The sort of people who ought to be professionally protecting real quality and fostering genuine individuality — not just the image of these, or the toy-town versions that advertising fools about with — seem ever more inclined to present thoughts, facts, and values, and human beings, too, simply as fashionable commodities, much like the season's new hats of old.
As has been found in other studies, [ 2, 17, 38] fashionable commodities were crucial to young women's social identities in the study community.
Chris Anderson, a former writer on this newspaper and now the boss of 3D Robotics, which makes drones, says they supply that fashionable commodity, big data, to fields where it is otherwise hard to come by, such as agriculture.
Happiness has never been a fashionable commodity in rock, but this bunch, like the Spree and Flaming Lips before them, go some way towards reclaiming it as a viable emotion.
More conventionally Surrealistic but with a bit of Pop is the work of Nazareth Pacheco, who makes dangerous-looking luxury commodities, like fashionable dresses of beads and razors and a child's swing that sprouts nails from its clear plastic seat.
Its stock ballooned when commodity speculation became fashionable, then sank last year, to about $2 from about $50, as the thrill wore off.
What he is marketing, in effect, is creative talent--a commodity that has become increasingly fashionable among the world's cultural and business elites.
Similarly, fashionable trends greatly influence the demand for marine commodities: the movie "Finding Nemo" significantly increased the demand for both saltwater aquariums and clownfishes.
In this poverty-stricken community, factors that created a high demand for transactional sex among young women included the pursuit of fashionable images, popular culture, the increased availability of commodities, widespread use of global technologies, poverty and wealth inequalities.
And commodity exports have not always been fashionable.
Like Professors Rouwenhorst and Gorton, he dug into commodity returns before the asset class was fashionable.
