Levi-Strauss
Blue jeans originator
Levi-Strauss refers to two distinct legacies.
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist whose structural analysis of myth, kinship, and culture shaped twentieth-century social science.
Separately, Levi Strauss & Co. is the American company founded by Levi Strauss in 1853, famous for inventing blue jeans.
The jeans are often called Levi's: He wore his favorite pair of Levi's.
structuralism
Analysis through underlying systems
totemism · bricolage · culture · nature · raw · cooked · incest taboo · symbolic · ritual · indigenous
jeans
Casual denim trousers
- 501Original riveted denim trousers
- blue jeansCasual denim trousers
- rivetsPermanent metal fasteners
denim · San Francisco · gold rush · workwear · copper · patent · miners · overalls · indigo · selvedge
- French ThinkersDescartes, Sartre, Foucault, Voltaire, Rousseau
- French ThoughtDescartes, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, Camus
- structuralismstructuralism, structural analysis, signifier, signified, signs
- StructuralistsGenette
- mythologyZeus, Apollo, Athena, Poseidon, Odin
- Compound SurnamesBaden-Powell, Day-Lewis, Saint-Laurent
Levi-StraussJean-Paul Sartre
"Nausea" penned him
existentialism · anti-foundationalism · post-structuralism · historicism · nominalism