“Fashion not only confirms and economically functionalizes the division of gender and class; it constructs and subverts them by stripping them bare – if this clothing metaphor is allowed here – and reveals them as an effect of construction.” Barbara Vinken in Fashion Zeitgeist: Trends and Cycles in the Fashion System, trans. M. Hewson (Oxford: Berg, 2005), 4.

 

For further reading, please also check Joanne Entwistle’s The fashioned body : fashion, dress and modern social theory (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000). Please see below for a short clip that was broadcasted on German television in Die Sendung mit der Maus (English: The Program with the Mouse).