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WatchDossier Issue 24 - 2026

History In, Nature Out

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Sergio Galanti
Aug 02, 2026
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This issue assembles itself around a single move. It is old — Barthes named it in 1957 — and it is everywhere in the vitrine: take something decided, priced, and contingent, and let it harden into essence, into something that simply is. A colourway becomes a season. A bankruptcy becomes continuity. A bought-in tourbillon becomes native genius. History i…

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