Fashion is a system of signs that is negotiated collectively and individually on the terrain of self-presentation. Fashion is one of the premises that enable us to form part of society, to be recognised and accepted. Fashion, furthermore, is a social practice that also takes on a political significance, as it not only bears witness to, but can support processes of social democratisation or strengthen class division and generational segregation. On the social plane fashion is born as a filter between the natural state of the body and its "civilisation" (Amsterdamski 1980) and socialisation.
Fortunati 2005.
