Word: delimitation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fashion shows delimit a small slice of cultural space that a designer can claim and redress as personal property. The fashion press gives the designer title to the territory, and the store buyers advance the loan. Everyone, of course, is staking out real estate in the ozone. Fashion is an arbitrary and slightly irrational concept that needs all the buttressing it can get. Fashion shows not only describe a look, they perpetuate a myth and keep a fantasy airborne. A designer has to be dead sure of himself and certain of his reputation, like Armani, to take the radical step...
...Nature and other texts are replete with the political and social consequences of sociobiological theory. To call the link between sociobiology and reactionary political ideas (such as sexism) a fabrication, as Mr. Tooby does, is to ignore the proliferation of books and articles by leading sociobiologists which attempt to delimit possible forms of social organization...