Living against our skin for centuries, bearing witness to different times, cultures, and modernities, fashion lives with us, and it is an inescapable witness and essential anthropology. In a new column for Elephant magazine, Lucy Broome unpicks the epoch of fashion, exploring its diverse interchange with politics, arts and culture to reveal how fashion is both a mirror of our times, indeed at the very edge of aesthetic and material communication.
How does fashion and philosophy relate? Philosophy, the study of knowledge relative to existence, is often seen in stark opposition to the excessive material narratives of fashion, which are frequently deemed surface-level. Yet, can both intersect when considering their relevance to cultural and social phenomena?