The empowerment of the new chav? Aesthetics ans sociology of fashion

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Sílvia Rosés Castellsaguer
Magda Polo Pujadas

Abstract

The chav is a pejorative and stigmatizing sociocultural label, which the female public fought (until very recently) not to have. However, and for some time now, the tables have turned. Starting in the second decade of the second millennium, there is a growing taste for the aesthetic and experiential imaginary of the chav cultural system. This has positioned itself as a powerful trend-generating focus, followed from high fashion to large clothing chains, and, to a certain extent, the chav has emerged as a paradigm of female empowerment, imitated by great references in current music. But, what have been the factors of change of this tendency? What consequences have been the resulting for the world of fashion? And, above all, what real impact has it had on the appreciation of the chav in society?

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Rosés Castellsaguer, S. ., & Polo Pujadas, M. (2022). The empowerment of the new chav? Aesthetics ans sociology of fashion. RECERCA. Revista De Pensament I Anàlisi, 27(2). https://doi.org/10.6035/recerca.6230
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Sílvia Rosés Castellsaguer, BAU Centre Universitari de Disseny

Doctora por la Universitat de Barcelona. Acreditada como lectora por la AQU. Profesora de Historia del diseño e historia de la moda en BAU y de historia del arte en La Massana.

Magda Polo Pujadas, Universidad de Barcelona

Magda Polo Pujadas obtained a PhD at the University of Barcelona in 1997 in Philosophy with a dissertation on Philosophy of music: pure and programm music in Romanticism. She is professor of Philosophy of music and History of music of the History of Art Department at the University of Barcelona and collaborates with different master programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Universidad Ramon Llull...She is a member of different research groups: Música, tecnología y pensamiento en los siglos XIX y XX (Universitat de Barcelona), Arte, arquitectura y nuevas materialidades (Uiversitat de Barcelona, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya), Reception (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares), ACIS & Galatea (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Athena Musica-Gruppo di Studio di Estetica musicale e Filosofia della Musica ( Università di Bologna). His current research covers Aesthetic of music, History of music, and Philosophy of music in XVIII, XIX, XX and XXI centuries.

She is member of:
Seyta (Sociedad Española de Estética y Teoría del arte) http://seyta.org/ and XXX
ESA (The European Society for Aesthetcis) http://www.eurosa.org/
SEDEM (Sociedad Española e Musicología) https://www.sedem.es/es/portada.asp
AELC (https://www.escriptors.cat/)

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