you Know Georg Simmel? Recently, I had to think of him. Namely, when a pair of Buffalo shoes in sawn-off, flared trousers on me. “Desolate, horrible!” I grumbled inwardly, ashamed of my conservatism, and asked me if I have not missed something.

The German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel, in his Text “philosophy of fashion” of 1905 with Trends, fashion victims and the Motivation to wear ugly dresses. Read and see for yourself how he finds all of this a statement.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 18.04.2019, 13:10 PM