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Originally Posted by LaBelleDameSansMerci
Making fashion is a creative endeavour. Picking fashion is an expressive one.
And yes, I agree that fashion is not High Art. I, at least, think of High Art as being inherently useless, which fashion is not. I don't mean useless in that it can't carry a message or give us pleasure or beautify the world, but it's not something like food or transportation or shelter or social things.
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You have a point about its material uselessness to the individual, but it does more than merely give pleasure to societies. It's often a vehicle for social change (look at the influence of the Beats on youth culture, including the sexual revolution - while they weren't single-handedly responsible for it, the lineage of values that they gave birth to had a very substantial effect). The novel Black Beauty advanced concerns about animal welfare in public consciousness more effectively than any political movement of its time. Not to mention that, if we view art as an organized response to the world, it encompasses philosopical works such as Rights of Man, which influenced social change to a considerable degree.