Fashion as a source of suffering. Ethical dimension of production and imaging Cover Image

Moda jako źródło cierpień: etyczny wymiar produkcji i obrazowania
Fashion as a source of suffering. Ethical dimension of production and imaging

Author(s): Paula Milczarczyk
Subject(s): Anthropology, Visual Arts, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Social development, Management and complex organizations, Studies in violence and power, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Sociology of Politics, Globalization
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; fashion; ethics; fashion industry; slow‐fashion; visual culture

Summary/Abstract: Fashion, both in its manufacturing dimension and as a field of visual culture, remains morally involved. The article is an attempt to incorporate phenomena related to fashion in an ethical perspective. The first part of the article focuses on mass production practices: such as shipping, greenwashing, fur farm industry, or the negative environmental impact associated with production. The second part of the article is devoted to the practices related to the culture-producing dimension of fashion, as well as the total aesthetization of everyday life (and the resulting anesthetization), the falsification and the simularization of reality or fashion projects based on the use of motives rooted in culture or religion.

  • Issue Year: 52/2017
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 56-65
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish