Fashion Sense is designed to explode -fashion,- and with it, the stigma in philosophy against fashion-s superficiality. Fashion appears to be altogether differently occupied, disingenuous and insubstantial, even sophistic in its pretense to peddle surfaces as if they were something deep. But is fashion-s apparent beguilement more philosophical than it seems? And is philosophy-s longing for exposed depth concealing fashion in its anti-fashion stance? Using primarily ancient Greek texts, peppered with allusions to their echoes across the history of philosophy and contemporary fashion and pop culture, Gwenda-lin Grewal not only examines the rift between fashion and philosophy, but also challenges the claim that fashion is modern. Indeed, fashion-s quarrel with philosophy may be at least as ancient as that infamous quarrel between philosophy and poetry alluded to in Plato-s Republic. And the quest for fashion-s origins, as if a quest for a neutrally-outfitted self, stripped
