Sep 4, 2024 12:15 PM
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Plus Size fashion and its meaning effects: signs of inclusion or segregation?

Plus Size fashion and its meaning effects: signs of inclusion or segregation?

Panel:
[PA] Fashion, Semiotics and Reality: How Fashion Designs Gender Realities? (José María Paz Gago, Bianca Terracciano, Maya Marx Starque, Giulia Adriana Ceriani, Román Padín, Janiene Santos, Mirela Perez, Jacqueline Ausier, André Peruzzo, Andréia Meneguete)
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Speaker:
Jacqueline Ausier
Universidade de São Paulo
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This abstract presents a research in its initial stage, which aims to investigate whether, bydeveloping subsidiary brands for the sale of plus size clothing, Brazilian retailers Renner(creator of Ashua) and C&A (creator of Mindse7) promote the integration of this public orcontribute to the stigmas that affect fat people, seeking to reflect on a practice that mayrepresent a type of symbolic violence (Bourdieu, 1997) for a relevant number of theBrazilian citzens. Therefore, the present work seeks to introduce and encourage theproposed debate from a specific perspective, which proposes the following questions: whatare the effects of meaning engendered in the development of the Mindse7 and Ashuabrands? Are these signs of inclusion or segregation? To elucidate these questions, theoriginal research suggests the application of Peircean semiotics and its fundamentalcategories (Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness) in the following brand elements: visualidentity and branding, main advertising campaigns designed, online shopping experienceand content published in the digital platform Instagram. For this specific work, however,Ashua’s Autumn-Winter 2024 campaign and the last two ‘drops’ of March 2024 launches byMindse7 were selected for analysis, propagated primarily through digital media. Firstimpressions point to the need for a comparison between the different approaches on each brand, but they also infer that both reproduce stigmas commonly present in the marketing of larger sizes,such as neutral colors, clothes more discreet and modest and the absence of real bodies insome of the images shown.

Location:
3.146 room, WLS (Dobra 55 street)

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02
September
9:30
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10:30
Location:
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
Congress events
Opening Ceremony

September 2, 2024
Congress events
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
02
September
10:30
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11:30
Location:
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
From Signs of Language to Semioses of Life: Paradigms and Turns in Global Semiotics

September 2, 2024
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
02
September
11:30
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12:15
Location:
Australia Hall, WLS (Dobra 55 street)
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Coffee break [catering]

September 2, 2024
Catering
Australia Hall, WLS (Dobra 55 street)
Jacqueline Ausier