METAPHYSICS of FASHION

Fashion is a challenging issue. It can be intuitively understood as a phenomenon that collects different ways of being and pertains to several domains of social life. The essay aims to scrutinize the processual ground of fashion through the lenses of systemic thinking arguing that 1) fashion is systemic at heart and 2) several aspects of this multifaceted phenomenon – style elegance and trends among others – result from the intricacy of multiple interactions. The continuous relationship between the wearer clothes and the environment gives rise to a powerful temporal texture of garments for either the past (the vintage) or the forecasting attitude of the textile items. «Fisogni's metaphysical concept in an essay as beautiful as rare in its comparative and synergistic reasoning is a metaphor – Marina Nelli writes - It is not the abstract beyond of a concrete discipline but is the profound observation and acquisition of knowledge of the principles and phenomena that establish life and experiences».