Cultural Identity And Social Relationship Between Fashion And Fashion

Culture and fashion – Personal identity may be at times replaced by cultural identity, as every person belongs to a specific culture and has the right to reveal it. Cultural identity can be defined as the type of identity that is related to a certain culture or a separate social group. It brings people belonging to a culture definite highlighting differences with other people. Clothing in terms of culture is to reveal either the historical roots of a person or the roots the group he belongs to. The oriental-followers are easily defined from the crowd by the specific collars and style of dressing they hold on to. Demonstrating a belonging to a certain cultural community is the free right of every person like people that freely declare who they

The phenomenon of fashion, the impact of which is recognized by the famous cliché: ―You are what you wear‖, offers a dense, rich set of costume options and reveals multiple and unexpected ways through which fashion is part of the concrete, tangible, profound, complicated and symbolic process of forming of the modern and postmodern Self, identity, body and social relations. The development of gender identity is a social construct with garment and fashion being two factors of this configuration. Even fashion should be considered as part of the social processes of discrimination, namely the reproduction of hierarchy’s position and prestige in a deeply unequal

(Semiotics is the general theory of signs and symbols). Language can be broadly defined as a system of communication. He believed that, most of the signs are mediated by language, but for non-linguistic signs, e.g.: fashion, he has to draw meaning through linguistic signs e.g.: fashion magazines. He applies the same theory to that of the dress and the art of dressing. He says that dress is the system of shared meaning evoked by elements of clothing, whereas dressing consists of the actual act of putting on specific clothing. The distinction between the two acknowledges that both mutually affect each other. He has written many essays which circle around fashion. In his later works, The Fashion System (book, 1990) he analyses fashion in a written manner. He tries to derive the linguistic meaning of fashion as he believes that the meaning of fashion is not well supported since it only derives meaning through the already constructed inscription of fashion. He tries to imply that fashion means the culmination of the written garment, the real garment and the image of the