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Fashion is not just about trends. it's about political history. you can trace it from the ancient romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.
-Daphne Guinness
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Fashion Is Not Just About Trends. It's

Daphne Guinness
Fashion is not just about trends. it's about political history. you can trace it from the ancient romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.
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Fashion is not just about trends. it's about political history. you can trace it from the ancient romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics. at the end of the roman era, there was this whole move against togas, because that was the signifier of the roman empire. in the same way, the '60s were a reaction against the '50s and so on. but now we've been feeding on a sort of cadaver. at the moment, we're just endlessly recycling the past.
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People are storytelling creatures. we like stories that go somewhere, and therefore we like trends - because trends are things that either get better or get worse, so we can either rejoice or lament. but we mistakenly depict many things as trends moving in some direction. we take the "full house" of variation in a system and try to represent it as a single number, when in fact what we should be doing is studying the variation as it expands and contracts. if you look at the history of the variation in all its complexity, then you see there's no trend.
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If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. you will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. you will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. you will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
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The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. this is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why i hate them. they want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. but that is only dabbling. what is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.
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In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... on the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.
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No single man makes history. history cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. wars and revolutions, kings and robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. but revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. they overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.
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