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Lois Long's "Feminine Fashions" explores the emergence of a distinct Hollywood style in the thirties, while Kennedy Fraser's "The Fashionable Mind" examines the influence of fashion and consumerism on self-expression.
Fashions, quite simply, do not exist until a fashionable mind is turned on them.
The best fashion shows offer up a tantalizing glimpse of a fashionable mind — like a slightly sinister conjurer's trick, this vision is terribly alive and just out of reach.
The part that commerce plays in fashion is something we are often led to overlook, for the fashionable mind is well practiced in masking a general allegiance to commerce and the status quo behind what seems to an outsider to be an appealingly individualistic enthusiasm for some peculiar novelty.
"Clothes have a life that is quite independent of their shape and color," Fraser wrote in her second column, which was collected — along with the best of her fashion commentary — in her first book, now woefully out of print, "The Fashionable Mind".
"A fashionable mind is a utopian one — forceful, sweeping, and imaginative to the point of delusion".
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By Kennedy Fraser Many societies have been openly dominated by fashionable people, but our society is quietly permitting itself to be dominated and transformed by fashionable minds.
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