Plurality in the field of fashion is not least a product of the enormous amount of visual information that bombards us every day. Susan Sontag claims that a society becomes modern when one of its main activities is to produce and consume images. In that case, we are close to living in the most modern of all possible worlds. All of us have become ‘image junkies’, as Sontag puts it. According to Hal Foster, we are unable to escape the logic of the image, because images both create a loss of reality and at the same time give us something – namely new images – that enable us to soften … Continue reading Lars Svendsen