Fashion/Design Signalling Systems--how status, power, wealth, taste, sophistication, uniqueness, imagination, worldliness, etherality get signaled

Why Luxury brands aim non-core sectors?

by Alvaro HIDALGO

Extension of Luxury brands to Tourism facilities Extension of Luxury brands to Tourism facilities

Figments for sale: marketing, imagination and the artistic imperative

by Anthony Patterson

Creating sustainable identities: the significance of the financially affluent self

by Victoria Hurth

Averting catastrophic climate change: confronting wealth

by Victoria Hurth

Acquired Taste

by Kevin Melchionne

Contemporary Aesthetics, Vol 5 (2007), http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=485

Describes acquired taste as a form of self-deception with potentially happy consequences. Discusses the ways acquired... more Describes acquired taste as a form of self-deception with potentially happy consequences. Discusses the ways acquired taste can also distort aesthetic life.

Clothes Make the Person? Performing Gender Through Fashion

by Brett Lunceford

Lunceford, Brett. “Clothes Make the Person? Performing Gender Through Fashion.” Communication Teacher, 24, no. 2 (2010): 63-68.

Objectives: To help students: (1) think critically about how they perform gender through clothing choices; (2)... more Objectives: To help students: (1) think critically about how they perform gender through clothing choices; (2) recognize how different cultures define masculinity and femininity.
Courses: Communication Theory, Gender and Communication, Popular Communication, Rhetorical Theory, Visual Rhetoric