Culture carries both stable and variable components, tradition and progress. A modern man is also situated between persistence and variability as his life is a process of transformation. Such a situation is not easy for him. Fashion as an aesthetic phenomenon, cultural practice and a way of participating in this culture gives the modern man at least the pretence of abolishing the conflict. The conflict which is not only between persistence and variability but also the feeling of community and individuality or tradition and progress. It creates the ground to reconciliation. Fashion performs different functions but nowadays one of the most significant seems to be the aesthetic one which is connecting people but not enslaving them.
The city, one of the most polysemous spaces is perpetually penetrated by various practises, creative actions, multidimensional activity, artistic creations including also design practises. The city is a peculiar heterotopia, where also through design practices all that is practical penetrate with what is aesthetical, science with art, information with interpretation. Design practices serve integration of the things' world with the man's life. These are somehow a synonym of the human environment, which is generated by people and for people - artefactual environment. Design has an ability to tangle and involve people with the surrounding reality in a manner that they do not only contemplate or consume ambient things, but live with what is material and immaterial in close symbiosis.
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