A talk with Ulinka Rublack

In BlogSeptember 8th, 2014

In April I discussed Matthäus Schwarz, male dress, and the changing nature of fashion with Ulinka Rublack. Part of that conversation is documented on the Tumblr blog The First Book of Fashion.

Matthäus Schwarz

Image from Matthäus Schwarz, Book of Clothes, 67 from the 1704 copy in The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover

I have a friend who asks, “Why can’t something just look good forever, if it looks good now?” And I answer, “But it just can’t. It looks good in a certain moment.” And maybe it’ll look good at another moment. But in between there will just be plenty of moments where it just looks wrong. That is just built into the changing nature of fashion.

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