" This assertion that fashion becomes a ' vector of our presence ' is important. Jukka Gronow ( in his analysis of George Simmel's seminal works on fashion ) identifies that " ...fashion is a societal formation always combining two opposite forces. It is a socially acceptable and safe way to distinguish oneself from others and, at the same time, it satisfies the individual's need for social adaptation and imitation. Fashion helps to solve - at least provisionally - the central problem of the philosophy of life, also expressed in the antinomy of taste as formulated by Kant. It teaches the modern man how a person can be a homogeneous part of a social mass without losing his individuality, or how he can both stick to his own private taste and expect others - who recognizably also have a taste of their own - to share it. Fashion helps to overcome the distance between an individual and his society... " Humanity is punctuated with seemingly intractable dilemmas. We are individuals- who each have an unwavering sense of 'self'- but who must fundamentally exist as a group. We are part of nature, but make our every assertion as a species an act of rebellion against it. Fashion in this context is both a manifestation and assertion of human agency, in a system that would see agency as being superfluous to our existence. Culture does not exist apart from humanity... it is something we create. It may take the form of art,