Tuesday, August 7, 2012

IV. Consumption


Above left an advertisement for Comme de Garcons and above right fine art by Nigel Tomm, both created in the same year. The two materials prompt a consideration of the means, context and message of media that is commercial or non-commercial.



Above and below by Jean-François Campos, Vogue India 2008 and Marie Claire France, November 2009. What are the ethics of desire and consumption in fashion media? What is being sold? To whom is it being sold? Is it offered in a world with access to the goods?



Philosophy & Desire




Above and below false perfume advertisements created as an editorial on greed.





Above and below the continuation of ideals such as the American dream in fashion media.








Above and below the representation of excessive consumption in fashion media.






Above and below the combination of several forms of consumption: food, luxury, fashion and sexual






While the notion refers to displaying a process of production (rather an acquisition) we can turn to fashion media and potentiality of representing a process of production in the editorial below.








The representation of the body in fashion media prompts a consideration of the origin in desire the overdetermination of the fashion media, as well as the possibility for transformation of norms.




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