If you only wear name brand clothing or carry an expensive name brand purse, you are identifying yourself in relation to your clothes or purse.
"It wasn't me in the clothes, or just wearing them, that interested me," McCardell said, "it was the clothes in relation to me — how changed I felt once in them". McCardell's creations contained an alchemy that so many of us still seek: the ability to command the narrative of our own bodies, and to be seen not as mere eye candy but as a person to be reckoned with.
Safe is an interesting word in relation to Versace, a brand that finds commercial security in decidedly risqué clothes.
Such a fine show — in relation to the California teen scene looks from Saint Laurent and the powerful presentation but simple clothes from Chanel — raises important issues for current fashion.
Symbols such as cellular telephones, sunglasses and trendy clothes were important in overtly portraying economic status, and were used to position these men in relation to other men in the study context.
A few months later, George Osborne stole Labour's clothes by promising £9 and calling it the national living wage, even though it was not calculated in relation to living costs like the real, accredited voluntary living wage.
In relation to energy companies, Which?
In relation to interest rates?
