http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Banner_686X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner_234X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250 http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo-Watermark_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner-ALT_234X60.jpg Bigthink - Idea Comments Feed Bigthink http://www.bigthink.com/feed/rss/comment/idea/6742 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:31:58 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Comment on: Re: What is the role of fashion in society? http://www.bigthink.com/arts-culture/architecture-design/6742 How is fashion an historical "marker" if the designers' goal is to "create something timeless"?<br /><br />I guess a corollary here is "the failure of the fashion industry to create a timeless style has left us with periodic markers of this failure, which may or may not have social and political parallels"(i.e. hemline length vis-a-vis economic conditions) Bigthink Sun, 11 May 2008 20:35:55 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/arts-culture/architecture-design/6742/#16868