Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? – Roland Barthes
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes

Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? – Roland Barthes
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, whats left of them. – Roland Barthes
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle