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Gaze &Fashion
1.Why we love to gaze and be gazed ?2.Why women tend to be gazed ?
Study Question:YouLookGORGEOUSToday!
Mirror Stage
Q: How we identify ourselves with ourselves?
Ans: To recognize ourselves, we have to internalize the gaze from the field of the other.
The power of gaze
•Primary Narcissism: love to be gazed• Loss of Autonomy: fear to
be gazed
The Masculine Renunciation Nowadays Phenomenon: Female dresses is more ornamental than
the male ones.Time: Industrial Revolution in 18th centuryBefore 18th century: Sartorial ExtravaganceAfter 18th century: Sartorial Sobriety
WHY?
Social Perspective: wife’s responsibilityPsychological Perspective: inhibit the narcissistic and exhibitionistic desires1. sublimation into professional ‘showing off’ 2.reversal into scopophilia3.male identification with woman-as-spectacle
The Male Gaze• Voyeurism vs. Exhibitionism• scopophilia + women-as-spectacle =
the male gaze• Result: Women’s self-awareness is
disciplined by the male gaze.
ConclusionFinding: Women are not born to be gazed
at and men are not born to gaze others, either.
Problem: Males can’t adorn themselves Female can’t gaze at the maleSolution: This restriction is little by little
loose in pop-music.