Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campuses for more than a decade when, in the spring of 1985, growing numbers of students at Harvard and elsewhere became increasingly concerned about issues connected with South Africa. Many demonstrations during that spring, including a mass rally in Harvard Yard, expressed dissent on this issue in a legitimate fashion. The free exercise of the rights of dissent is explicitly protected by the Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities. Unhappily, two incidents in the late spring, at 17 Quincy Street on April 24 and at Lowell House on May 2, involved actions that apparently went beyond those protected rights...
Consider for example, the entire concept of style and fashion which is today so central to the average person's sense of identity. During the second decade of this century the expansion of market relations into new spheres of social life generated major shifts in the cultural outlook for thousands of young Americans. This was the product of a deliberate attempt to equate consumption and the satisfaction of prefabricated desires with freedom and youthful rebellion, thereby facilitating the production of new conceptions of personal identity which were almost completely dependent upon the possession of status commodities. As cultural historian Stuart...
Organizers said both Harvard and Saks will benefit from the exposure afforded by the show. Reporters from The New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Cambidge TAB, M magazine, a student newspaper from Paris, and Andy Warhol's personal photographer from Interview magazine, all paid homage to this Harvard fashion first...
...only person who ever took fashion, which is frivolous and elitist, and gave it credibility," Yaffe said, adding that she never takes part in a show that doesn't benefit a charity...
Hoppe called the event "a major success" but said he doesn't expect to participate in any future fashion shows...