Charles Baudelaire - Various Quotations

‘Fashion is the essence of modernity, of the transient, the fleeting, the contingent.’ (p.403; quoted in Jennifer Wicke',"Who’s She When She’s at Home?": Molly Bloom and the Work of Consumption’, in Molly Blooms: A Polylogue on "Penelope" and Cultural Studies, ed. Richard Pearce, Wisconsin UP 1994, p.187.)