New number received from: REVISTA DE OCCIDENTE (No. 366. November 2011)
Summary of this issue:
*Fashion: the power of appearances (Presentation). Jorge Lozano
* Dialogue between fashion and death. Giacomo Leopardi
*The sex-appeal of the inorganic. Walter Benjamin
* Fashion and modernity. Chrales Baudelaire
* Frivolities of déjà-vu. Jean Baudrillard
*I remember a fashion. Robert Musil
*From head to toe. Adolf Loos
* The dress as an expression of pecuniary culture. Thorstein Veblen
* Fashion philosophy. George Simmel
*Change in generations. Jose Ortega y Gasset
*The barrier and the level. Edmond Goblot
* Fashion, science and time. Roland Barthes
* Fashion is always semiotic. Yuri Lotman
*Competition and inflation. E. H. Gombrich
* Cutting is thinking. German Celant
*How Gargantua dressed. Francois Rabelais
* Treaty of elegant life. Honore de Balzac
* The world of dresses. Thomas Carlyle
*The first veils. Anatole France
*Venice is a dress. Marcel Proust
*Fortuny: the fold and the labyrinth. Jorge Lozano
*Coco Chanel's total look. Jean-Marie Floch
*Balenciaga. Cecil Beaton
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