Oscar Wilde once wrote, ‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months.’ And yet it serves to make us beautiful, or at least make us feel beautiful. In Dress Code Mari Grinde Arntzen asks how and why this is - how we can be enthralled by the fashion world, and at the same time appalled by the politics and practices of the garment industry? This book questions why we h ave such a love-hate relation ship with fashion.