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of the grande dame. Yet fashion is in much steadier, much more precise contact
with the coming thing, thanks to the incomparable nose which the feminine
collective has for what lies waiting in the future. Each season brings, in its newest
creations, various secret signals of things to come. Whoever understands how to
read these semaphores would know in advance not only about new currents in
the arts but also about new legal codes, wars, and revolutions. 3 of the grande dame. Ye t fashion is in much steadier, much more precise contact
with the coming thing, thanks to the incomparable nose which the feminine
collective has for what lies waiting in the future. Each season brings, in its newest
creations, various secret signals of things to come. Whoever understands how to
read these semaphores would know in advance not only about new currents in
the arts but also about new legal codes, wars, and revolutions.3-Here, -Here, surely,
lies the greatest charm of of fashion, but also the difficnlty of making the charming charming
fruitful. [B1a,lJ
"Whether you translate Russian fairy tales, Swedish family sagas, or English
picaresque novels-you will always come back in the end, when it is a question of
setting the tone for the masses, to France, not because it is always the truth but
because it will always be be the fashion:' , pp. 227-228. Each time, what sets the tone is without doubt the
newest, but only where it emerges in the medium of the oldest, the longest past,
the most ingrained. Tills spectacle, the unique self-construction of the newest in
the medium of what has been, mal