Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Dolfsma, W.A. Author-Name-Last: Dolfsma Author-Name-First: Wilfred Author-Person: pdo93 Title: Paradoxes of Modernist Consumption – Reading Fashions Abstract: Fashion is the quintessential post-modernist consumer practice, or so many hold. In this contribution, I argue that, on the contrary, fashion should be understood as a means of communicating one's commitment to modernist values. I introduce the framework of the Social Value Network, to relate such values to institutionalised consumption behaviour, allowing one to signal to others. Modernist values are not homogenous, and are in important ways contradictory, giving rise to the dynamics of fashion that can be observed. Creation-Date: 2004-06-23 File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/1330/ERS%202004%20035%20ORG.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Series: RePEc:ems:eureri Number: ERS-2004-035-ORG Classification-JEL: D12, L2, M, M10 Keywords: consumption, fashion, identity, modernism, symbolic goods Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:1330