“Here perhaps is where we grasp the garment’s most poetic reality;
as a substitute for the body, the garment, by virtue of its weight, participates in (wo)man’s fundamental dreams, of the sky and the cave, of life’s sublimity and its entombment, of flight and sleep; it is a garments weight which makes it a wing or a shroud, seduction or authority.” ~Roland Barthes, The Fashion System
August 2012
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