One of my favorite essays that I have written — A Debordian and Baudrillardian reading of fashion as we know it today, written under the instruction of the amazing Eugene Rabkin.
This is a longer work—just over 20 pages—so I am including a link to a public copy below. This is one of my favorite papers, so if I may be humble, it is worth a read.
The TL;DR of the paper is a commentary on the tired repetition of fashion today. This can be filtered through theorists such as the postmodernist Jean Baudrillard and the Marxist Guy Debord—two scholars I was introduced to during my first semester at Parsons. I anchor my argument in historicity, tracing fashion theory through the 20th century and considering the September 11th attacks and COVID-19 as impetuses for fashion's descent into hyperreality.
This work is meant to be accessible and understandable to those with no former contact with Debord/Baudrillard or fashion theory, yet interesting and critical enough for those who do to engage with and enjoy the content.
