A nossa diferença é a criatividade!: a configuração do setor industrial de moda em Cianorte/Pr

Abstract

This dissertation presents a study on the configuration of the fashion industrial sector in the city of Cianorte/PR, Brazil, from the 21st century, questioning especially the practices of the agents acting in this specific context: sewers, entrepreneurs and designers. The objectives are: to understand this configuration through the reflection on the spaces, actions and relations of the agents involved with the industrial sector of fashion in the city, analyzing how a clothing sector was formed at first and later a fashion sector in the referred city; to realize how the listed agents define and conceive the fashion of the city in the 21st century; and to point what are the practices, strategies, representations, relations, negotiations and disputes that occur in the productive sector of fashion in Cianorte, linking agents to the social and symbolic space. Two hypotheses were built, examined and proven in the course of the research: the first indicated that the fashion sector of Cianorte was constituted from the professionalization, ie, from the insertion in industries of professionals trained in fashion higher education courses, which occurs from the first years of the 21st century; the second one unveiled that the position of the subjects in the fashion sector of Cianorte is related to their practices, strategies and representations, guided mainly by the symbolic capital present in relations. The concepts of field, habitus and symbolic power, by Pierre Bourdieu, were used as theoretical framework, above all, and as methodological approach the bibliographic research and the field research, which consisted the use of the ' participating observation' technique in a fashion industry, the Beeight group, were used besides data collection and interviews with agents of the sector. Analyses revealed tensions between the researched agents, observed in disputes in search of legitimation of power and of the fashion creator status. The three researched agents use strategies, representations and classification systems in support of the distinction, which is the generator principle of the practices, since it is through it that they aim to take positions not yet occupied. The sector, while field, was established supported in three fundamental processes: autonomy, specialization and professionalization, wherein the role of fashion superior courses in the city is relevant. In the speeches there is the objective to consolidate the city as fashion producer and no longer as clothing producer, which is perceived as a value. The cultural capital allied to the speech on creativity and art is perceived as important in the configuration of the disputes that are internal and external to the field, even though, many times, they are subjected to economic junctures, to profit-related ones or to relations of kinship.