...may become a conscious project. He sees a calculating hedonism developing in the twentieth century: Rather than unreflexively adopting a lifestyle, through...with his clothes, but with his home, furnishings, decoration, car and other activities which are to be read and classified in terms of the presence and...

...middle classes are distinguished by their pursuit of expressive and liberated lifestyles. He claims: Rather than unreflexively adopting a lifestyle, through...dispositions they design together into a lifestyle. (1991: 86) They have a very strong commitment to fashion, that is, to rapid and playful transformation...

...penchant for the unconventional — identify him as one of 'the new heroes of consumer culture [who] make lifestyle a life project and display their individuality...and bodily dispositions they design together into a lifestyle.'33 How do viewers, living in contexts far removed from the lifestyles and identities projected...

...capital), the suburban middle class presently derives its superior sense of self (social capital) from the assemblage of 'goods, clothes, practices, experiences,...and bodily dispositions they design together into a lifestyle'.74 This focus on the aesthetic rendered suburban existence an effect of consumer taste,...

...symbol processors through the coherent and meaningful deployment of 'economies' of commodity objects: Rather than unreflexively adopting a lifestyle, through...with his clothes, but with his home, furnishings, decoration, car and other activities which are to be read in terms of the presence and absence of taste...

...'aestheticization of everyday life'. These changes can be seen to signal a change in consumer culture: Rather than unreflexively adopting a lifestyle, through...dispositions they design together into a lifestyle. (Featherstone 1991a: 86) Like some of the changes associated with post-Fordism, Featherstone's discussion...

...personal preference. This view is supported by Featherstone who suggests that postmodern individuals 'display their individuality and sense of style in...assemblage of goods, clothes, practices, experiences, appearances and bodily dispositions which they design together into a lifestyle' (1991: 86). It follows,...

...the coherent and meaningful deployment of symbols that exist within 'economies' of commodity objects: Rather than unreflexively adopting a lifestyle, through...with his clothes, but with his home, furnishings, decoration, car and other activities which are to be read in terms of the presence and absence of taste....