“A definitive perspective on fashion follows solely from the consideration that to each generation the one immediately preceding it seems the most radical anti-aphrodisiac imaginable.” --Walter Benjamin, Arcades Project Budapest in midsummer. Hundred-degree days in the dry heat of the Carpathian basin. The sun like a hammer by early afternoon. My wife and I had made the journey here for the past three years to visit friends I’d made while studying at a local university. We met a few of them...