Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publish date: 12/01/2000
The stage for this interplay between intellectual concept and sartorial expression is Parisian society from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Lehmann focuses on a core of pivotal individuals, beginning with Charles Baudelaire in the 1850s, continuing with Stephane Mallarme and Georg Simmel, and arriving at Walter Benjamin, Louis Aragon, and Andre Breton almost a century later. The book's title comes from Benjamin's use of the German word Tigersprung (tiger's leap) to describe fashion's leap into the past to create an ever-changing present. Lehmann focuses in particular on Benjamin's Arcades Project as an unfinished work on the philosophy of fashion. He also looks at the role of fashion in the work of the Dadaists and surrealists, who used clothes and accessories as simulacra for the human body and mind.
Fashion, according to Lehmann, does not just reflect social change but is a social force in its own right. In creating the perfect expression of thecontemporary spirit -- by drawing on the past -- fashion excels at anticipating things to come.
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