模仿与区别:齐美尔的时尚思想

Imitate and Discriminate:The Fashion Theory of Georg Simmel

时尚是对一种特定范式的模仿,是与社会相符欲望的满足。时尚总是一个阶层的时尚,上层阶级通过时尚与下层阶级进行区别,当后者模仿了某种时尚前者会很快抛弃它,而这种游戏愉快地周而复始着。作为时尚研究的大师,齐美尔引导我们该如何看时尚,男性时尚与女性时尚有着哪些不同,又该如何解释经典时尚。

The article explores the fashion notions of German sociologist and social philosopher Georg Simmel. Fashions are always class fashions, by the fact that the fashions of the higher strata of society distinguish themselves from those of the lower strata, and are abandoned by the former at the moment when the latter begin to appropriate them. And thus the game goes merrily on. As a master, Simmel introduce us to explore these questions： the philosophical basis of fashion, the definition of fashion, the relationship between fashion and social class, the relationship between fashion and gender ,the notion of a classic and the limits to fashion.