Gaze &Fashion

1.Why we love to gaze and be gazed ?2.Why women tend to be gazed ?

Study Question:YouLookGORGEOUSToday!

Mirror Stage

Q: How we identify ourselves with ourselves?

Ans: To recognize ourselves, we have to internalize the gaze from the field of the other.

The power of gaze

•Primary Narcissism: love to be gazed• Loss of Autonomy: fear to

be gazed

The Masculine Renunciation Nowadays Phenomenon: Female dresses is more ornamental than

the male ones.Time: Industrial Revolution in 18th centuryBefore 18th century: Sartorial ExtravaganceAfter 18th century: Sartorial Sobriety

WHY?

Social Perspective: wife’s responsibilityPsychological Perspective: inhibit the narcissistic and exhibitionistic desires1. sublimation into professional ‘showing off’ 2.reversal into scopophilia3.male identification with woman-as-spectacle

The Male Gaze• Voyeurism vs. Exhibitionism• scopophilia ＋ women-as-spectacle ＝

the male gaze• Result: Women’s self-awareness is

disciplined by the male gaze.

ConclusionFinding: Women are not born to be gazed

at and men are not born to gaze others, either.

Problem: Males can’t adorn themselves Female can’t gaze at the maleSolution: This restriction is little by little

loose in pop-music.