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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.

The new is not a fashion, it is a value.

Roland Barthes
Fashion, Novelty, Values

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

Roland Barthes
Fashion, Past, Oppression
Roland Barthes (1983). “Systeme de la Mode”, p.112, Univ of California Press

Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.

Roland Barthes
Fashion, Past, Doe
Roland Barthes (1983). “Systeme de la Mode”, p.128, Univ of California Press

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