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Conference Paper: Fashion speaks through clashing masks: encoding fashionability in and through the Hong Kong Fashion Media
Title | Fashion speaks through clashing masks: encoding fashionability in and through the Hong Kong Fashion Media |
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Issue Date | 2015 |
Citation | The 1st Global Creative Industries Conference, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 18-19 April 2015. How to Cite? |
Abstract | Fashion plays a significant role in the global creative industries and in urban social space. In the realms of art, history and cultural studies, however, fashion is often regarded as a peripheral or even unorthodox topic. Hence, this study aimed at remapping the relationships among the interdisciplinary and conflicting notions of fashion, determining which and how fashion theories are applicable to the real fashion industry in a specific place at a particular time, apprehending the nuanced mechanisms involved, and seeking to create a substantial case for the social construction of fashion. The role of the print media in reporting local and worldwide fashion news in Hong Kong was investigated. An array of conflicting theoretical views towards fashion are first discerned.  The participant observations and responses excerpted from interviews and conversations are presented. Those data portray partly conflicting, partly consistent notions of fashion among those working in the fashion media. They will be discussed with reference to the diverse notions of fashion. The focus of the observations was: What shapes one’s current understanding of fashion? What fashion messages do fashion media intend to communicate? The responses surprisingly demonstrate the contradictory rules guiding how media people determine what is fashionable. Real cases happened tend to echo the critical perspectives, however, the encoding process also involved aesthetic and creative judgment and validated the pluralistic perspectives. In general the media personnel were not very powerful in encoding fashionability, yet it does not mean they could not influence the fashion meanings at all. |
Description | Conference Theme: From Culture to Business, and Vice Versa 會議主題:從文化到商業,從商業到文化 Parallel Session 5A: Localizing Creative Industries Research in Hong Kong |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/212402 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Tse, T | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-21T02:34:31Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-21T02:34:31Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 1st Global Creative Industries Conference, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 18-19 April 2015. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/212402 | - |
dc.description | Conference Theme: From Culture to Business, and Vice Versa | - |
dc.description | 會議主題:從文化到商業,從商業到文化 | - |
dc.description | Parallel Session 5A: Localizing Creative Industries Research in Hong Kong | - |
dc.description.abstract | Fashion plays a significant role in the global creative industries and in urban social space. In the realms of art, history and cultural studies, however, fashion is often regarded as a peripheral or even unorthodox topic. Hence, this study aimed at remapping the relationships among the interdisciplinary and conflicting notions of fashion, determining which and how fashion theories are applicable to the real fashion industry in a specific place at a particular time, apprehending the nuanced mechanisms involved, and seeking to create a substantial case for the social construction of fashion. The role of the print media in reporting local and worldwide fashion news in Hong Kong was investigated. An array of conflicting theoretical views towards fashion are first discerned.  The participant observations and responses excerpted from interviews and conversations are presented. Those data portray partly conflicting, partly consistent notions of fashion among those working in the fashion media. They will be discussed with reference to the diverse notions of fashion. The focus of the observations was: What shapes one’s current understanding of fashion? What fashion messages do fashion media intend to communicate? The responses surprisingly demonstrate the contradictory rules guiding how media people determine what is fashionable. Real cases happened tend to echo the critical perspectives, however, the encoding process also involved aesthetic and creative judgment and validated the pluralistic perspectives. In general the media personnel were not very powerful in encoding fashionability, yet it does not mean they could not influence the fashion meanings at all. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Global Creative Industries Conference, The University of Hong Kong | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | 第一屆全球創意產業研討會 | - |
dc.title | Fashion speaks through clashing masks: encoding fashionability in and through the Hong Kong Fashion Media | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Tse, T: tommyt@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Tse, T=rp01911 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 245217 | - |