Is There a Global Super Fashion?

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i was wondering if you had any thoughts on the evolution of fashion. It seems like a language, has much stronger network effects than fashion does. And so as we go forward and culture continues to a conjoin across different continents, are we heading towards a global super fashion? i don't knowd it is surprising why there's such a reduction in diversity of fashion. There's also aa thurning over time.

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