Philosophy of Fashion that fashion exists in the tension of difference and integration. As a product of class differentiation, fashion not only separates different groups, but also recognizes the same groups. Women are imprisoned by fixed symbolic boundaries and cultural dilemmas. On the one hand, fashion provides them with an established model for gaining a sense of identity, on the other hand, fashion also provides women with a platform to express their individuality. Therefore, women use to play a very active role in fashion. Until the advent of modern society, the traditional barrier between men and women gradually melted due to the compensation function fashion brought. Women’s imitation of male objective culture became a necessary phase for creating female objective culture and they sensitive and fulfilled soul is necessary impetus for female objective culture. In this sense, fashion may also become women’s fashion after women get rid of cultural dilemma.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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