The Death of Fashion: The Passage Rite of Fashion in the Show Window

Harald Gründl

ISBN 10: 3211498540 / ISBN 13: 9783211498545

Published by Springer, 2007

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Verschmutzung / Wasserschaden; Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. When, for a few weeks each year, Western fashion victims become red-hot with excitement waiting for the fashion sales to take place, they are unconsciously following an ancient sacrificial ritual. Just as in ancient Greece, the God of Fertility had to be killed during the Dionysia in order to be resurrected, the season s fashion has today to be symbolically sacrificed in order for the shop windows to be filled with something new. Harald Gruendl, who with EOOS designs shopping temples for such as Armani and Adidas, here observes the death and resurrection of fashion in the shop windows of Paris, London, New York, Hamburg and Vienna at sales time. In his book he shows why archaic scenes of darkness, nakedness and chaos briefly dominate the shopping streets of the fashion metropolises, and why people buy (and have to).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Death of Fashion: The Passage Rite of Fashion in the Show Window
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3211498540
• ISBN 13: 9783211498545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

When, for a few weeks each year, Western fashion victims become red-hot with excitement waiting for the fashion sales to take place, they are unconsciously following an ancient sacrificial ritual. Just as in ancient Greece, the God of Fertility had to be killed during the Dionysia in order to be resurrected, the season s fashion has today to be symbolically sacrificed in order for the shop windows to be filled with something new. Harald Gruendl, who with EOOS designs shopping temples for such as Armani and Adidas, here observes the death and resurrection of fashion in the shop windows of Paris, London, New York, Hamburg and Vienna at sales time. In his book he shows why archaic scenes of darkness, nakedness and chaos briefly dominate the shopping streets of the fashion metropolises, and why people buy (and have to).

About the Author

Harald Grundl. Born in Vienna in 1967. Studied mechanical engineering, industrial design and philosophy. Founded the EOOS design office in 1995 together with Martin Bergmann and Gernot Bohmann, an office that has won numerous international awards and prizes.