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Fashion, Originality and Style: an Ethnographic Probe into a Fashion Atelier
Oulová, Jana ; Halbich, Marek (advisor) ; Josephy, Michal (referee)
The thesis "Fashion, Originality and Style: an Ethnographic Probe into a Fashion Atelier" deals with the phenomenon of fashion from the perspective of anthropology and sociology. It's based on the key theoretical approaches that view fashion as a marker of class and competition of wealth, but also as an expression of one's individuality. The thesis also pays attention to the connections between fashion and cultural environment, and the analysis of fashion in the contexts of material culture studies and the shifting perception of the fashion designer and his work. The work on this thesis also included a field research in the fashion atelier of Ivana Follová, a Czech fashion designer. In the course of several months, the daily operations of the atelier were observed together with the influences affecting the production of fashion goods, and the making of designs. Attention was also paid to the regular customers who frequent the fashion atelier and use its services. The research combined collecting data from participant observations and half-structured interviews. The aim of the study was to find out what principles the fashion industry is based on with a special focus on tailor-made fashion, but also to describe the customers of the atelier and their motives for the need of fashion products.
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On Terrible Beauty: Depression as an impairment of Aesthetic Perception.
Josephy, Michal ; Komárek, Stanislav (advisor) ; Pěničková, Daniela (referee)
This case study is focused on general - anthropological description of experience and behavior of a case of a man living in the phases ranging from medium to major depression with a regard for the considered etiological model of depression as "an impairment of aesthetic perception". Research showed that these disorders are not limited only to hedonic aesthetics of pleasure/displeasure arising from anhedonia as one of the main symptoms of depression. It indicates that it is possible to identify them for instance in language, visual perception, bodily experiences, as well as in the development and structure of the ego. The key importance of an unimpaired ability to perceive beauty and its role in life was successfully recorded within a deviant case On Terrible Beauty.
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Fashion, Originality and Style: an Ethnographic Probe into a Fashion Atelier
Oulová, Jana ; Halbich, Marek (advisor) ; Josephy, Michal (referee)
The thesis "Fashion, Originality and Style: an Ethnographic Probe into a Fashion Atelier" deals with the phenomenon of fashion from the perspective of anthropology and sociology. It's based on the key theoretical approaches that view fashion as a marker of class and competition of wealth, but also as an expression of one's individuality. The thesis also pays attention to the connections between fashion and cultural environment, and the analysis of fashion in the contexts of material culture studies and the shifting perception of the fashion designer and his work. The work on this thesis also included a field research in the fashion atelier of Ivana Follová, a Czech fashion designer. In the course of several months, the daily operations of the atelier were observed together with the influences affecting the production of fashion goods, and the making of designs. Attention was also paid to the regular customers who frequent the fashion atelier and use its services. The research combined collecting data from participant observations and half-structured interviews. The aim of the study was to find out what principles the fashion industry is based on with a special focus on tailor-made fashion, but also to describe the customers of the atelier and their motives for the need of fashion products.
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