Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man a…

Rene Konig
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Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos. ✨ René König (1973). A la Mode: On the Social Psychology of Fashion
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