Fashion and degrowth: contradiction? Exploring interpretations and functions of fashion

Anikó Gál, Anikó Gál and Anikó Gál

Chapter Chapter 10 in Dialogues for Degrowth, 2025, pp 130-139 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: How can fashion interact with the ideas of degrowth? At first thought, fashion is often associated with the superficiality of appearance and dismissed as a shallow pursuit centred around vanity and the accumulation of material possessions. Degrowth, on the other side, is about seeking for the good life with less, which can be seen as a contradiction with fashion. This chapter aims to ease this apparent conflict and to explore ideas about how fashion could contribute to social change. After describing the relationship between fashion and the economic system, including the concept of “defashion” (Niessen, 2022), I investigate interdisciplinary reflections about the origins and functions of fashion as an everyday phenomenon, outside the domain of consumption. The second part of the chapter focuses on points of convergence between fashion, aesthetics and degrowth, with the aim of advocating space for beauty in the project of degrowth.

Keywords: Fashion; Defashion; Consumption; Aesthetics; Everydayness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035320769
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