The birth of fashion as complex phenomenon: Aesthetic rereading of Frederick Charles Worth’s practice
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09571558241301320" target="_blank" >10.1177/09571558241301320</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The birth of fashion as complex phenomenon: Aesthetic rereading of Frederick Charles Worth’s practice
Original language description
Frederick Charles Worth (1825-1895) is consensually regarded as a founder of haute couture. Hisbusiness was accompanied by unprecedented marketing strategies. These strategies included alsothe person of dressmaker in order to change his social status. In accordance with this, dressmakingis no longer just a craft; it has begun to aspire to the position of art. This article wants to show thatthe process of establishing "the field of haute couture" (Bourdieu) cannot be described only insociological terms but contains a substantial aesthetic dimension. Our analysis of Worth's socialpractices reveals a series of dialectical relations that constitute objects of fashion as such. Thenew institutional framework of haute couture inevitably accelerates changes in the material designof garments, which at the same time supports their moral obsolescence. In the second step, wediscuss Charles Baudelaire's attempt to characterize the nature of specifically modern art.Baudelaire's formulations emphasize a very similar dialectical structure of modern beauty, whichis constituted by its inclination to transience and decay. In this sense, Worth's innovative practiceitself produces the aesthetic quality of a single apparel. So, we can read Worth's haute couture asan instance of Baudelairian modern art.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60400 - Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
French Cultural Studies
ISSN
0957-1558
e-ISSN
1740-2352
Volume of the periodical
36
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3/2025
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
222-233
UT code for WoS article
001371469000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85211004602