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Index
Cover
Editor's page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Who Cares about Fashion?
Being Fashionable and Being Cool
Fashion, Style, and Design
Fashion, Identity, and Freedom
Can We Be Ethical and Fashionable?
PART 1: BEING FASHIONABLE AND BEING COOL
CHAPTER 1: WHAT MAKES SOMETHING FASHIONABLE?
What Can Be Fashionable? From Pugs to Poodle Skirts
Do Masses Matter? Robinson Crusoe’s Runway
Do Experts Matter? Khaki Glory
Do Intentions Matter? Accidental Chic
Do Aesthetics Matter? Form Over Function
Does Identity Matter? Tribal Colors
Does Timing Matter? To Everything, There is a Season
Conclusion: What Matters?
CHAPTER 2: FASHION, ILLUSION, AND ALIENATION
What Is It To Be Fashionable?
Appearing Fashionable
Two Concepts of Fashion
Fashion and Alienation
The Metaphysics of Fashion
CHAPTER 3: TRYHARDS, FASHION VICTIMS, AND EFFORTLESS COOL
Being Fashionable
Tryhards and Fashion Victims
Effortless Cool
Self-effacing Goals
PART 2: FASHION, STYLE, AND DESIGN
CHAPTER 4: THE AESTHETICS OF DESIGN
Design as Problem-Solving or Design as Fashion?
The Rise of Design As a Profession: Is Design a Response to Consumerism?
Consumerism, Self-expression, and The “Invention” of Design
Consumerism Is Not Essential to Design
Were Neolithic Flint Tools Designed?
Can We Avoid Designing? – The Idea of “Useless Work”
The Function and Value of Fashion
CHAPTER 5: SHARE THE FANTASY
Chanel No. 5 and Perfume Fashions
Coco Mademoiselle Ads
Male Perfume Ads
Celebrity Perfumes by Women of Color
Perfume Aesthetics, Erotics, and Ethics
Resisting the Fantasy: Erotics and Commodity Fetishism
CHAPTER 6: COMPUTATIONAL COUTURE
The Fashion
Cyborgs and Supermodels
PART 3: FASHION, IDENTITY, AND FREEDOM
CHAPTER 7: WEARING YOUR VALUES ON YOUR SLEEVE
CHAPTER 8: FASHION AND SEXUAL IDENTITY, OR WHY RECOGNITION MATTERS
The Sexual Citizen, Rights to Recognition, and Visibility as a Strategy
CHAPTER 9: SLAVES TO FASHION?
Objectification
Physical Bonds?
Moral Bonds?
Epistemological Bonds?
The Upshot
CHAPTER 10: FASHION DOLLS AND FEMINISM
What Is Paradigmatic Barbie Doll Play?
Barbie’s Influence in Cultural Context
What Should Feminists Make of Barbie?
Reinventing Barbie Play
PART 4: CAN WE BE ETHICAL AND FASHIONABLE?
CHAPTER 11: SWEATSHOPS AND CYNICISM
The Sweated Worker
The Inevitability Argument
Justifying the Conditions
Sweating Women
Cynical Choices
CHAPTER 12: WOMEN SHOPPING AND WOMEN SWEATSHOPPING
To Shop or Not to Shop? That is The Question
Do Prestigious, Ivy League, Male Philosophers Ever Think About Clothes? Yes! (Well, Sort Of)
Individual Responsibility Only Seems to Fit In Extra Small
Are Americans Boorish Butterflies?
Am I Responsible for The Suffering of The World’s Poor?
CHAPTER 13: A TASTE FOR FASHION
Philosophers’ Denigration of Fashion
Taste and Style
Genius
Love of Beauty as A Moral (Or Proto-moral) Motive
Conclusion
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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