Fashion and Anti-Fashion: A Dialectical Approach

Stefano Marino’s essay analyses the fashion-anti-fashion relationship where it is the dialectic method which enables the issue to be developed. In the case of the fashion-anti-fashion relationship this implies that both the former and the latter cannot be understood distinctly from one another. Using the concept of dialectic, deriving in particular from Hegel and Adorno, the essay then analyses the applicability of the Platonic model to the anti-fashion concept, as developed by Nickolas Pappas. And from this the analysis continues in the direction of connections between anti-fashion and 20th and 21st century counterculture movements and trends.