• Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.

    Valerie Steele: Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.
    Valerie Steele (2005). “Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion”, Charles Scribners Sons/Reference