
ModaPalavra, Florianópolis, V. 17, N. 41, p. 04--15, jan/jun. 2024
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ModaPalavra e-periódico /  Dossiê Moda e Emoções na Cultura do Consumo                                  
DOSSIER EDITION - JANUARY/2024
Dossier Fashion and Emotions in Consumer Culture
Studies  on  consumption  show  us  that,  more  than  to 
meet needs and even though this is a practice regulated by the 
imperative dynamics of the market, consuming is a constitutive, 
concrete, symbolic, and ritualistic part of contemporary lifestyles. 
Consumption directly implies the uses, accesses, or interdictions 
to possible citizenships and the sensitive ways of living. Through 
it, social hierarchies and imaginaries are demarcated, and 
subjects  and  collectivities  are  decoded  into  values  (economic 
and moral).
This process tends to result in the unequal distribution of 
access to goods, territories, resources, and services involving the 
elaboration of emotions, which are at the same time embodied 
and disseminated in the micropolitics of everyday life. If, on one 
hand, the fashion we consume – or that consumes us – makes 
us unique, on the other, there is a social and collective process 
oriented by the multiple conditions of existence and by the 
dynamism of social life in fashion systems. Personas, images, 
narratives, signatures, iconographies, garments, fabrics, colors, 
textures, cuts, patterns, trends, shapes, ornaments, makeup, 
perfumery, shoes, etc., all this techno-emotional apparatus that 
has a social trajectory that individualizes and collectivizes us, 
producing a complex phenomenon of sharing and recognition of 
emotions.
Therefore,  in  the  face  of  fashion,  we  become  sensitive 
subjects,  sharing  or  not  the  sensitivities  proposed.  When  we 
dress or are dressed – by the creative industry of fashion 
production – we touch the fabric, but in response, we are also 
touched by it. Fashion crosses through us, affects us, constitutes 
us,  awakens  senses  and  emotions  that  cannot  be  considered 
only manifestations of the self’s individuality in the conditions