Fashion always occupies the dividing-line between the past and the future, and consequently conveys a stronger feeling of the present, at least while it is at its height, than most other phenomena. What we call the present is usually nothing more than a combination of a fragment of the past with a fragment of the future.

DEFINE: Reframes the 'present' as merely a combination of past and future fragments, a conceptual clarification of temporality.

XREF: Echoes theories of temporal perception and Simmel's broader social analysis of fashion as a liminal cultural phenomenon.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 723