{"id":1779,"date":"2011-09-28T07:30:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T14:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2011-10-03T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T03:03:46","slug":"the-wednesday-word-ulrich-lehmann-on-why-fashion-is-worthy-of-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/28\/the-wednesday-word-ulrich-lehmann-on-why-fashion-is-worthy-of-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wednesday Word: Ulrich Lehmann on why Fashion is worthy of study"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<figure style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phaidon.com\/agenda\/photography\/picture-galleries\/2010\/august\/17\/fashion-photography-erwin-blumenfeld\/?idx=8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/data.touchpuppet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Erwin_Blumenfeld6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erwin Blumenfeld, Audrey Hepburn (1952), New York Audrey Hepburn is  wearing a hat designed by Blumenfeld and made by Mister Fred, one of New  York&#39;s most talented milliners. Blumenfeld here uses a system of  mirrors showing the front and back of the hat and allowing infinite  repetition of the motif.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;To write about fashion, to discuss its impact and importance, always means to transform the fleeting and transitory into the statue-like and permanent, if only through black letters on a white sheet of paper. Fashion as a topic remains embroiled and disputed because of its alleged lack of substance&#8211;in artistic as well as metaphysical terms. The profound and eternal are considered worthy of intellectual analysis; what is transient and fugitie will nearly always be equated consciously or unconsciously with the facile and futile. Yet herein lies fashion&#8217;s most absorbing fascination: it challenges us to transpose transitoriness, also the hallmark of modernity, into a medium of high regard, while maintaining its distinct characteristics; to theorize and analyze, yet not to petrify.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Ulrich Lehman in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0262621711\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0262621711\">Tigerspring: Fashion in Modernity<\/a> <\/em>(MIT Press, 2000)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The profund and eternal are considered worthy of intellectual analysis.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}