Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of fashion, this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values.

Traducere de Mihai Ungurean

The term a postmodernitya has been used to describe that historical transformation of the late 20th century when the institutional breaks holding back individual emancipation disintegrated, thereby giving rise to the full expression of individual desires and the quest for self--fulfilment.

* Lipovetsky is an important thinker in France and his ideas and responses to current intellectual debates surrounding modernity and postmodernity discussed in this book will travel well. * This book presents a highly original new way of thinking about modern society and the individual.