Mass Fashion
This invention helped speed up textile production and reduce labor time.
What is the sewing machine / spinning jenny / power loom?
This event every first Monday of May is known for celebrities wearing extreme, controversial, or viral fashion looks each year.
What is the Met Gala?
This NYC-based event happens twice a year and is often debated in your class as possibly “dead.”
What is New York Fashion Week (NYFW)?
Fashion requires this system to exist, according to Marx.
What is capitalism?
This method involves studying people through observation and interaction.
What is ethnography?
If clothes become cheaper, what is most likely being reduced behind the scenes?
What is labor cost / worker wages?
This celebrity wore a meat dress to the VMAs.
Who is Lady Gaga?
This period marked the shift from home-based clothing production to factories.
What is the Industrial Revolution (18th–19th century)?
This theory describes elites innovating and lower classes imitating.
What is trickle-down theory?
Woodward studied clothing by observing this personal space.
What is the closet?
Thanhauser describes clothing becoming this instead of a cultural object.
What is a commodity?
This designer blurred streetwear and luxury at Louis Vuitton.
Who is Virgil Abloh?
Fashion tied to Instagram culture—constant newness, overproduction, and trend cycles—is an extension of this system.
What is mass fashion / fast fashion culture?
Marx’s concept: we see the product, not the labor behind it.
What is commodity fetishism?
Clothing worn regularly falls into this category.
What is active clothing?
This term describes unseen workers behind cheap garments.
What is invisible labor?
This celebrity wore Marilyn Monroe’s original “Happy Birthday Mr. President” dress to the Met Gala, sparking major debate.
Who is Kim Kardashian?
Who is Kim Kardashian?
This sociologist introduced the concept of “cultural capital.”
Who is Pierre Bourdieu?
Fashion depends on this condition to keep trends changing.
What is class instability / competition?
Clothing imagined for future use is called this.
What is potential clothing?
Mass fashion = invisible labor + mechanical production + this third element.
What is fast trend cycles?
This artist attended the Met Gala dressed as Karl Lagerfeld’s cat, referencing the theme.
Who is Doja Cat?
This theorist argued that fashion allows people to express individuality while still conforming to social norms.
Who is Georg Simmel?
Fashion is not just aesthetic—it is this broader system.
What is a political economy?
This assignment involves studying yourself or someone else’s dress practices.
What is sartorial biography / autoethnography?