How Does Fashion Affect People's Identity

Fashion (is) a key resource through which individuals in late modernity construct their identities and position themselves in relation to others. Bennett, A.( 2005). Culture and Everyday Life. London Sage. p. 115. Discuss this statement with reference to individual examples. This essay will explore the importance of fashion, and how style is used to construct identities of individuals in particular those who followed the New Romantic movement of the late Seventies through to the early Eighties A movement of posers, who cared for dressing up in their flamboyant finery, experimenting with gender sterotyps and being as unique as possible at the start of a new, emerging London nightlife with the pioneering music of the time. It will discuss how
In conclusion, fashion is a important and very key resource which is used to construct identity with great ease In everyday speech... we speak of body that is subject to the clothes that literally en-clothe it with significance. (Gill, 1998). However there are other resources which can both be controlled and uncontrolled to help and aid in these constructions of identity. Closely linked with fashion is obviously the music in which individuals listen to, they both interlink and influence the other. The subculture and activities in which individuals wish to partake in also helps to in this building up. The media is a great factor which also must be considered media effects societys way of life and thinking if the media portray a negative image of a style-tribe or an identity then this is how the public will view the individuals. To construct a chosen identity all these factors must be taken into account by the individual. Bibliography Aspects of Fashion in Popular Culture (2006) available at HYPERLINK https//pantherfile.unm.edu/wash/www/poplecfashion.htm https//pantherfile.unm.edu/wash/www/poplecfashion.htm (accessed 06/02/13) Bennett, A. (2005)
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