… if we want to enjoy fashions thoroughly, we must not look on them as dead things; we might as well admire a lot of clothes hung up, limp and iert, like the skin of St BArtholomew, in the cupboard of a second-hand-clothes dealer. They must be pictured as full of the life and vitality of the women who wore them. Only in that way can we give them meaning and value. If therefore the aphorism ‘All fashions are charming’ offends you as being too absolute, say – and then you can be sure of making no mistake – all were legitimately charming in their day.
READER, modernizm, wearBaudelaire, Martin MargielaDecember 16, 2012





















































































