Column published in the counter of El Mundo, 40 days after the death of Threshold.
Dandyism is not a question of ties if no more than good noses, not to start talking about genital apparatus. Some think that the dandy is recognized at first sight for this elegance in the extreme, almost fell on his face as tacky. But even if we try to deceive and trivialize this vital attitude that has so much to do with appearance, dandyism sometimes goes inside. It is a matter of courage, a courage that goes beyond putting on a pair of paramecia or carrying white suits and pink shirts, which has merit.
few days ago, Savater, in his speech on being awarded the prize "Columnist of The World", it said on the roof of this newspaper: "The challenge is to write things that contradict one knows who is reading, it is difficult be one of us and say that you are not sure to be one of us. " And really dandyism about that. Of these criticisms "Tocapelotas" as essential for society to progress.
already did Thomas Carlyle in "Sartor Resartus" (1833) where, apparently addled perspective (an alleged history of fashion), gave an ironic repasito the English society of the time, including dandies, who was clear that they were to read and to recognize as part of their gang.
then did more or less courage, more or less dressed, some thousand times appointed paradigm of dandyism. I mean Byron, Duchamp, Larra, Wilde, Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe and, of course, Threshold, if not, what paint here talking about this? But they were also his dandies way less recurring and other artists I can think of Dorothy Parker and Patti Smith, which proved to have a pair of ovaries enough to carry the dandyism to its ultimate consequences. A road not comfortable and I do not mean high heels that Parker would not go away even to go to bed, but fetish talk at another time.
The modern dandy has only a little to do with the superficial Brummel and, by definition, is a classless, stateless person, an outsider, a maverick. If, as Patti Smith, is left into the Mount Olympus of high culture, go and loose it the first thing that attracted him to Rimbaud was how good he was, or whether, in the case of Wolfe, the "yuppies " You are invited to their parties because it is the fashion writer goes and writes a book in which they appear as pathetic beings, capable of throwing a party to honor the fashion writer.
And that has its risks, which are not so bad, because basically, the dandy, although it seems the social being par excellence, has much of a misanthrope. In any case, critics have it easy. There is only referring to his alleged attack frivolity. Based on this strange theory (as seated) of someone well dressed they can build a valid work and have a profound speech. But not even stop, because the opponent usually have another argument that considers the smell test: the work of dude is funny. And he is very clear: beauty is at odds with intelligence and depth must be, by nose (not to end up talking about genital apparatus), soporific.
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