Street Fashion in the Modern Urban Environment
This article describes the study of the appearance of a human in the aspect of the street fashion phenomenon. The author examines the development of this phenomenon in connection with the tendencies of fashion, as a moderator of integrative processes between human and urban environment via the appearance. Fashion is viewed by the author as a phenomenon that affects the formation of the external appearance of the human being exactly in the urban environment. Today, this process is controlled by fashion industry. Street fashion is analyzed by the author as a result of a merger of fashion and the urban environment, demonstrated in the person's appearance. As a significant area, the author specifies a city center, as a region, carrying all essential signs of the urban environment and considered by a person as a place of "socializing." Interaction of the human appearance and the urban environment is manifested in expression of socio-biological characteristics, such as gender and profession.